A 4K UHD movie
25 GBFibreTel 10 Gbps~20 seconds
FibreTel 1 Gbps~3½ minutes
Typical cable~45 minutes
Fibre Internet · 10 Gbps
10 Gbps is stupid fast. Here’s what you actually get.
Ten gigabits of symmetric fibre is the difference between a household where someone's always complaining about the WiFi and one where nobody ever thinks about it.
10↓ / 10↑Gbps symmetricNo shared coax, no upload throttle
In real units
Not a speed test. A grocery list.
Gigabits per second means nothing until you translate it into stuff you’d actually do on a Tuesday. These are the rough numbers FibreTel 10 Gbps hits on a modern device that can keep up.
A AAA console game
100 GBFibreTel 10 Gbps~1½ minutes
FibreTel 1 Gbps~14 minutes
Typical cable3 hours
Your entire iPhoto library
250 GBFibreTel 10 Gbps~3½ minutes
FibreTel 1 Gbps35 minutes
Typical cable~7½ hours
Back up a 1 TB NAS
1,024 GBFibreTel 10 Gbps~14 minutes
FibreTel 1 Gbps~2½ hours
Typical cable~30 hours
A Linux ISO, just because
4 GBFibreTel 10 Gbps~3 seconds
FibreTel 1 Gbps~35 seconds
Typical cable~8 minutes
Several million cat videos
∞FibreTel 10 GbpsSimultaneously
FibreTel 1 GbpsMostly
Typical cableYou’d have questions
Numbers are calculated at the line rate (1.25 GB/s wire speed for 10 Gbps, 125 MB/s for 1 Gbps, ~12.5 MB/s for a typical cable connection with best-case download). Actual speeds depend on the server you’re pulling from, your device, and the WiFi 7 router positioning. See the honest-limits section below.
Everyone at once
The apartment where nobody fights over the WiFi.
Where 10 Gbps earns its keep is when the whole household is loud at the same time. There's so much room that every device feels like it has its own line.
Remote work setup
VPN to the office, three cloud-synced drives, a Zoom meeting, a second screen streaming a background podcast. Uploads aren't jittery because upload is symmetrical.
4K streaming, all day
Everyone in the living room on their own screen — Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, a game in cloud mode. 25 Mbps per stream × 4 is 100 Mbps. You've used 1% of the line.
Console + cloud gaming
PS5 or Xbox downloading a patch, while someone else is on GeForce Now. Patch finishes fast, latency stays low, everyone's happy.
Photographer offloading a shoot
RAW files backing up to Backblaze while you keep working. 10 Gbps symmetric upload means this actually happens fast — not the 100 Mbps trickle you get on cable.
Symmetric means symmetric
10 Gbps down is impressive. 10 Gbps up is where things get weird.
Big-ISP “gigabit” plans are usually 1 Gbps down, a fifth of that up, shared with your neighbours. 10 Gbps symmetric on your own strand of glass changes what’s possible.
Cloud backup that finishes
Offsite backup of a TB-scale photo or video library stops being an overnight chore.
Live streaming without compromise
Push 4K60 at full bitrate to Twitch or YouTube without throttling yourself.
Remote desktop that feels local
GPU workstation in a closet, client laptop on the couch. 10 Gbps up closes the latency gap.
WiFi 7 included
10 Gbps over the wire is wasted on a WiFi 5 router.
Every FibreTel 10 Gbps install ships with our flagship tri-band WiFi 7 router. WiFi 7 is the first standard that can actually move multi-gigabit traffic over the air, and it’s the reason the 10 Gbps plan includes the big one instead of charging extra. An older WiFi 5 or WiFi 6 router would throttle everything to a fraction of what the line supports.
The real apartment-building trick is the 6 GHz band. It’s basically empty in most downtown towers because your neighbours’ older routers can’t reach it. WiFi 7 + 6 GHz turns the crowded 2.4 / 5 GHz spectrum into someone else’s problem.
Honest limits
Things 10 Gbps can’t do for you.
We’d rather set honest expectations now than have you run a speed test on a six-year-old laptop and conclude we’re lying. Here’s what a 10 Gbps plan won’t magically do.
Make Netflix 400× sharper
Most streaming services cap at ~25 Mbps per stream. A faster line doesn't make the video better. It makes four of them work simultaneously without hiccups.
Upgrade your computer for you
A desktop with a 10G port will genuinely fly. Most laptops and phones top out lower — that's their spec, not the line's. Either way, the whole household gets full speed at once.
Rescue a 2018 laptop with WiFi 5
An older device plugged into a WiFi 7 router still runs at whatever its chipset supports. Plug the old one in with an Ethernet cable if you want the full boost.
Fix a server that’s slow
If the far end of your connection can't push data any faster than 100 Mbps, that's your ceiling — not the local ISP. This isn't a FibreTel problem, it's physics.
Apartments, specifically
10 Gbps is more dramatic in a condo tower than a house.
Downtown apartment buildings have dozens of WiFi networks overlapping on every floor. The 2.4 and 5 GHz bands are packed — your neighbours’ routers are literally stepping on your signal. That’s the real bottleneck for most high-rise apartments, not the internet plan.
WiFi 7 + the 6 GHz band flips that. Very few existing routers can reach 6 GHz, so the band is empty — you get the spectrum to yourself. Combined with a 10 Gbps symmetric backhaul, an apartment on FibreTel 10 Gbps often feels faster than a suburban house on a different ISP’s gigabit plan, because the air between your device and the router isn’t a fight anymore.
FAQ
Things people actually ask
Will I notice a difference over 1 Gbps?
Depends on how your household uses the internet. One person on one device, mostly streaming — honestly, probably not. A 4-person apartment with work-from-home, gaming, cloud backups, and everyone on their own devices — absolutely, and the 'nobody complaining about the WiFi' outcome is the main win. The 10 Gbps tier is the right answer when bandwidth contention is your actual pain point, not raw peak speed.
Can my computer even use 10 Gbps?
Over WiFi 7 on a modern laptop you can get a few Gbps in real-world conditions. Over a wired 2.5 Gbps port (which the WiFi 7 router has), you'll hit 2.5 Gbps. Over a 10 Gbps NIC (desktop with a PCIe card), you can actually hit the full line rate. Most households never need to do that — the value comes from splitting 10 Gbps across many devices.
Is this shared with my neighbours?
No. We run a dedicated strand of fibre from our core to your suite — your own glass, not a coax tap or shared line. You'll see the full rated speed regardless of what your neighbours are doing.
Do I need a new computer to take advantage of it?
Nope. Your old computer will run at whatever its chipset supports, and you'll still see a massive improvement over a cable connection because the line has so much headroom that everything else on the network stops fighting for bandwidth. New devices added to the household automatically get WiFi 7 speeds when they support it.
Is the WiFi 7 router really included?
Yes, really. Included with the 10 Gbps plan at no rental fee, no 'activation' fee, no 'WiFi upgrade' fee. We ship it, a Tech Wizard installs it, you use it. If you want to use your own router, that's fine too — just let us know during install.
What if I upgrade to 10 Gbps later?
Just let us know in MyAccount. The plan swap needs a Tech Wizard visit because we swap the dual-band router for the flagship tri-band one, but there's no contract, no install fee, no 'welcome back' form to fill out. Same address, new plan, same-week visit if the calendar allows.
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Ready for the full firehose?
Type your address and we'll tell you on the spot. Install usually happens within the week.