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The sweet spot is at 500mbps and 1gbps however. Even if you need to upload a massive captured video coming in at 30GB in size, you're looking at around 5 minutes upload - assuming the other side can accept that upload speed to them.That pricing makes sense. Makes 2.5GB tempting. Not sure why for me though. Everything i download is done super quick.
Maybe just to wind up @mrk as he likes to say how quick he downloaded on his 1gb line. I can only match him now, but if i upgrade I can tell him how slow his connection is
A 2.5g connection would push that down to 2 minutes 30 seconds odd. 5g at 1 minutes 15 seconds odd. And 10g at around 37-40 seconds.
5 minutes vs 40 seconds isn't that big a deal for most household consumers. A business might be a different matter. But at home, that's plenty really. Even the 500mbps only doubles it up to around 10 minutes to upload that 30GB video (to say Youtube), so most - given the consideration of price to performance as well, would happily sit in the 500mbps to 1gbps connection package group vs spending more for 2.5g+ connections.
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Yeah, totally agree.
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I notice the WiFi average on the 2.5ghz line is a lot lower, to be expected, but I can get 600-700mbps over WiFi now on my 1gbps Aquiss service.
Is tech holding that back, I would have thought double the speed of a 1gbps line would have at least put WiFi into 1gbps +.
If so it makes upgrading speeds any further not worth it for me as I connect most of my devices over WiFi.
Is tech holding that back, I would have thought double the speed of a 1gbps line would have at least put WiFi into 1gbps +.
If so it makes upgrading speeds any further not worth it for me as I connect most of my devices over WiFi.
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It's likely because their new supplied routers are WiFi 5 only. Even the ones with 2.5g ports on them. So WiFi speeds will be slower compared to those given WiFi 6 units.
The many (MANY) CF routers locally here I can scan, are nearly all WiFi 5 or lower. Only 1 other is using WiFi 6 and they're further away from us (and checking now, not with CF, they're with Three so might be a mobile connection).
The many (MANY) CF routers locally here I can scan, are nearly all WiFi 5 or lower. Only 1 other is using WiFi 6 and they're further away from us (and checking now, not with CF, they're with Three so might be a mobile connection).
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1000% agree. Most of the stuff I download aren't saturating my full 1gbps connection. Especially on update day for games and stuff, most launchers throttle it now or have awful servers with slow downloads when everyone is hitting it (looking at you battle net).
1gbps for me is that sweet spot. Its also nice to know that my uplink to home when I'm away will always be limited by the WiFi or cellular that I am connected to.
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my router does 10gbit
That was the first thing i bought even before getting community fibre!!
The average is assuming you're using the supplied router. If you want to improve WiFi performance, it's best to go with a 3rd party router or even an access point. Example, here's an older post from me comparing it with the older MX4200 based router (CF now provides this router to new customers instead) and a UniFi 6 Pro AP: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/community-fibre.18828831/post-36460565
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my router does 10gbit
That was the first thing i bought even before getting community fibre!!
Haha. Poor mrk
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What’s with all the one upmanship in here.
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HeheheHaha. Poor mrk
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You need WiFi 6E or 7 to go over 1000Mb on WiFi, though some routers can do 160Hz channels on WiFi 6 which will also break 1000Mb on WiFi.
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Ah ok, I have Eero pro 6 but that is only 5ghz, despite the name. Might upgrade to the max 7 eventually, but they cost a bomb currently.
I would be careful using 160MHz on 5GHz, it'll definitely overlap with your neighbour's 5GHz networks as well, and it'll also need to use DFS channels. On 6GHz though it's mainly fine.
There's cheaper WiFi 7 options than the Eero, I think even some of the UniFi stuff is also cheaper.
There's cheaper WiFi 7 options than the Eero, I think even some of the UniFi stuff is also cheaper.
Still using a UniFi 6 Pro for the majority of the home, and an older AC Pro for the part with weak 5GHz coverage. Both wired back to a PoE TP-Link switch and then to the Linksys. I have WiFi turned off on it. Near 900mb odd when connected to the 6 Pro and ~650mb odd with the AC Pro. Haven't jumped on 6E or 7 since I hardly have any devices that supports 6GHz, and even then all the bandwidth hungry devices are also on ethernet.What's your current setup?
I've been playing around with the idea recently to replace the Linksys with something like the Ubiquiti's Dream Router 7 though, that will also replace the 6 Pro, and then I can use that 6 Pro to replace the AC Pro.
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For sure, but I find the eero setup really good and super easy to setup and use.