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

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 !
Indeed but not really the point. Good to have the juice there when you want it to avoid having to wait longer than necessary. Some games are upwards of 150 GB now. At 100 Mbit/s that takes a while, at 1 Gbit/s it takes about 1/10th the time.
 
Indeed but not really the point. Good to have the juice there when you want it to avoid having to wait longer than necessary. Some games are upwards of 150 GB now. At 100 Mbit/s that takes a while, at 1 Gbit/s it takes about 1/10th the time.
mate, I'm on 20mb atm, highest I get on steam is around 2.4mb/s haha >.< the paint.
 
Indeed but not really the point. Good to have the juice there when you want it to avoid having to wait longer than necessary. Some games are upwards of 150 GB now. At 100 Mbit/s that takes a while, at 1 Gbit/s it takes about 1/10th the time.

I would wager that in practice it wouldn't be 1/10th of the time on a large download from the internet when comparing 100M and 1G (ignoring the 900M-something speed limit).

Whilst download services, often hosted on CDNs nowadays will frequently serve files at 100Mbps, they usually top out before they will serve 1Gbps. Being able to shift this amount of data in a single TCP stream reliably in good low latency network conditions also usually tops out around 600Mbps-800Mbps without additional TCP tuning. This is often alleviated by using multiple TCP streams for such downloads. And then you need to commit the data being received to disk and whilst SSDs are good their write speeds rarely support 1Gbps unless it's high end equipment.

But for most gamers their most critical metric will be latency that affects their enjoyment of their game every day of the week rather than for a once a month download. There will be likely be little or no difference in latency and hence game playing performance between 100Mbps and 1G. Fibre will be significantly reduced latency compared to legacy ADSL/VDSL/HFC connections.

I would suggest that if consumers could temper their anticipation for the next game update and download then for most domestic consumers who want to stream media and play games then there's actually little significant difference between 100Mbps and 1Gbps.

The pricing of domestic broadband when there is a promotion often urges people to pay the extra couple of quid to get the fastest speed, but in reality 100Mbps would satisfy most if they really understood what matters.
 
mate, I'm on 20mb atm, highest I get on steam is around 2.4mb/s haha >.< the paint.
whats happening with vm xgs lol
 
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Yep, fair cop. I was still stuck on SATA based performance data rather than NVM. Time work bought me a new laptop then....
You also have the likes of the PlayStation 5 that have a 5.5GB/s ssd built in and I've seen it download games at over 800Mb/s
 
whats happening with vm xgs lol
Delayed due to external work not complete, but that was all done on 14/4 :/ just virgins shoddy system not updating :/

Boundary team had no clue what I was on about, had zero clue of any trials, etc

26th 9am get text stating they coming 8-1 on 28th, but then on 26th 7pm, the external third party offshore centre called saying external work isn’t complete, yet they also had no clue of the trial etc, there is apparently special teams dealing with trials and yet to get in touch with anyone, been well over a week now since I messaged anyone / complained hoping to find out what’s going on. New install 17/5 bet you it gets cancelled around 14th, 15th, due to external work not complete,

Even messaged the network doing it all AV Online, as I assumed they didn’t update it correct on the system but they comfirmed it was all done and is working, so am totally lost 🤷‍♂️.

All the area is prepped with trunking / pull cord, installer would be here 10 minutes -.-
 
Linksys velop is great but getting slows speeds from my Deco M9 plus mesh, can anyone please help?

- Linksys velop - app says 923 Mbps down and 929 Mbps up over WiFi, fast.com says 910 Mbps
- Deco App - app says 821.1 Mbps down and 840.2 Mbps up
- Deco M9 plus - wifi connection is 62 Mbps according to fast.com :(



 
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Linksys velop is great but getting slows speeds from my Deco M9 plus mesh, can anyone please help?

- Linksys velop - app says 923 Mbps down and 929 Mbps up over WiFi, fast.com says 910 Mbps
- Deco App - app says 821.1 Mbps down and 840.2 Mbps up
- Deco M9 plus - wifi connection is 62 Mbps according to fast.com :(



Can you please start a new thread? It's a different issue...
 
I would wager that in practice it wouldn't be 1/10th of the time on a large download from the internet when comparing 100M and 1G (ignoring the 900M-something speed limit).

Whilst download services, often hosted on CDNs nowadays will frequently serve files at 100Mbps, they usually top out before they will serve 1Gbps.
Having had the CF domestic 1Gbit service in the past, most of the cloud gaming stores will easily saturate it. I'm sure they must use multiple TCP sessions but that's all transparent to the user.

I also found that uploads to Google Drive often sat around 850Mbit.

I'll have a chance to try the 3Gbit service next week, so will be interested to see how it performs.
 
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