A follow-up to my original FiOptics article, we recently upgraded to their (Cincinnati Bell is now altafiber) 2 gigabit service. The service is rated at 2 Gbps down and 1 Gbps up.
The extra bandwidth necessitated a new ONT, which I was told supports up to 10 gigabits, and an SFP module for the UniFi UDM Pro as the ethernet port is only rated for 1 Gbps. That, coupled with a UniFi switch that has 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports, means we actually access the full available bandwidth.
![](https://www.speedtest.net/result/15884332180.png)
Overall the service has been solid, and really no different from our previous service. Just like 1 Gbps service felt like overkill at the time, we grew into 1 Gbps and could, at times, saturate the available bandwidth. This should hopefully last us quite some time … until 10 Gbps becomes a thing 😉
2020-04-11 Update
FiOptics recently updated my 2 gigabit service – perhaps for all using their 2 gigabit service – to be symmetric:
![](https://www.speedtest.net/result/16120676709.png)
This test was conducted on a MacBook Pro using a 2.5 Gbps ethernet USB-C device, coupled with the equipment noted above.