The best internet service I ever had was symmetric gigabit fiber, terminated in my home in San Jose. Not only was it fast, the latency was 2ms. It wasn't cheap,

The best internet service I ever had was symmetric gigabit fiber, terminated in my home in San Jose. Not only was it fast, the latency was 2ms. It wasn't cheap, about $120 / month. So it's definitely possible. The worst, not counting dial-up, was my ADSL service in Oakland. They said the wires were never upgraded. I finally switched to Comcast.