Does Videotron have plans to upgrade their network to a Fiber network?

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Anonyme wrote:

I just switched from Videotron's Helix to Bell 1.5Gbps. The reason why I switched is because Bell made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Paying the same price for more bandwidth (I had 400mbps with Videotron), and 5 more channels for my tv.

 

Quite frankly, the speed is an overkill. I think anything above 1Gbps is an overkill considering most homes can't really benefit from those speeds. Videotron at some point had gigabit services but they stopped learn how offering it. I'm not sure why, as I've heard it works quite well. Where Videotron will always fail for me is the type of cable they use. I game a lot and Bell's FTTH gives me the best latency possible. Because of this, it's extremely difficult to switch back to cable.

 

I find it difficult to ever move back to Videotron (provided that Bell's prices don't increase too much) and have a 10ms-30ms disadvantage when gaming, in addition to not having gigabit bandwidth. 10ms-30ms doesn't seem like much time, but when you're playing fast paced games like Call of Duty, it most certainly matters. The extra bandwidth helps downloading large sized games quicker.

 

Does Videotron have any plans to upgrade their copper cable network to an FTTH fiber optic network sometime in the future?

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Many internet service providers are gradually expanding their fiber optic networks to provide faster and more reliable internet connections. Upgrading from copper cable to fiber optic infrastructure, such as FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home), can offer significant benefits in terms of speed and latency. Whether or not Videotron has plans to upgrade their network infrastructure to FTTH in the future would be best addressed by contacting Videotron directly. Its a very late replay but I hope its helpful for future users.
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