The reason we haven't moved to fiber in the residential area is for three reasons: 1) fiber is hard to work with, splicing, connecting, sanding, etc... whatever is done with it. It's not for everyone; 2) fiber is expensive compared to CAT5 or even CAT6 (bought 1000' of CAT6 for $140 at Home Depot); 3) CAT6 can do gigabit speed, shielded CAT6 is likely to be able to support 10gigabit speeds.
Yes, you can transmit gigabit speeds over 2 miles with fiber, but the normal household doesn't need 2 miles worth of a run. So between that and the previously mentioned points, copper stills wins.
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Yes, you can transmit gigabit speeds over 2 miles with fiber, but the normal household doesn't need 2 miles worth of a run. So between that and the previously mentioned points, copper stills wins.