Movistar
Movistar It currently offers three speeds for individuals to hire on its website: 300, 600 and 1,000 Mbps. The operator details the maximum, average and minimum speed offered by all these rates so that users have a reference of what they can see on his house.
Thus, in the case of 300 Mbps, the minimum guaranteed download speed is 283.929 Mbps, for the 284.847 Mbps upload. In the case of 600 Mbps, the minimum guaranteed speed is 553.476 Mbps for download and 562,830 for upload. Finally, in 1 Gbps, the minimum guaranteed descent speed is 739.597 Mbps, while the climb also reaches the same speed of 739.597 Mbps. The average, in the latter case, exceeds 900 Mbps.
Orange
Orange It also details the minimum speeds that its connection offers in download and upload, in all the speeds that fiber currently offers. At 100 Mbps, they guarantee 74.955 Mbps downstream and 74.583 Mbps upstream. At 300 Mbps, they guarantee 224,962 download and 219,935 upload. At 500 Mbps, they guarantee 249,958 download and 244,372 upload. At 600 Mbps, they guarantee 449,267 download and 448,784 upload. Finally, in 1 Gbps, guarantee 749,908 down and 673,175 up.
Unfortunately, the latest document available from the operator does not specify the minimum guaranteed speed for the 10 Gbps mode that they already offer in some cities in Spain.
Vodafone
Vodafone It does not explicitly detail the minimum speed of its fiber, but rather claims that it guarantees up to 80% of the advertised speed. Thus, at 300 Mbps, we find a minimum of 240 Mbps; at 600 Mbps, at 480 Mbps, and at 1 Gbps, from 800 Mbps.
MásMóvil, Yoigo and Pepephone
MásMóvil, Yoigo and Pepephone They use a technique similar to that of Vodafone, where they guarantee 80% of the speed of the different speeds that each operator currently offers. Thus, for 100 Mbps, they guarantee 80 Mbps; for 300 Mbps, they guarantee 240 Mbps; and for 600 Mbps, they guarantee 480 Mbps.
Digi
Finally, we have Digi. The operator offers three speeds in Spain: 300 Mbps, 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps. The problem is that most of their footprint in Spain is through the Movistar network, from which they hire less capacity than they should. For this reason, the minimum guaranteed speeds are the lowest of all the operators in the country.
Specifically, for 300 Mbps, they guarantee 149.869 Mbps downstream and 141.950 Mbps upstream. In 1 Gbps, guarantee 700 Mbps download and upload, and at 10 Gbps, they guarantee 5,000.32 Mbps downstream and 6,000.12 Mbps upstream.
Which is the best and which is the worst
The digi figures They are at 50% of what was contracted at 300 Mbps and 10 Gbps, while at 1 Gbps it stands at 70%. These are the figures lowest in the entire industry. MásMóvil and Vodafone guarantee 80%, although MásMóvil recognizes that, in saturation situations, speed can occasionally drop below these figures. Orange guarantees 75% in all its current contractable rates, while Movistar guarantees more than 90% in all modalities below 1 Gbps, standing at 74% for 1 Gbps.
This type of data shows that, sometimes, it is better to contract a fiber rate with an operator that offers direct coverage, since we will be using its own network and we will not depend on the capacity that an alternative operator has contracted or on the saturation that has on the network at that time. Almost every day you can see user complaints regarding the Digi network, where at peak times in urban areas it is not uncommon for the download speed to drop to 20 Mbps or less.