Currently millions of people in Spain connect to the Internet through fiber optics, something that has meant a great change with respect to the user experience when browsing the Internet and communicating with other people. Before the arrival of fiber optics, in Spain we used mostly ADSL2 +, although some users were lucky to have VDSL2 coverage, which gave them a little more speed over the telephone line. Today in this article we are going to talk about the benefits of having fiber optics, and why we should always buy a fiber and mobile Internet pack to save a lot of money.
Benefits of using fiber optics at home
Fiber optics in Spain has been a before and after in communications. Before we always had to connect to the Internet via ADSL2 +, with a maximum speed of 20Mbps download and 2.5Mbps upload if we enabled the popular Annex M. If you were lucky enough to have VDSL2, these speeds increased to 30Mbps download and 3.5Mbps upload, but in no case could you get symmetrical speeds (same download and upload speed). The speed achieved depended on the distance to the central, the state of the telephone wiring and also on inclement weather. We are sure that many of you, on rainy days, noticed how the Internet connection was slower, and we even had a cut in the connection due to a too low SNR, it was completely normal when using copper and not fiber optics.
When ADSL2 + or VDSL2 was contracted, you always contracted a speed “up to”, since, depending on the distance to the central and other factors, you could get the maximum speed or stay with less than half (which was the most normal). With the high-speed fiber optic connection this does not happen, when you hire a speed of, for example, 300Mbps symmetric, you have the guarantee that this speed will always reach you, thanks to the use of the GPON standard used by all operators currently. We must bear in mind that the fiber optic Internet connection every month is reaching more homes and more people, since the demand for the use of streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Disney + is on the rise, also work from home and even distance training, all due to confinement.
Other improvements in fiber optics with respect to the ADSL2 + and VDSL2 lines is the connection latency, now we will have a minimum latency, so it is clearly better for video calls, VoIP calls and even for online games. In addition, the jitter (the latency variation) has now also improved enormously, the most normal thing is to have a jitter of 0-1ms, something unthinkable with the ADSL2 + and VDSL2 lines, especially when we were very far from the central.
Other benefits of using fiber optics at home are that carriers provide higher-end routers than ADSL2 +, for obvious reasons. Therefore, when hiring fiber optics, the most normal thing is to have a router with Gigabit Ethernet ports and simultaneous dual-band WiFi, with the aim of providing the best possible performance to customers, regardless of whether they are connected via WiFi or cable.
Buy the fiber optic and mobile bundle together
Due to the high demand for fiber optics and also mobile telephony, the companies have decided to merge the two most popular services and offer fiber optic internet as well as mobile , being the operator Simyo one of the cheapest companies that offers this package, and its objective is to provide a fast Internet connection for a low-cost price. In addition, we must bear in mind that we can choose the mobile lines that we want to make the pack, another very important feature is that Simyo has a phone line configurator, being able to decide how many GB per month it will need, as well as the minutes. In this way, the packages are not “closed”, but rather allow the user to configure their offer to have one or more mobile lines, with a lot of data and / or with many minutes, in addition, we also have the possibility of having lines with only data just in case we just call.
The benefits of buying the fiber optic connection at home and the mobile phone together are obvious, we will have a lower joint price than if we bought it separately, we will have unified billing, we will not have a bill for the fiber optic on one side and the mobile for the other. In the event that you have a problem, either with the fiber optics or the mobile phone, we will call the same customer service number for help.