OT: 1 GB Internet
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It's a substantial upgrade from what you are using now (assuming coax) at a pretty modest price increase. You probably won't need a new router to get some benefits, but may need one to get the top end throughput. The question becomes... How's your internet now? If it does exactly what you want it to do and you have no problems, why drop the $20 for nothing? If you are having problems and your stuff is moving slowly, $20 is cheap to have those delays ironed out.
Personally, my cable internet is fine. I passed on the fiber upgrade offer. Very occasionally, I'll notice some slowness, but that only happens MAYBE once a month. I consider it like this. I'm driving a Subaru around my neighborhood... It gets me where I'm going just fine. I could upgrade to a sports car at a good price, but the speed limit is still 35... what's the point if you can't/won't use the new bells and whistles?
Bragging rights are cool I suppose. Does using the phrase "I have fiber directly into my house" excite you? If so, pay the $20 and no doubt you'll get all the hot chicks.
Worth it? That's up to you but I'd say probably not. 200 MB/S is more than enough for a home under currently what's available. If you start streaming a bunch of 4k HD videos? maybe think to upgrade.
New router, if you upgrade? Absolutely, otherwise you'll only see a modest upgrade to whatever your router's max is. Routers have max speed caps.
New router, if you upgrade? Absolutely, otherwise you'll only see a modest upgrade to whatever your router's max is. Routers have max speed caps.
I have it, and no it's not necessary. However, comcast had an offer that was $10 more than what I was paying for 50mb, so it was a no brainer for me.
I've since installed Ubiquiti AP's in my house and everything that can connect at high speed does... but not much can use that kind of speed.
I've since installed Ubiquiti AP's in my house and everything that can connect at high speed does... but not much can use that kind of speed.
For most applications you will not notice any difference over say 200mbps. I work in the industry and deal with this every day. Most internet websites only upload to you at 5-10mbps. If you are streaming 4K content over WiFi on 4 devices simultaneously while running 3 tablets, you may notice the difference. The people who appreciate this level of speed are office environments with multiple workstations and photographers who upload and download very large files all the time.
You obviously havent seen the size porn files I download.
Need the 1gig for 4k virtual reality super soft core 4 hr long sessions.
No one residential needs 1 GB service. You will never utilize more than 1/4 of what you pay for and that is for an extremely active user.
Just to reach 250 mb/s you would need to simultaneously stream:
50 HD shows(5mb/s each) or 10 4K shows(25mb/s each)
and again.... that is just to achieve 1/4 of what you are paying for. 100mb/s is more than enough for 99.99% of the population. 1 GB is what large businesses/corporations have.
Just to reach 250 mb/s you would need to simultaneously stream:
50 HD shows(5mb/s each) or 10 4K shows(25mb/s each)
and again.... that is just to achieve 1/4 of what you are paying for. 100mb/s is more than enough for 99.99% of the population. 1 GB is what large businesses/corporations have.
Just curious, for those of us who live in middle of no where (Westminster) Is there any technology that will be coming out over the next few years to help us with internet? We have U-verse but are maxed out at 6mb and often run much less. I don't know if ATT will ever upgrade us? Will satellite ever get more reasonable? Mobile providers be a viable option? At night we can't even stream standard def without a lot of buffering
The one thing you want to factor in is signal loss over WiFi if you don’t have a very good router or mesh system. At 40 feet you can lose 50-70% of your available bandwidth. Even with that level of loss you shouldn’t touch needing that kind of bandwidth. When we encounter customers on 100mbps with internet speed issues it’s always a WiFi signal issue, usually interference.
Jeez. Be glad you got U-Verse. Phone in Pelion is Comporium so I can't even get AT&T or U-Verse. I pay more than OP for 10 mps, but get half that because of the old phone lines. I need to call HughesNet. They used to have a data limit, so that sucked, but I heard recently that they do not have a data limit now.
Anybody else got any ideas for us that can't even get cable?
I can attest to that. I have 100 mb spectrum and have zero problems running a remote working session and multiple HD tvs. The only time I had an issue was when my equipment (that I installed) wasn't very good and in the wrong location to get the best signal in the entire house. It worked but my speed in some rooms of the house would not go over 25 mb/s. Upgraded my router and moved it to a more central location. Now I get 75-100 in pretty much every room. I have run 5 different hd streams on game days with 100 mb service and it works just fine. Cannot fathom the need for 1 gb service. It's like buying a 300K Ferrari when your average speed is 45 mph. It looks cool. It can go fast. But you don't need it and there are very very very few applicable situations for it.
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