We have fibre Internet coming to our village, I definitely want the 1Gb option, but our house was remodelled in 2007 with structured Cat 5 cabling, which is only capable of 100Mb/s speeds.
Mesh is a compromise and won’t span buildings or go through 6ft thick cotswold stone walls. I’m deciding whether to get a cabling guy to see if they can pull modern cabling through our existing ducting.
If that fails, then I will be stuck with 100Mb/s Internet for ever? 😱
Starlink have removed the cost of purchasing the equipment if you sign a 12 month deal, £75 a month, you get high speed Internet and you get the added bonus of making communists cry. Bargain, really.
Starling would be great and I love it, but in this case it would be a much worse solution with the same distribution issues, unless your suggesting I get 5 dishes and set them up independently in the various sections of the house and outbuildings?
I've just checked speeds, Starlink runs at between 25 - 220 Mb/s
That could be worse than we have with FTTC
I'm looking to get the roaming option for the boat, only £50 a month and only 50GB, but more than adequate for my current needs. But yeah, I though the speeds were higher.
50GB of data transfer?
I do that in a day, I'm not joking 🥺
I'm seriously thinking of getting Starlink for when we go cruising.
I've seen photos of cruisers with a Starlink dish sitting on their balcony 😂
Yeah there's a starlink for boats group on FB, quite a lot of people with experience which vary. I think the available plans have been adjusted a few tines now to take account of the various ways people want to use it.
Mike - CAT5 cable could also quitely be cat5E. Check for that.
That's 4 twisted pair inside, and mucho faster than regular cat5.
Theoretically 1GB depending on local interference. Cat6 is same wiring (4xTP), but with more/better shielding.
Yes I’m having a similar discussion in another part of this thread.
I’m going to do some tests in the coming days.
Thank you 🙏
It looks like powerline devices are easily doing over 1000mbps these days. Could that work? Possibly combined with a mesh network like Asus AIMesh.
Different parts of the house and outbuildings are on different circuits.
I tried powerline options a while ago. They don't work at all here.
Run cables on the floor and ceiling. Wifes are always picky with home staging anyway.
Do you know a good divorce lawyer by an chance? 😂 😂 😂
No but I have a voucher for 50% on large shovels at home depot if you need.
Is there coax cable already strung through walls? You could use MoCA boxes on each end of that (it’ll just cost you).
We actually invented WiFi over Coax (WOC) for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, it was a Chinese company called Cytech.
Why not invent WiFi over spaghetti? Keep innovating!
We only got WiFi working on Linguini, Spaghetti was always a distant dream.
Wow that’s cool. Is it the same? MoCA boxes just turn coax into Ethernet basically. You’d put an AP on the far end.
It was specifically for hotels, they were all wired with TV coax so retro fitting a viable Internet feed directly into each room made Coax compelling.
We replaced the TV aerial socket with a dual output, TV out and a WiFi aerial, with a splitter and filter fitted inside the faceplate with a complimentary mixer and filter down the hall feeding up to 8 rooms with a single signal.
gigabit speeds work well enough in my house with cat-5-only cabling
Really?
That's interesting 🤔
Thanks
BRB
yup, that's all I ever use, got a CAT6 305m package once for a steal, then noticed I couldn't crimp it to my existing plugs because leads were too big. I returned it and got outdoors-rated CAT5 instead.
I do get sub-gigabit speeds, but 60Mb/s during real transfers is good enough for me :)
Do you mean 600Mb/s ?
That would be better than 100Mb/s
I would be happy with that.
ooooh ... we're thinking of visiting the cotswolds this year for a holiday
