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1,000 Mbps or 3,000 Mbps for WiFi only household?

themaxx

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Hi, this is a bit of a noob question, so please bear with me. Community Fibre is available in my area, but I'm not sure if I should go for 1,000 Mbps or 3,000 Mbps if we only use WiFi in our house.

Their website says expected WiFi speed for 1,000 Mbps is 400-650 Mbps, while expected WiFi speed for 1,000 Mbps is 400-800 Mbps. That's roughly the same for an extra £20, so I'm leaning towards going for a 1,000 Mbps connection.

My question is, is there any way to get higher WiFi speeds than the expected estimations above? Can I use more of the 3,000 Mbps connection if I purchase a WiFi 6E or WiFi 7 mesh system?

Thanks for any advice, I'm a bit lost in this area.
 
i have a wifi 6 router and im barely maxing out my 1gbps plan from BT (OR). they is currenlty only ONE wifi 7 router from asus if im not mistaken which can take full advantage of 3gbps.

however if you want to future proof then get the 3gbps plan as its really cheap right now, normally its £99 and even out of contract your only going to pay £52 which is still cheap for the speeds, you can use the 3gbps on your pc if you have good specs with an ethernet cable and get 3gbps with ease.

https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/wifi-7/all-series/filter?Category=WiFi-Routers

i found 2 wifi 7 routers from asus, but they super expensive.

and one from netgear https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/rs700/

In the end you will not notice a difference on WIFI between 1gbps or 3gbps.
 
Hi, this is a bit of a noob question, so please bear with me. Community Fibre is available in my area, but I'm not sure if I should go for 1,000 Mbps or 3,000 Mbps if we only use WiFi in our house.

Their website says expected WiFi speed for 1,000 Mbps is 400-650 Mbps, while expected WiFi speed for 1,000 Mbps is 400-800 Mbps. That's roughly the same for an extra £20, so I'm leaning towards going for a 1,000 Mbps connection.

My question is, is there any way to get higher WiFi speeds than the expected estimations above? Can I use more of the 3,000 Mbps connection if I purchase a WiFi 6E or WiFi 7 mesh system?

Thanks for any advice, I'm a bit lost in this area.
3Gbps not worth it in your case. This offering really is for techies/amateurs or people who work with ludicrously large files on a daily basis.
Save your ££.
 
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The short answer is no, you will not see a difference. First achieving over 1gbps over WiFi is a challenge in itself both from WiFi client, WiFi access point and remote server point of view. Selecting the 3gbps plan also means that your internal network, routers, switches and access points will need to be 10gbps or at least 2.5gbps in order to use the extra bandwidth. These days there are very few services that let you consume data over 1gbps. So the 3gbps plan is really aimed for large households that have lots of heavy users with data hungry devices and a lot of them should be wired since wireless bandwidth is limited, no matter what standard you use.
 
A connection is only as fast as it's slowest point.

As many have noted above, what do you have that requires 3Gbit/s? Or even 1Gbit/s? What do you use your internet connection for?

Ferrari or other supercar (3Gbps) where you are limited in practice to 30mph (100Mbps), even at 60-70mph (1Gbps) the supercar still can't use all the power it has available. The mph figures are illustrative.
 
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what/how many devices? Throughput matters a lot on the access point imo, someone downloading a game could hog your connection, I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it, and why not try stick some Ethernet cables around? A lot easier than you think!
 
You’ll probably be fine with 500mbps, but 1gbps symmetric is more attractive. To fully utilise the 1gpbs bandwidth multiple wired AP’s are needed. Also use wired ethernet for high bandwidth devices if possible. Enjoy the low latency CF service!
 
what/how many devices? Throughput matters a lot on the access point imo, someone downloading a game could hog your connection, I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it, and why not try stick some Ethernet cables around? A lot easier than you think!
I'll have my WFH laptop going, maybe 2 mobile phones plus WiFi TV. There have been issues where I've been on a Zoom call with the WiFi TV going at the same time, so looking forward to Community Fibre, due to be installed next Thursday!
 
I'll have my WFH laptop going, maybe 2 mobile phones plus WiFi TV. There have been issues where I've been on a Zoom call with the WiFi TV going at the same time, so looking forward to Community Fibre, due to be installed next Thursday!
Oh yeah, you're not going to have these issues with even 100 Mbps.

You mentioned earlier on about improving the home network/wifi, that's still potentially an issue. Ie, your connection is bottlenecked by wifi that is only able to max at 30mbps (very simplified, extreme case of course)
 
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Oh yeah, you're not going to have these issues with even 100 Mbps.

You mentioned earlier on about improving the home network/wifi, that's still potentially an issue. Ie, your connection is bottlenecked by wifi that is only able to max at 30mbps (very simplified, extreme case of course)
Ah makes sense. I'm currently on BT BT Fibre Halo 1 - 73Mb download speed with 60Mb guaranteed minimum speed. Two story house, connecting the main router in the front room with my upstairs back room office via 2 Deco M9 plus. That's probably the weak link, the connection isn't great and I should have 3 units, but the Mrs doesn't want units scattered around the house.

Just now I ran a speedtest on my mobile while on a webinar on my laptop sitting in the back upstairs room, got 61.57 Mbps on my iphone, but the webinar stopped while I was running the test. I guess I need to upgrade the mesh WiFi units? It never ends £££ 😭
 
Ah makes sense. I'm currently on BT BT Fibre Halo 1 - 73Mb download speed with 60Mb guaranteed minimum speed. Two story house, connecting the main router in the front room with my upstairs back room office via 2 Deco M9 plus. That's probably the weak link, the connection isn't great and I should have 3 units, but the Mrs doesn't want units scattered around the house.

Just now I ran a speedtest on my mobile while on a webinar on my laptop sitting in the back upstairs room, got 61.57 Mbps on my iphone, but the webinar stopped while I was running the test. I guess I need to upgrade the mesh WiFi units? It never ends £££ 😭
I'd just see how it goes when you switch over, it could just work great with what you have or even their provided router
 
You get a decent Linksys Velop Wifi-6 tri-band router + AP with the 1gbps service. To extend coverage buy another matching device off flea bay, example below:

 
You get a decent Linksys Velop Wifi-6 tri-band router + AP with the 1gbps service. To extend coverage buy another matching device off flea bay, example below:

The Velop makes a fantastic wireless access point. I'm not using mine as a router (using Community Fibre with pfSense) but the signal strength, stability and throughput as an access point have been fantastic. It is nice to see an ISP bundle high quality equipment.
 
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I would only downgrade to 500mbps at the end of my 24m contract if it was at last Octobers bargain basement price of £18ish/month.
 
Do folks realise a 1000Mb/s aka a 1Gb/s connection equates to capacity to download 10,800 Gigabytes of data per day. Few homes will manage to use 1% of that !
 
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