[SOLVED] Trying to get 2gb internet

[Nightfall27]

So I emailed my ISP about going from the 1gb speed to 2gb. I got this reply.

"I spoke with our outside plant manager, he said we don’t offer just a 2 gb speed, however if you wanted to, we would just sign you up to have a second 1 gig service installed in the home. It would be like an upstairs/ downstairs, split home situation, where someone is in the basement signed up for 1 gig and someone upstairs is also signed up for 1 gig, that 1 home would basically be a 2 gig service"

Now I get that that would mean all added together I would have "2 gigs" coming into the house... but is there a way to actually combine that speed onto 1 router? Seems like I would just have two separate 1gb lines coming into the house. Thanks for any tips.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

No. They are not additive. Two 1Gb lines are two 1Gb lines. You would not have "2 gigs" coming into the house. And no, you cannot combine them to get a higher rate.

 

[Nightfall27]

No. They are not additive. Two 1Gb lines are two 1Gb lines. You would not have "2 gigs" coming into the house. And no, you cannot combine them to get a higher rate.

Unfortunately that whats I figured. Thanks.

 

[kanewolf]

No. They are not additive. Two 1Gb lines are two 1Gb lines. You would not have "2 gigs" coming into the house. And no, you cannot combine them to get a higher rate.

True, but with a multi-WAN router, you could bring both 1GE service into a single router. Then if you had two devices using the service, they could each get 1GE. No device would get greater than 1GE, but if you have many users, you can get higher aggregate bandwidth.

 

[microtank]

I have no idea why or what you need that for, and to me that’s beyond absurd. But meh. Might as well start multiple businesses... but you might want to look into channel bonding. And that’s if your Ethernet cables can do 2000 megabits, and if you’re on wireless... like... you’d literally run out of stuff to download and you spending so much money if it’s a place of residence... like why?.. but ya your ping determines your speed, and you bandwidth determines how much data you can transfer per second.. I’m not seeing why for a place of residence

 

[Nightfall27]

I have no idea why or what you need that for, and to me that’s beyond absurd. But meh. Might as well start multiple businesses... but you might want to look into channel bonding. And that’s if your Ethernet cables can do 2000 megabits, and if you’re on wireless... like... you’d literally run out of stuff to download and you spending so much money if it’s a place of residence... like why?.. but ya your ping determines your speed, and you bandwidth determines how much data you can transfer per second.. I’m not seeing why for a place of residence

I moved from a big city to a very small town out in the middle of nowhere. I had a 300MB connection in the big city with like a 15 ping (in Overwatch), to a 1GB connection in the small town with a 70-80 ping (in Overwatch). I have a netgear nighthawk C7800 modem/router, and I use Cat 8 cable to my computer. I would just like a better ping. I pay $65 of month for the gig internet (which is really more like 500mb internet), so if they could actually double it paying double would be fine with me... if it helped my ping.

 

[Gam3r01]

I moved from a big city to a very small town out in the middle of nowhere. I had a 300MB connection in the big city with like a 15 ping (in Overwatch), to a 1GB connection in the small town with a 70-80 ping (in Overwatch). I have a netgear nighthawk C7800 modem/router, and I use Cat 8 cable to my computer. I would just like a better ping. I pay $65 of month for the gig internet (which is really more like 500mb internet), so if they could actually double it paying double would be fine with me... if it helped my ping.

Increasing your speeds is not going to impact your latency.

 

[Nightfall27]

Increasing your speeds is not going to impact your latency.

Well.... guess I'm stuck where I'm at then hah