I'm just waiting for this extra Ubiquiti unit to hit the shelves with 8 x 10 SFP+ 10GB ports, then the wired home network will be capable of 10GB.
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10Gb speed is overkill for home use. It will also cost a lot more than the 1Gb Fiber that is already available.
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Be sure to use the correct case for the 'B'. In the case of network speeds:
b = bit
B = Byte
Usually we're referring to Gb, not GB. Gb is slower than GB, to have 1 GB home internet would be VERY fast...
I don’t need lecture. I made a typo. Deal with it.
I don't know that is the case, and there ARE people that mix the two up. I don't need a snarky reply, deal with it...
In the USA, yes. This country's broadband offerings are ghetto.
Not so in places like South Korea:
South Korea gets super-duper fast internet
While video buffers continue to bug you every night, people are enjoying lightning fast internet in the land of kimchi.
www.cnet.com
Widespread 2.5Gbps broadband from SK Broadband in South Korea. In 2018. And plans to offer 5Gbps and 10Gbps connectivity that same year. And they are ranked 12th in the world for fixed broadband speeds.
Broadband in the USA is slow and expensive compared to other industrialized nations. Americans have low expectations for both fixed broadband and cellular network performance.
A couple of years ago I got 150+Mbps download speeds on the Joetsu Shinkansen (bullet train) in Japan FOR FREE. Cellular reception is solid in Tokyo Metro subway cars and many stations have free wifi.
Here in Denmark my current 1000/1000 Mbps fiber is USD 45/month - the 200/200 connection is USD 5 less per month, so it's a no brainer.
The world ranking is interesting, I find it surprising that USA is rather low on the list and I understand the cost is not very competitive, lack of competition? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds
The world ranking is interesting, I find it surprising that USA is rather low on the list and I understand the cost is not very competitive, lack of competition? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds
Here's a local ISP (inea.pl) with a $30/month offer of 10Gbps (on hardware level, actual upload/download is capped @ 8.5 Gbps) internet. I didn't order it, as I do not want to go back to Ethernet to make any use of it, and my 1Gbps link is more than enough for a single-person household while going for $10/month.
Don't forget when looking at download speed it depends how many devices you have connected.
You may have 1Gb if you've only got one device but if you have three or four connected they will share it and it's perfectly possible one will drop to 50mbps
Also, you won't get gigabyte speed if you are using Cat5 ethernet cables. I think you need Cat 5E at minimum (but I'd have to check). CAT6 would be better.
You are limited by the slowest link in the chain and again I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure if you've got something connected which is using one of the older protocols, they all have to slow down.
If Someone is using a DS on 80211.N then everyone ends up at 54Mbps.
Finally, don't forget WEP and WPA are limited on wifi to 54Mpbs and if you want to go full speed you need WPA2.(also TKIP is limited).
You may have 1Gb if you've only got one device but if you have three or four connected they will share it and it's perfectly possible one will drop to 50mbps
Also, you won't get gigabyte speed if you are using Cat5 ethernet cables. I think you need Cat 5E at minimum (but I'd have to check). CAT6 would be better.
You are limited by the slowest link in the chain and again I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure if you've got something connected which is using one of the older protocols, they all have to slow down.
If Someone is using a DS on 80211.N then everyone ends up at 54Mbps.
Finally, don't forget WEP and WPA are limited on wifi to 54Mpbs and if you want to go full speed you need WPA2.(also TKIP is limited).
It's available in Switzerland already since 2018. It costs ca USD 50 a month. This is nothing special.
But globally seen, the step up to an at least 100 MBit link is more important to connect everyone.
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On my Ubiquiti 1 Gbps setup the wired UniFi smart switches will recognize if if a slower wired max 100 Mbps unit is connected and negotiate the output to that single unit accordingly, but that does not reduce the capacity on the other 1 Gbps wired units. The overall total incoming internet speed of 1 Gbps naturally can't be exceeded. On wifi the number of clients will have to share whatever the wifi is restricted to and that's usually much less than 1 Gbps, but perhaps wifi 6 will change that?
On my Ubiquiti 1 Gbps setup the wired UniFi smart switches will recognize if if a slower wired max 100 Mbps unit is connected and negotiate the output to that single unit accordingly, but that does not reduce the capacity on the other 1 Gbps wired units. The overall total incoming internet speed of 1 Gbps naturally can't be exceeded. On wifi the number of clients will have to share whatever the wifi is restricted to and that's usually much less than 1 Gbps, but perhaps wifi 6 will change that?
"m" is for "mili", "M" will go for "mega", just to add my $0.02 to the abbreviation contest.
Anyway, in a simplified situation a drop to 50 Mbps on a 1Gbps link will happen if there are 20 devices connected to 20 different sources each providing a 50 Mbps (or more) dedicated datastream to a device. 4k Netflix takes around 25 Mbps so you will not suffer a lot.
I think it's not going to happen. Using 802.11n on 2.4 Ghz clients will connect at different data rates and will be offered up to 300 Mbps while slower/more distant clients using 802.11n will connect at a slower rate. It does not work in a way that if someone connects at 2 Mbps from a distance to the access point, everyone drops to 2 Mbps.
I highly doubt anyone uses less than WPA2-AES on a wireless network, most access points even disable any user access to older security protocols if 802.11n or AC is selected.
Cat 5E is indeed the usual minimum for gigabit speeds.
In terms of being limited by the slowest link in the chain... it reads like you're conflating a bunch of things. To clarify, devices new or old on wifi will have no bearing on ethernet device speeds. A 10/100 switch in the middle or a cat 5 cable through the wall would, obviously, drop it down from gigabit to 10/100. And 802.11b devices can slow down newer ones on the same network, but I'm not aware of 802.11n ones doing the same thing. Also, 54Mbps is 802.11g speed...
i dont know where your peeps are buying their home equipment??
i buy nothing but the best from craigslist. I have a HP1810, the consumer 8port version j9802a. It is maybe 15years old. I bought it because I used it in a previous life way back when rock was dirt. It is rated 10/100/1000Mb.
The 10/100Mb speed is highly avaliable since the 90's or something.
Say your streaming a video; after going throough a firewall, local lan routing, wiofi, stripping off all the netFlix wrapings yes your lucky to get 500K Bytes / S
the fastest device we have in our house is a 2017 MBP. Recall that was the Apple with the junk butterfly keyboard and the stage lights screen. If you dont use the keybard and the restart gods are in-line to setup avoiding the stage lights you can stream a mean netFlix movie. None of our devices use a lot of bandwith. Now if we aspire to buy a new 8K flat screen driven by a PC motherboard with full HDMI 2.1 ports. Now that might use have some medium bandwidh reqiremewnts. Till than...
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The fact you bought a Gigabit capable router that was made 15 years ago has absolutely nothing to do with the non-existent availability of consumer equipment capable of supporting 10-Gigabit ethernet (note that that is 10x faster than your equipment, and those speeds are the subject of the OP...) today.
oops, I conceed you won
still the 10,100,1000 rating is highly avaliable.
let you know i paid a whole $35.00 USD for that 8port router last year.
i connected to work just now and noticed the vpn was doing 1-8 Meg Byte transfers as measured at a hard wired ethernet 2016 iMac. there are considerable losses after everything gets through the firewall, routed and un wrapped.
still the 10,100,1000 rating is highly avaliable.
let you know i paid a whole $35.00 USD for that 8port router last year.
i connected to work just now and noticed the vpn was doing 1-8 Meg Byte transfers as measured at a hard wired ethernet 2016 iMac. there are considerable losses after everything gets through the firewall, routed and un wrapped.
It only takes 35Mbps to comfortably stream HD content. If you had 10 people trying to watch HD content at the same time with 1Gbps, you would still have plenty of bandwidth left.
It's worth pointing out that a lot of gaming PCs now support 2.5Gbps Ethernet without exorbitant extra cost.
Just get four Millennials together in a house and a 10Gbps broadband connection is saturated when they simultaneously fire up Steam on a Tuesday evening to update their game libraries.
Again, some American participants here seem to be myopic about how commonplace these high-speed connections are in 2020.
Just get four Millennials together in a house and a 10Gbps broadband connection is saturated when they simultaneously fire up Steam on a Tuesday evening to update their game libraries.
Again, some American participants here seem to be myopic about how commonplace these high-speed connections are in 2020.
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It seems that Google Fiber will offer 2 Gbps in the near future: https://fiber.google.com/2gig/
i live in a US mid size city where even the 1Gb speed is NOT avaliable in many urban neighborhoods here.
Google Fiber beta is test marketing in Nashville & Huntsville. Incrimental effort; 2G dwn and 1G up
here is an American based forum about all things internet providor:
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i looked on newegg.com for a 10Gb nic card, network interface card and seems a 2 port card was priced $200-300 USD.
To implement a mediium or better encrypted vpn, just a firewall and or do routing for a 10Gb home network would require a lot more processing. LIkely the equipment would have a noisy fan driven air flow and 100 watt power supply running 24/7.
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That's the myopia he's talking about. 1Gbps is a rather common offering in countries smaller and/or with better infrastructure. The US broadband is somehow a different business compared to European or Asian counterpart, including but not limited to data caps.