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Recently upgraded to 1gig internet
Posted on 1/28/25 at 8:50 am
Posted on 1/28/25 at 8:50 am
Do I need a 3.1 modem or will a 3.0 that says it can reach 1 gig be fine?
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Posted on 1/28/25 at 9:35 am to xtremecouture23
Whatever your provider says is the minimum for 1gig. However, 3.0 tops out at 1gig, so if they try to offer you a "free" upgrade to 1.5 or whatever in the future, you won't be able to take advantage.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 9:36 am to xtremecouture23
Who is your service provider?
D3.1 at a minimum but if you are in an area getting faster upload speeds, your modem options might be really slim other than what the ISP gives you.
D3.1 at a minimum but if you are in an area getting faster upload speeds, your modem options might be really slim other than what the ISP gives you.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 9:48 am to notsince98
Optimum. I was going to buy not rent.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 9:52 am to xtremecouture23
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Optimum. I was going to buy not rent.
They are rolling out high-split and D4.0 upgrades. You wont be able to buy a D4.0 modem yet but be sure you get a modem that is approved for their High-split setup or you wont get the faster upload speeds.
Posted on 1/28/25 at 9:56 am to notsince98
Do you any recommendations?
Posted on 1/28/25 at 11:37 pm to xtremecouture23
If your modem isn't also your router, make sure your router can handle that much speed. Over the years my plan got upgraded for free from 100 Mbps to 300 Mbps but my router was limited to 100 Mbps so I downgraded since I couldn't use and didn't really need the extra bandwidth. That may be something to ask yourself, do you need that much bandwidth?
This post was edited on 1/28/25 at 11:38 pm
Posted on 1/29/25 at 4:05 am to TigerinATL
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my router was limited to 100 Mbps
Holy shite, how old is it? I feel like a decade of routers for me have been at 1000Mbps. ETA: on the WAN interface. Current is 2.5G.
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do you need that much bandwidth?
The answer is always no, OP. Do NOT pay attention to the BS that cable providers send you (oh, you need the fastest tier for more than 10 devices.) It's all marketing horseshite.
This post was edited on 1/29/25 at 4:09 am
Posted on 1/29/25 at 8:26 am to LemmyLives
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Holy shite, how old is it?
It's not that old, 5 years maybe? The limit was a setting I could change, but when I saw I was still doing fine with "just" 100 Mbps I looked to see if they had a lower plan since I clearly didn't need 300 Mbps. I'm not sure what you have to be doing to saturate a 1 Gb connection. You'd probably need a lot of kids.
This post was edited on 1/29/25 at 8:28 am
Posted on 1/29/25 at 8:26 am to LemmyLives
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Holy shite, how old is it? I feel like a decade of routers for me have been at 1000Mbps. ETA: on the WAN interface. Current is 2.5G.
You’d be surprised. You can still buy the deco w2400 at Walmart. It is a decent little wifi5 repeater to kill dead spots but the physical ports are 100m meaning it shouldn’t be used as a router anywhere even though that’s what people do with it.
It’s kind of like how car manufacturers will put in tens of millions of dollars of extra effort to downgrade an engine just to differentiate a product.
1g NAT usually requires a dual core cpu least 700mhz. Lots of products are rated gigabit that can only translate 6-700 Mbps through NAT and much less if other features are enabled.
This post was edited on 1/29/25 at 8:48 am
Posted on 1/29/25 at 9:03 am to TigerinATL
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It's not that old, 5 years maybe? The limit was a setting I could change, but when I saw I was still doing fine with "just" 100 Mbps I looked to see if they had a lower plan since I clearly didn't need 300 Mbps. I'm not sure what you have to be doing to saturate a 1 Gb connection. You'd probably need a lot of kids.
100Mbps is definitely good for most households. I had my family of 5 on 50Mbps while I was working from home and 3 kids homeschooled. We didn't have any issues and all 4k streaming never even noticed.
Posted on 1/29/25 at 10:16 am to notsince98
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I'm not sure what you have to be doing to saturate a 1 Gb connection
Lots and lots of video. I don’t see us going above 1g WAN any time in the next 5 years but we did already bottleneck 1g LAN enough to partially upgrade that. I could have just moved a server or ran an extra wire in hindsight.
To even start bottlenecking 1g WAN you need to be processing security video for family or have a large family VPN going for video accounts. You can’t just consume that, you have to be running services.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 1:15 pm to xtremecouture23
For the average user, 300-500 should be the most internet you need. Even the fastest WiFi will realistically will only manage that speed between the router and your device.
On the cable side, until they roll out fiber to the home, you are pretty much stuck a ton of download speed and not enough upload speed.
As we add more Ring Cameras, use Zoom more, and add more IoTs devices more upload speed is needed. I feel for the REV customers that live in South Lafourche that are still not on the Fiber the the Home network yet. The most you can get 300/20 internet. My area was upgraded right before Ida with Fiber to the home and had been great even with just 300/300 service.
On the cable side, until they roll out fiber to the home, you are pretty much stuck a ton of download speed and not enough upload speed.
As we add more Ring Cameras, use Zoom more, and add more IoTs devices more upload speed is needed. I feel for the REV customers that live in South Lafourche that are still not on the Fiber the the Home network yet. The most you can get 300/20 internet. My area was upgraded right before Ida with Fiber to the home and had been great even with just 300/300 service.
This post was edited on 1/30/25 at 1:20 pm
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