Does this actually matter given that up/down are already prominently advertised?
>with a low latency
Does fiber have lower latency than DSL/cable? Even if there is a speed difference between the two mediums, there probably isn't that big of a difference given the short distance involved (a few miles at most).
>while the cable company will share a 500mbps down 10mbps up connection over 50 houses and sell you 100mbps by throttling everything else for a few minutes and using this burst speed as their advertised bandwidth.
Just because it's fiber doesn't mean the bandwidth isn't shared. eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.984
All bandwidth is going to be shared somewhere, but cable is often heavily over subscribed at the node level, which is going to matter more when you are suddenly given more DOCSIS channels but the node is left unchanged.
Cable companies have an incentive to continue allocating their bandwidth for cable tv channels, and offering the bare minimum (see lack of upload) to internet subscribers since there’s usually no competition. And I’m not an engineer or anything, so while I can’t say for sure if coaxial cable is inferior to fiber optic, the fact that every single fiber connection I’ve used is far snappier and higher bandwidth than coaxial cable leads me to believe it is true, at least for all practical matters.
Thankfully, however, fiber _finally_ became available on my block this year.