Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36091343)

Our broadband has always been super reliable and plenty fast enough. I accept not everyone gets this quality of service, I have friends on VM who aren't so fortunate, and one in particular who has fairly regular issues (though given their job they have fairly exceptional needs where something that the average person would shrug off, they can't as it affects their work).

Speeds have got such I'd rather have a price cut than another speed upgrade.

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36091344)

Me too, and I'm only on 100M :D

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 36091345)

Likewise. Our 100M is rock solid, always full speed and plenty adequate for our needs.

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36091343)

Our broadband has always been super reliable and plenty fast enough. I accept not everyone gets this quality of service, I have friends on VM who aren't so fortunate, and one in particular who has fairly regular issues (though given their job they have fairly exceptional needs where something that the average person would shrug off, they can't as it affects their work).

Speeds have got such I'd rather have a price cut than another speed upgrade.

Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 36091288)

the shubs have and always will be free because VM need to provide accessibility to their network (modem). Hopefully production has caught up post covid disruption and it is now best practise to swap out all shubs with a shub 4. I really do hope that a shub 5 will come out next year with 2.5gbit ports. VM must be working on it now because they have hit a limit for the first time in about 20 years. They can't increase the speed on the services they offer until they provide a shub with greater than 1gbit ports. I imagine they are pulling their hair out thinking about it because the other thing they need to do is educate customers because 99.9% of people are going to continue to have gigabit nics in their pcs/laptops etc for many years to come and you can just imagine the calls to tech support with customers saying they can only get 800mbits on their 2gbit connection which is less than half the speed. I think it is going to have to be a combination of an easy to digest email upon tier signup as well as troubleshooting guides on the website and probably lengthy and annoying voice messages you have to listen to when you ring up tech support before they put you through to someone.

Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 36091288)

I imagine they are pulling their hair out thinking about it because the other thing they need to do is educate customers because 99.9% of people are going to continue to have gigabit nics in their pcs/laptops etc for many years to come and you can just imagine the calls to tech support with customers saying they can only get 800mbits on their 2gbit connection which is less than half the speed.

Originally Posted by rtho782 (Post 36091647)

So, many high end AMD x570 boards and Intel z490/z590 boards have >1Gbit LAN now, either 2.5G or in some cases 5G/10G.

This is a niche right now, but in a couple of years it will be a higher percentage, and I'd submit that the category of people likely to spring for a 2.2Gbit connection are far more likely to have a recent high end PC.

Mine has 2.5G, but I'm really not a fan of RJ45 over 1GBit, the 10GB core section of my home network all uses SMF SFP+ modules, the 1G segment uses Cat6 mostly for PoE (Cameras, APs). My router has 10G SFP+ WAN and LAN.

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 36091661)

I'd have said all high end boards would have atleast 1Gbit ethernet now, ive not seen a board with 100mb ethernet in a very long time.

I have put a Realtek 2.5GB card in my PC for GB internet, the card was only £19 on sale from Amazon and it works a treat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-Gigabi...%2C176&sr=8-14

Thats the card im using.

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 36091661)

I'd have said all high end boards would have atleast 1Gbit ethernet now, ive not seen a board with 100mb ethernet in a very long time.

I have put a Realtek 2.5GB card in my PC for GB internet, the card was only £19 on sale from Amazon and it works a treat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-Gigabi...%2C176&sr=8-14

Thats the card im using.

Originally Posted by pythagoras (Post 36091670)

I was recently trying to trouble shoot the internet connection on my sons smart tv. Its 2021 lg oled TV CX 55" (so very expensive and latest model) I couldn't get over 90Mb over ethernet but full 540 over wifi. Turns out these TVs only have 100Mb ethernet ports.......in 2021!!!!!

Originally Posted by ash45 (Post 36091930)

my sony TV is the same 75" 2020 android model only has Fast Ethernet (100) but worst of all its run via a USB 2 bus and barely gets over 35-40meg, where as the wifi can max my 500meg out when close the wifi but the location of my Router makes the wifi a bit touch and go so it stutters to hell when trying to play some 4K content via plex, keep saying i need to invest in a decent mesh system but something always pops up that's more important lol,
really though these days especially on expensive sets they shouldn't be cheeping out on a few pence on the ethernet i also have a samsung 55" from i believe 2014 was one of the first 4K TVs no HDR or anything and even that actually did have Gbit ethernet

Originally Posted by rtho782 (Post 36091931)

Yeah I have a Sony TV with Fast Ethernet too, I used Wifi on it for a bit but have now given up and use an nVidia Shield.

I have some 4k encodes on Plex that are over 100mbit!