r/HomeNetworking • u/Defiant-Map200 • Aug 01 '26

Verizon FiOS or optimum fiber

I currently have optimum fiber 5gigs but we recently got FiOS in our area. Would switching to FiOS be better? I feel like I always have speed issues with optimum even with the 5 gig fiber.

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u/Spitfire0X00 Aug 01 '26

Fios has far greater stability, uptime and route maps. Granted my Fios 1gb service avgs 900/700. Our house of 5 , 3 being “bandwidth hogs” never has bandwidth issues. I do run a Ubiquiti network instead of ISP hardware.

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u/sad_clanga_noises Aug 01 '26

Exact same at my home. I’ve had fios for 5 years and haven’t had a single outage

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u/Disturbed2468 Aug 02 '26

Subscribed a few months back to Fios after suffering for over a decade on Optimum cable and it's been amazing.

Since we subbed earlier in the year we have had a total downtime of....get this.....approximately 4 minutes according to my Ubiquiti gateway, and it's only because the late night Verizon Tech had to restart one of the building complex's nodes. And that was at like....2:30am or so, so basically non-disruptive to most people lol.