Question Optimizing my Fiber Internet versus my ISP’s complimentary gear ?

[Sugar Kaine Mostly]

So recently my apartment building was upgraded with Fiber lines for each resident per floor. It does look a tad ghetto since the optical cables are literally outside each person’s door into their home.

So anyways, I agreed to get a 1Gbps/100Mbps per month. This is a serious improvement over my previous DSL line which I had to use an Asus AX82U DSL router which I could achieve speeds of up to 150Mbps. My internet service provider, upon upgrading to a new Fiber optic protocol gave me a Huawei OptiXstar HG8010Hv6 (PON Terminal) box + a TP-Link AX1800 Dual Band router. These were all complimentary of course since I agreed to a new Fiber optic service. Furthermore, my Asus AX82U was somehow not compatible with the OptiXStar PON terminal given. I then sold the Asus router.

So I spoke with my internet service provider and they said any ‘’new’’ Router I buy such a stronger Wifi6 box or the new Wifi7 routers, that there wouldn’t be a problem. I have numerous TVs and Device in my apartment with an average of 3 devices always in use such as a two 4K TVs, two MacBook Pros, and various phones etc.

I was trying to find a 2.5Gbps PON Terminal hub that I’ve seen from Huawei (which is a higher model than the one given to me by my internet service provider), but it’s so hard to find a seller, and it seems almost exclusive to Asian markets. I then want to buy any new WiFi 6 or WiFi 7 router with a 2.5Gbps WAN + one 2.5Gbps LAN port. I would then probably see a 950Mbps speed achievement whereas now I am only getting 750Mbps with the free ‘’cheap’’ peripherals given by ISP. Any thoughts? The techs somehow acknowledged that their gear was more lower end than other expensive stuff in the market. However, I don’t want to buy new gear redundantly if I will always get a 760MBps signal from them.

Lastly on a tangent, sorry, but my Dell 40 inch Thunderbolt has an RJ45 input that can do 10/100/1K, but I can only achieve 340Mbps from my iPad Air M2. Is this because the iPad is only USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds? Would I achieve 760Mbps if I had an iPad Pro since it has a Thunderbolt 3/4 controller? I say all this because my iPad Air M2 can achieve 760Mbps via WiFi but not when it’s chained to the Dell Thunderbolt hub’s RJ45. This is another reason why I’m considering the newer Dell Thunderbolt model that has an RJ45 with 2.5Gbps LAN.

Any thoughts! Thanks!

 

[bill001g]

Before you get real far off in the tech explain why you need more than 340mbps on your ipad.

What do you do with the device that require more speed. Things like 4k netflix uses 30mbps and having more makes no difference it will never use more than 30mbps. This is true for almost all application on the internet.

The one exception is constant download of large files. I doubt you are running torrent on you Ipad it does not have enough disk space to store all the stolen content.

The only thing you might see a advantage in is downloading large games. With games getting to 20 or even 50Gbyte it takes a while to download this. The question quickly become if you pay $100/month extra and you can now download the game in say 5 minutes rather than 10minutes is this really worth it to you. How often per month do you do this. How many dollars per minutes saved in a month is worth it to you.

So your first question before you start to spend money is what is the problem you currently have that you are trying to solve. Numbers on benchmarks and testing software mean nothing all that matters is do you have issues using your devices to accomplish what you want.

 

[Sugar Kaine Mostly]

Before you get real far off in the tech explain why you need more than 340mbps on your ipad.

What do you do with the device that require more speed. Things like 4k netflix uses 30mbps and having more makes no difference it will never use more than 30mbps. This is true for almost all application on the internet.

The one exception is constant download of large files. I doubt you are running torrent on you Ipad it does not have enough disk space to store all the stolen content.

The only thing you might see a advantage in is downloading large games. With games getting to 20 or even 50Gbyte it takes a while to download this. The question quickly become if you pay $100/month extra and you can now download the game in say 5 minutes rather than 10minutes is this really worth it to you. How often per month do you do this. How many dollars per minutes saved in a month is worth it to you.

So your first question before you start to spend money is what is the problem you currently have that you are trying to solve. Numbers on benchmarks and testing software mean nothing all that matters is do you have issues using your devices to accomplish what you want.

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I do a lot of content creation on the daily, and I also do a lot of cloud based uploading and downloading from clients worldwide. For example I do many freelance video edits using CapCut simply off my iPad M2 or if I’m out I can do edits on my iPhone. So for me workflow speed for uploading or primarily downloading is important. I learned a lot about speeds when a couple months ago I decided to buy 10TB of Google Drive space and finally make the decision to store my important files there. I had uploaded 8TB of data to Google Drive with 150Mbps speeds and it took a good week. with my new plan I can do it all in a couple days.

Also, I can’t have any inch of compromise with live streams. So for example off WiFi, I can do YouTube streams knowing my current home data signal of 700Mbps. I don’t care so much about theory because I’ve done hundreds of trial and error scenarios where I would get drop off or quality degradation with streams that I simply blamed it on the internet service. But the reason why I like to my peripherals to be stationed is because that’s what I was sold. For example my Dell Thunderbolt Monitor has an RJ45 with 1K speeds but I’m only getting 350Mbps. Off WiFi I get double. For me it just bothers me that a WiFi would be better than a Wired connection so my theory is that my iPad M2 is not utilizing full Thunderbolt speeds like an iPad Pro would.

And lastly, I don’t game at all. My internet bill is literally just 20 bucks a month with 1000Mbps service.