EE 1.8Gb

no_1_dave

no_1_dave

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EE are offering 1.8Gb/120mb, has anybody tried this yet..?

I'm tempted when my 12 months is up with Aquiss but I'm put off by the fact that their supplied router only has a 2.5Gb WAN port, no 2.5Gb LAN ports so you're still limited to 1Gb when hardwired. My current router has no 2.5Gb ports and routers with more than 1x 2.5Gb ports appear to be £250+ which makes it quite an outlay if I wanna make the most of the 1.8Gb download speed. I know the whole idea is multiple people in the family can use it at once and I don't need 1.8Gb etc etc but if I have it I wanna be able to use it :cool:
 
People can only buy what they can get. If I only had access to Openreach services I'd be on the highest speed plan I could afford to get the upload.
 
Caged said:
People can only buy what they can get. If I only had access to Openreach services I'd be on the highest speed plan I could afford to get the upload.
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Which would be 900 down, the small uplift you get with the higher speed is not worth it. Had it been 150+ I’d have ordered it.
 
I have had it running since the 10th Nov. New 2.5Gbps ONT installed going into my Asus ET12 WiFi 6E router, then 2.5 lan out to 2.5 switches etc.

I have had a solid minimum 1.6Gbps Speedtest.net to the right servers. Most of the time it’s around 1.68-1.7Gbps. WiFi 6E to iPhone 15pro max giving around 1.3Gbps.

Great, when you have 2 kids in the house downloading 100gb+ games etc. never see any drop in internet performance, always enough to go round now.

Fastest download I’ve seen so far, is 197meg a sec!
 
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It's quite funny the marketing for some of these services, suggesting a house of four needs a gigabit.
 
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coolmp3 said:
I have had it running since the 10th Nov. New 2.5Gbps ONT installed going into my Asus ET12 WiFi 6E router, then 2.5 lan out to 2.5 switches etc.

I have had a solid minimum 1.6Gbps Speedtest.net to the right servers. Most of the time it’s around 1.68-1.7Gbps. WiFi 6E to iPhone 15pro max giving around 1.3Gbps.

Great, when you have 2 kids in the house downloading 100gb+ games etc. never see any drop in internet performance, always enough to go round now.

Fastest download I’ve seen so far, is 197meg a sec!
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The pricey routers is what is putting me off.
I see a lot of routers with 1x 2.5Gb port, but that will obviously be the WAN. To get a 2nd 2.5Gb port so it can be output to switches you need to spend £250-£300 minimum. I can't find any routers under £200 which have more than 1 2.5Gb WAN/LAN port :(
 
coolmp3 said:
Great, when you have 2 kids in the house downloading 100gb+ games etc. never see any drop in internet performance, always enough to go round now.
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This is the funny part, how often are they downloading these games? Assuming a single game is 100GB, then that will still download in ~10 minutes at gigabit assuming it maintains 100MB/s give or take.

Last month I downloaded Starfield 4 times in a week because of reasons, not one time did another device get impacted whilst the downloads were happening. And that was on VM's 1Gb/100Mb package.

I've been on VM Hgig1 for 18+ months (before that on 500Mb) and now on 900Mb/900Mb FTTP, in a household with 31+ devices connected throughout the average day where two people are gamers using the usual services so downloading games when new titles are out etc is not uncommon, otherwise everything else is NZB/4k streaming etc. Personally I see even 1Gb as overkill for even a gaming household, but at a starting price of £25 a sync 900/900, it's a no brainer really. And through all these years even the slower speeds were more than enough for the same usage patterns with the same connected devices and users. At up to Gigabit speeds, things download so fast that any impact to other users is never noticed anyway.

Anything faster doubly doesn't make sense when you factor in the cost of routers and switches with multiple 2.5Gbit ports either.
 
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120mb upload for £70 a month is disgusting, and beyond 1Gb download to any home user is just about completely pointless. I feel this is a massive waste of time and money offering this service.

I often do 10TB+ of bandwidth per month. On a 1Gb connection I have never had reason for a faster connection. It's only ever the 110Mb upload that hold me back.

I'd take a 1Gb symmetrical any day over 1.8Gb/120Mb. Sadly the only ones offering 1Gb symmetrical to my address is Lightspeed who use CGNAT and have a combined ONT/Router :(
 
no_1_dave said:
The pricey routers is what is putting me off.
I see a lot of routers with 1x 2.5Gb port, but that will obviously be the WAN. To get a 2nd 2.5Gb port so it can be output to switches you need to spend £250-£300 minimum. I can't find any routers under £200 which have more than 1 2.5Gb WAN/LAN port :(
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andy_mk3 said:
120mb upload for £70 a month is disgusting, and beyond 1Gb download to any home user is just about completely pointless. I feel this is a massive waste of time and money offering this service.

I often do 10TB+ of bandwidth per month. On a 1Gb connection I have never had reason for a faster connection. It's only ever the 110Mb upload that hold me back.

I'd take a 1Gb symmetrical any day over 1.8Gb/120Mb. Sadly the only ones offering 1Gb symmetrical to my address is Lightspeed who use CGNAT and have a combined ONT/Router :(
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I’ve just contracted to EE for 500gb at £31 a month, I toyed with the idea moving to the 900mb and even thought about the 1.8gb but I had 500mb before and it seemed fine running a ps5, PC, 2 gaming laptops simultaneously with Netflix streaming etc.

The actual latency matters more for gaming and that doesn’t really change much when increasing the speed.
 
no_1_dave said:
The pricey routers is what is putting me off.
I see a lot of routers with 1x 2.5Gb port, but that will obviously be the WAN. To get a 2nd 2.5Gb port so it can be output to switches you need to spend £250-£300 minimum. I can't find any routers under £200 which have more than 1 2.5Gb WAN/LAN port :(
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Should be £140+VAT

8 x 2.5GbE ports, 2 x 10GbE SFP+, RouterOS v7 for so many router options you really do need to go on a training course to learn to turn it on…

Admittedly, it’s not that attractive but I generally don’t look for pretty in my routers.
 
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Mikrotik's own specs show it doing nothing like that, have you tested it independently?
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I’ve got one on the bench here and it’s effectively routing 10GbE from a NAS to several laptops. It’s a 10GbE switch. Why do you think. It won’t route traffic at that speed? Sure, if you slap 50 firewall rules in it’ll slow down but what cheap router wouldn’t?
 
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