Would anyone know of a reasonably priced 5Gb\10Gb unmanaged switch at a reasonable price? It would need 4 or more ports. I don't know anything about managed switches to consider those! There seems to be plenty of 2.5Gb switches. Thanks
Sorry for asking but why so fast ... domestic?
I'm not sure I see much that would touch the sides of a 2.5g switch tbh!
It's a fair question. I now have a 5Gb provider, only €50 per month for 2 years on special offer, which is cheaper than the slower provider I previously had. I'll probably never take proper advantage of the speed (at least in the next few years) but the router only has one output port of 10Gb and the others are 1Gb ports. I want one port to go to my PC which can take 5Gb (in practice it reaches around 4.5Gb on a speed test) and then I want another port to go to my mesh wi-fi knowing that at best I'll probably 'only' get at best half of that on wi-fi 7 capable devices.
I now have a 5Gb provider
But what do you actually get?
The vast majority get a much lower download speed than advertised.
(I pay for 350 but actually get 90)
And how much are you going to actually use? Domestic use is often much lower then expected.
I now have a 5Gb provider
But what do you actually get?
The vast majority get a much lower download speed than advertised.
(I pay for 350 but actually get 90)And how much are you going to actually use? Domestic use is often much lower then expected.
I would get in touch with your ISP and complain then. I pay for 500Mbps and I normally get more than that; 522.54 just now.
And how much are you going to actually use? Domestic use is often much lower then expected
This is true of DSL, if FTTP is doing this then it is broken.
The vast majority get a much lower download speed than advertised.
(I pay for 350 but actually get 90)
Virgin?
Don't tar others with that brush! On Plusnet openreach based full fibre I pay for 900 Mbps and I get ~930.
As for the OP,
You're surely overthinking this. For day-today web browsing etc you're unlikely to notice much of a speed difference beyond say 100Mbps unless you have specialist requirements. By way of reference, Full quality 4k video streaming is around 25Mbps.
I have a 1Gbps FTTP connection and the only time I'm in danger of touching the sides is when a game download on the Xbox is 50GB. Looking at 2.5Gbps switches and thinking "that's not enough" is datacentre territory.
.......Looking at 2.5Gbps switches and thinking "that's not enough" is datacentre territory.
Look up briefly from the Spec for the conference centre he is working on.... "Datacentre territory" shrugs at this bit and carries on 😉
Joking aside though, a decent 1Gb switch will be more than enough and may actually stop one device/client grabbing more than their fair share (for example on Christmas day when they plug in the latest console and start all the upgrades/downloads). If you want to get ready for the future maybe see if you can get one with a single 10G uplink that plugs in to the router
This is true of DSL, if FTTP is doing this then it is broken.
So I did a speed test yesterday which threw up a couple of interesting things:
1) my mesh system is only connecting to my hardware firewall at 10/100 rather than gigabit speed so I have a cable issue which is potentially going to be c complete PITA as the ONT and firewall are in a different building to the house 🙄
2) a PC connected to the firewall with cat 5e is getting 150 Mbps but connected directly to the ONT is getting 218mbps - so the [sonicwall] firewall is slowing things down.
3) according to zen I'm still within acceptable speed:
"To answer your question, normally with a full fibre service such as the 300 or 500 packages that we sell, the minimum guaranteed speeds are normally around half of the listed package speeds. For instance, the 300 package would be a minimum guaranteed speed of around 150 MBPS.
Based on the details in your email, the speeds seem to be within the expected ranges.
The speeds can fluctuate, which may be why your speed directly connected to the ONT is lower."
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I'm on zen 500, always measures above that, usually something between 550 - 650
"the minimum guaranteed speeds are normally around half of the listed package speeds"
Hardly a Zen like answer! I have never used them, but I thought their support was supposed to be good. In all honesty, I would not settle for an answer like that. I have just run another speedtest and am still getting more than my 500Mbps download*. Commercially, my clients (EMEA so not all small UK sites) expect the speeds to be within 10% of the contracted speed on fibre circuits.
That said, you clearly have other challenges which need to be resolved.
*All my testing is over Wi-Fi although I am with 6 meters of the router and have clear line of sight.
I have just run another speedtest and am still getting more than my 500Mbps download
They only guarantee about 50% of the speed you pay for, so I'm only guaranteed 150mbps - we are very rural and at the end of the line although I'm not sure that makes a whole lot of difference.
Distance shouldn't be an issue but sharing backhaul bandwidth could be. If the exchange or the fibre to your cluster of premises is fully subscribed then only seeing your guaranteed minimum speed would be expected. I'm surrounded by holiday homes so at the moment I'm sharing backhaul with a load of empty properties.
I'm surrounded by no-one!
Anyway, zen have emailed again and said I should be within 10% of the max so I need to try a couple of things.