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I think lots of people here manage to max out their 1Gbps connections at times, or have enough devices around the home to justify offloading some to cable. Reduces congestion if you've got a lot of devices just idling on the WiFi, e.g smart home stuff or a busy household. Games these days are ~100GB and sure, you could leave it overnight to download but honestly you may be willing to pay to have that game in an hour instead. Same for if you work with media, download a lot of video files etc.
 
1Gb is very useful in a large household with a lot of devices using the network at the same time. I have VM 1Gb and when a new game is out I am ready to play within 15 minutes typically, whilst none of the other 23 devices connected to the switch or router are affected. Nobody needs 1Gb on a phone or tablet, they will typically max out at around 500Mbps anyway due to wifi overheads, signal quality etc in the average home, and unless someone has upgraded their hub to a router of their own choice, then the ISP hubs don't often have very good wifi radios anyway.

My PC is the heaviest device on the network, though:

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LuckyBenski said:
I think lots of people here manage to max out their 1Gbps connections at times, or have enough devices around the home to justify offloading some to cable. Reduces congestion if you've got a lot of devices just idling on the WiFi, e.g smart home stuff or a busy household. Games these days are ~100GB and sure, you could leave it overnight to download but honestly you may be willing to pay to have that game in an hour instead. Same for if you work with media, download a lot of video files etc.
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mrk said:
1Gb is very useful in a large household with a lot of devices using the network at the same time. I have VM 1Gb and when a new game is out I am ready to play within 15 minutes typically, whilst none of the other 23 devices connected to the switch or router are affected. Nobody needs 1Gb on a phone or tablet, they will typically max out at around 500Mbps anyway due to wifi overheads, signal quality etc in the average home, and unless someone has upgraded their hub to a router of their own choice, then the ISP hubs don't often have very good wifi radios anyway.

My PC is the heaviest device on the network, though:

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I guess that's what I'm getting at. At 1gbps you really probably have a use case for it.

I've never personally been bothered about games as games usually download in background I think I even have steam limited to 30mbps so never gets in way of anything else.


And sure if you're doing some heavy uploading/downloading of video or some other high load scenario where you really can make use of it I get that completely.


Just had a look at ours. Looks like we are (for the entire house) getting through 400gb a month. Actually more than I thought!
 
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There was a thread in home sub forum someone was talking about adding hard wiring to house. Seems a waste to me. WiFi is getting better all the time to point where just doesn't seem worth the cost to cable.
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Oh hell no. Conduit with Ethernet to every room should be the way forward. We need to get the finger out and be like the Americans in that regard, who are used to running data in new homes.
 
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There was a thread in home sub forum someone was talking about adding hard wiring to house. Seems a waste to me. WiFi is getting better all the time to point where just doesn't seem worth the cost to cable.
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Depends what it is, I have all my consoles, streaming services and my Mac on cat5 to the router. It just rules out a lot of issues when trouble shooting.

I think 190mbps will be fine for me, it’s a good speed, sweet spot for price too.
 
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Oh hell no. Conduit with Ethernet to every room should be the way forward. We need to get the finger out and be like the Americans in that regard, who are used to running data in new homes.
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But the rate wifi is progressing for 99 percent of people cabling is unnecessary. Ive just binned off my last wired connection. The pc in my room. Either the ethernet cable or the adapter has flaked.out on me.

If you need cable for whatever reason you need it. But Its OTT to be a staple in new homes.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Depends what it is, I have all my consoles, streaming services and my Mac on cat5 to the router. It just rules out a lot of issues when trouble shooting.

I think 190mbps will be fine for me, it’s a good speed, sweet spot for price too.
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That 190 up and down does seem ideal. How much is it a month?
 
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That 190 up and down does seem ideal. How much is it a month?
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It’s from Zzoomm, £32? But first 6 months free so it works out like £24 a month or thereabouts over 24months contract.

I know there are other packages that are cheaper but for my area this is the best I can get. BT wanted double.
 
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It’s from Zzoomm, £32? But first 6 months free so it works out like £24 a month or thereabouts.

I know there are other packages that are cheaper but for my area this is the best I can get. BT wanted double.
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Pretty good price for that I'd say.
I pay 16 a month for my 70/20. Which I was pretty happy with!
 
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Pretty good price for that I'd say.
I pay 16 a month for my 70/20. Which I was pretty happy with!
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If you don’t need it, save your money but no harm checking what you can get in your area. Someone else mentioned they can get similar to my speed for £17 a month from Hyper(something) company.
 
Bought a Pixel 7 (non-pro). Can't take a photo because selfie cameras don't work that way apparently :cry:

Liking it so far. Noticeably more responsive than the Oneplus Nord it replaces, and the bump in storage to 256gb is useful. Not played with the camera much, but again it does seem like an upgrade.

The only thing I miss is the slider on the OpN. So much more convenient for moving to silent.
 
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But the rate wifi is progressing for 99 percent of people cabling is unnecessary. Ive just binned off my last wired connection. The pc in my room. Either the ethernet cable or the adapter has flaked.out on me.

If you need cable for whatever reason you need it. But Its OTT to be a staple in new homes.
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Wireless will never be as stable and low latency as Ethernet, and the fewer devices you have clogging up the WiFi on the router, they better they will all individually perform.
 
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I guess that's what I'm getting at. At 1gbps you really probably have a use case for it.

I've never personally been bothered about games as games usually download in background I think I even have steam limited to 30mbps so never gets in way of anything else.


And sure if you're doing some heavy uploading/downloading of video or some other high load scenario where you really can make use of it I get that completely.


Just had a look at ours. Looks like we are (for the entire house) getting through 400gb a month. Actually more than I thought!
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I use a bit more than that :D Going from 500Mb to 1Gb tomorrow.

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First of many bike related purchases over the next few weeks. This one is a doner bike to convert to electric for my dad.

Cannondale Adventure 2 - Took it out at lunch for a test just to make sure it works properly and man is it weird riding such an upright bike, i also ran out of gears on the flats. Presumably he won't be riding as fast!
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EDIT - Picture also suggests i need to give my bike a clean!
 
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