Wireless v wired internet

Ainsley1

Ah Thanks Gratis for pointing out my genuine mistake. After Nurse came today with my medicine, calmed me down, put me down for forty winks and then woke me up with a bed bath...even I can see the light!


....so much for advocating precision

That's a crackin' carrier you were on Gratis going at such a rate of knots

comphunter345

Only benefit I can see of having 100MB would be if you were hosting online gaming, and even then i think it would be overkill.

I use a wired 30MB connection and have no problems at all, although there is very little other activity on the bandwith. If there are lots of people using the wifi then the extra bandwith would be useful as you would share out a proportion of it.

onomatopoeia99

splot wrote: »

Would it be better to reduce the wired speed to say 60mb, save some money and live with the existing wireless speeds?

Nope. My whole network is wired, I don't want to have my WAN side throughput crippled because some people use wireless locally so are limited on their LAN side.

And yes, wiring everything means channels in the wall for the cat5e cable, a patch panel and switch in the boiler cupboard and a 10m network cable from the socket to the laptop so I can move it around the lounge.

RumRat

Bandwidth and speed are two different things. Although one can affect the other in certain circumstances.

prowla

RumRat wrote: »

If you drop down to the 60Meg package it will be increased to 100MB soon, for free, anyway. If you really want to save money, drop to the 30MB package which will increase to 50MB eventually, again for free.
If you decrease your line in speed your wireless speed will probably drop correspondingly. I doubt you will notice much difference in daily use though.

Note that the line speed is expressed in Mb (megabits), not MB (megabytes), (and definitely not mb - millibits, which is meaningless!)

As a rule of thumb you can approximate a max. 60 Mb/s line speed to something like up to 6 MB/s received data.

Of course, the speed you get files/content over that line is dependent upon other things than just the line speed, so the actual performance will be less; things it depends upon are:

• How fast the server at the other end is sending your data to you (if it's heavily loaded, then it can be slow).
• How many people are using your connection at the same time (I often have 3 kids watching movies, playing games, chatting via Skype, which can slow things down).
• The quality/strength of your wireless signal in the house (a poor/weak signal will likely be slower).
• Any number of other factors, but you get the picture.

The wireless speed inside the house will stay the same regardless of the speed of the external connection; however, the halved capacity of the external connection from 60 to 30 Mbps could come into play and be an extra factor in the above list.