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No. You don't have 1 gig ... you have oversubscribed channel with top speed up to 1 gig.

You can totally buy guaranteed connectivity ... buy you will dislike the price tag.

Although my hunch is that you probably have oversaturation of wifi channels if you are in apartment building or something like that. Since everything is streaming wireless nowadays.

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> You can totally buy guaranteed connectivity

Guaranteed bandwidth to internet is nonsensical concept because there is no single internet to have the bandwidth to.

Guaranteed bandwidth to some specific network or host, that is valid concept, but it is very different thing and usually you can't get such thing to any arbitrary network.

> No. You don't have 1 gig ... you have oversubscribed channel with top speed up to 1 gig.

As a residential subscriber in a US apartment building I really don't think I can actually purchase guaranteed 1 gig from any ISP.

not as commodity service, but given enough money someone will work a dedicated cable for sure

I rent, so I doubt I could get a dedicated cable like that on the property by myself, let alone into the unit. The work would probably violate my lease.

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