I am one of the lucky few in the UK with FTTC which I think is what is called FIOC is called in the US, so fiber to the street cab and then VHDSL over twisted pair to the house. The conection delivers about 67 down/17 up, but most of the stuff in the house can't actually utilize that. So the laptop I am using to type this on reports:-
22 Down/ 14 Up/ 16ms ping
on the speedtest web site. My puny netbook reports about half that, but my I5 desktop will, I think drive it flat out. Oddly a friend who lives just outside the main conurbation struggles to get 1.5down/0.5 up....
I bought it for a number of reasons:-
1. It really speeds up saving documents when working from home over VPN for my wife.
2. It speeds up uploads which is great as I manage a web site for my local radio club and host some snapshots of the hercules IBM Mainframe Emulator.
These days my son also uses it to VPN into the BBC web site from the US so he can watch some UK TV program.