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So I don't know if my thinking makes sense but I think I'm sharing a community download pipeline and it's not really enough to provide gigabit download speeds for each unit.

Your speeds seem to support that conclusion. I’ve seen it with cellular internet speeds quite a bit while in Michigan. During the week, I’d get 60-70 up and 12 down. When the weekend crowd showed up down speed dropped to 6-7, but up remainder 12. 4th of July weekend I got 1 barely and up had even dropped to 9.

One of the selling points of DSL over cable was DSL was your direct connection while cable was shared. DSL would guarantee a speed while cable would say something like speeds up to X, but include a disclaimer saying maybe slower during peak usage periods.

If fiber is a shared connection like cable, I could see how the down speed would be me so much lower than you are expecting. Have you tried testing at different times like say 2am?