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Appletise

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Sep 19, 2012
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for broadband choice, would you go with EE wifi at 150Mbps with a wifi 6 router or Sky wifi at 500Mbps with their std wifi 5 router. The flat being ~ 1137sq ft (i believe the router has to be fitted at corner of flat :(( so booster likely required and was used before by last owners but they probably had wifi 5 router). Usage is not that heavy, typically 4 ppl maximum with their mobile phones, 2 playing games and 2 watching YouTube. The range is likely more important as previous tenants required a booster. Both are very similar in price. Sky does do a wifi 6 router but that costs extra £3-10pcm. Currently use 3’s 5G router with a sim card and it is awful for range, range with only one room getting any wifi. Which would you choose 150mbps with wifi 6 router or 500mbps with wifi 5 router? We had 70mbps wifi 5 before and that was sufficient for a ~700sqft flat
 
Either WiFi 6 or WiFi 5 isn’t going to make a difference when ISP connection is 150-500Mbps. Throughput is what it is. Especially in such a small space. Go with the cheapest.
 
theyre about the same price, all flats in block have a booster, there flats are ~ same size maybe bigger by ~300-500sqft.
so which youd go for 500M with wifi 5 router or 150M with wifi 6 router? l do have a 10m LAN cable so hopefull move the router more central as currently the socket is right in far corner of flat. do let me know. cheers
 
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