Terence EdenVirgin have also upgraded me to Gigabit fibre.
Which, as I wrote a few years ago, is mostly pointless.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/whats-the-point-in-gigabit-broadband/
I wonder when gigabit will actually be useful?
What's the point of Gigabit broadband?
(This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years.) My yearly contract with my ISP has just come to an end, so it was time to shop around for a better deal. They presented me with the following monthly options: Drop to 100Mbps for the same price I'm paying today (£44) Keep at 350Mbps for a tenner more (£55) Rise to 500Mbps for a fiver more (£49) Go to GI…
Anyway, if you want stupid fast Internet, sign up using this link and Virgin will both give us £50.
Using iperf, I can get a max of about 940Mbps between machines on my LAN.
I suspect that might be a limit of my router, USB-C Ethernet Hubs, and ancient cabling.
Most Internet speed tests simply can't handle gigabit connections.
Cloudflare's gets to about 900Mbps which I suspect is about as is good as possible.
But the reality is almost no service on the Internet can support gigabit home connections.
"'ullo John, gotta new router?"
Upgraded my Virgin Media to the newer Hub 5 (turns out the 5x doesn't have modem mode).
I can now get the full 1,130Mbps I'm paying for.
But, still, even though I have Cat6 cables most of my hubs, switches, and ports are only gigabit enabled. Domestic equipment simply can't use anything faster.
WiFi in a congested radio environment isn't going to get close.
Even if it could, most servers can't deliver that quickly.
Yvan@Edent ah, interesting - was the Hub 5 something you had to request from Virgin, or did you just get one elsewhere and set it up? (As per recent discussion was issued with a 5x, with its lack Modem Mode.)
@yvan I already had the Hub 4. I went onto their online chat and whinged about poor download speeds until they sent me a new Hub.
If you're on the XPON network, I don't think you have a choice though.
@Edent ah yeah, just been trying to do some research, but it's all a bit muddy... I'm FTTP/XGS-PON so I think just stuck with the 5x... not an insurmountable problem, just a little annoying. (But compared to unreliable <40mpbs BT rotting fenland copper that cost me more than Virgin... I'm not really complaining.)