cubby
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Post by cubby on Feb 29, 2024 22:38:12 GMT
holy fuck  Stupid bloody disk slowing it down! |
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Post by dfunked on Mar 1, 2024 9:57:21 GMT
Gen 5 nvme is the only solution.
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crashV👀d👀
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Mar 1, 2024 13:19:39 GMT
I wish I was down loading at the speed of my nvme. I'm very happy with this 112megabyte a second though. Massive upgrade from my 8
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Post by rammy18 on Mar 1, 2024 18:55:09 GMT
Megabits, innit?
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Post by dfunked on Mar 1, 2024 18:59:36 GMT
Nah, megabytes in the Steam screenshot above which is what you get with a gigabit connection. Tis very nice, but all too easy to get used to.
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Post by rammy18 on Mar 1, 2024 19:49:35 GMT
Well colour me learned. Ta
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Post by stixxuk on Mar 2, 2024 10:26:06 GMT
Don't know how to post an image but a week on from installation my speed test is telling me just over 900 mbps both up and down.
Didn't expect to actually get the speed I'm paying for!
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Binky
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Post by Binky on Mar 7, 2024 14:09:12 GMT
I'm up and running with the 500mb connection.
How long before Speed Test is boring?
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KD
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Post by KD on Mar 7, 2024 15:26:04 GMT
After you done speed test on all your wired and wireless devices, some drop as low as 115 while it does 900 max on my wired stuff.
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Post by dfunked on Mar 7, 2024 16:17:58 GMT
Yeah, you can get pretty varied results. I can pretty much max mine out on my phone and laptop, but most other wireless stuff can be a bit iffy. The Series X especially is fucking awful (just in terms of speed) over wireless, but I'm too lazy to run a cable around the room.
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Post by stixxuk on Mar 8, 2024 11:30:04 GMT
Series X is shite on wifi or powerline (the latter might be just the quality of my line), might try wiring it into an extender, not sure if that'll be better or worse than direct wifi. Unfortunately it's in a place where I can't really run a wire, it's just too far to be worthwhile.
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Post by jimnastics on Mar 22, 2024 15:35:26 GMT
My parents are throwing in the towel with Sky Fibre, which has been up and down for most of this week. They are out of contract so free to leave. I would get them on to toob / CityFibre but it's not in their road yet.... are there any normal fibre providers who are actually decent? Am I right in thinking plusnet have a good reputation?
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Post by dfunked on Mar 22, 2024 15:38:11 GMT
They used to provide appalling Technicolour routers, but gave a great service if you used your own. Think they just use BT hubs these days which do the job. I'd say yeah, they're a decent shout.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 15:42:18 GMT
I should probably know this myself, but I've got fibre now too and it's 150mbps which is equating to about 5mb per second download on ps5, but not tried pc yet. Compared to about 1.2mb on standard broadband.
But my question is, if I upgrade mine to 900, which is on offer at the minute, do you reckon I'll need cat6 cables or do you think cat5e will be alright? I do have powerline adapters too, and it's not an option to not have those as my house is similar to a town house type layout.
Or, maybe another question - If I'm using powerline adapters anyway, is it worth upgrading anyway? I.e., can the electricity circuits handle super high speeds too, or will they be a bottleneck rendering the whole upgrade useless?
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Post by Vortex on Mar 22, 2024 16:00:37 GMT
Series X is shite on wifi or powerline (the latter might be just the quality of my line), might try wiring it into an extender, not sure if that'll be better or worse than direct wifi. Unfortunately it's in a place where I can't really run a wire, it's just too far to be worthwhile. Late, but this is what I do. The masterplug is too far away to run a cable through the house (although I did get a joiner to look at it), but I have a cable from my whole home extender to the series X. I was getting 650MBps down last night for the Dragon's dogma 2 character creator, so 5GB downloaded in no time. That was better than the usual 350-odd, so possibly dependent on server load. either way it was nice to see it download so fast, when multi-gig downloads used to waste most of an entire evening if a big update was required for something you wanted to play. FTTP is the best thing ever imo. Just need to find a decent deal with a provider at the 500MB-ish level to cut costs a smidge. |
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Post by dfunked on Mar 22, 2024 16:02:15 GMT
Depends on the house and the quality of wiring, but I'd say you're pretty unlikely to get the most out of that kind of connection with power line adapters.
It kind of depends on what you're doing with the cable imo. If it's just a temporary cable snaked untidily around a room, then yeah any old cat 5e will be absolutely fine. If it's something more permanent involving drilling/trunking etc then I'd spend a bit more money on getting decent quality shielded cables and future proof it a bit by going for something higher spec than 5e.
5e is absolutely fine for gigabit networks mind you, and should work for 10Gb if it's a short run. So even that is fairly future proof in fairness.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 22, 2024 16:04:51 GMT
Cat5e has a theoretical 1Gbps limit I think. But I suspect anything will be quite variable in older houses over powerline. Depending on what you have, I'd be looking to upgrade the powerlines first.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 16:07:02 GMT
Nice one, and yes, I've just been checking any bottleneck.
Cat5e can handle 1gb so that's sorted
I've got 4 powerline adapters in total. Two of which are also gigabit. The other two are 600, so I'd have to replace them.
Just gonna have to trust the electric cables as I'm not bloody rewiring the house just for a bit more speed!
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 16:07:54 GMT
So 45 quid for 2 more powerlines and I should be OK. Sod it, might as well give it a go eh
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 16:13:14 GMT
Depends on the house and the quality of wiring, but I'd say you're pretty unlikely to get the most out of that kind of connection with power line adapters. It kind of depends on what you're doing with the cable imo. If it's just a temporary cable snaked untidily around a room, then yeah any old cat 5e will be absolutely fine. If it's something more permanent involving drilling/trunking etc then I'd spend a bit more money on getting decent quality shielded cables and future proof it a bit by going for something higher spec than 5e. 5e is absolutely fine for gigabit networks mind you, and should work for 10Gb if it's a short run. So even that is fairly future proof in fairness. Cheers, and yeah, all my cable lengths are short. It's more room to room connectivity rather than a backbone running through the house. The electric cabling can't be that bad as I've been getting what roughly what you should get on standard broadband and its shot right up with fibre so I reckon it's worth a shot |
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 16:14:29 GMT
Cat5e has a theoretical 1Gbps limit I think. But I suspect anything will be quite variable in older houses over powerline. Depending on what you have, I'd be looking to upgrade the powerlines first. Yeah, I've just come to the same conclusion and checked and I have 2 adapters that need upgrading but I reckon I'm still going to go for it. I mean, the 900 package is *still* cheaper than my old broadband, so, fuck it |
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Post by Dougs on Mar 22, 2024 16:15:39 GMT
I don't know how common conflicts are between powerlines, so I'd be looking to get the same...
(My experience is less than stellar...2 worked brilliantly, 2 (Xytel) were crap!)
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Post by dfunked on Mar 22, 2024 16:16:17 GMT
Ah right, yeah 5e is absolutely fine in that case. The bottleneck will most likely be with the power line adapters, not that.
Even if they say they're gigabit, you'd be lucky to get that much out of them depending on your house's wiring.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 16:18:15 GMT
I don't know how common conflicts are between powerlines, so I'd be looking to get the same... (My experience is less than stellar...2 worked brilliantly, 2 (Xytel) were crap!) Yup, I've had similar fun with the twats in the past! I'm kinda getting used to them now though and I've found some really good ones. I'll see how they behave with the replacement ones I'm going to get. House is going to be fucking full of spare powerline adapters at this rate |
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 16:19:34 GMT
Ah right, yeah 5e is absolutely fine in that case. The bottleneck will most likely be with the power line adapters, not that. Even if they say they're gigabit, you'd be lucky to get that much out of them depending on your house's wiring. Cool, yeah, that's where I'm at now, thinking wise. Yeah, I don't expect miracles, but something between 500 and 900 is absolutely fine for the sake of about 50 quid. And 44 quid of that is a one off cost |
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Post by Nitrous on Mar 22, 2024 16:32:46 GMT
Can also use an ethernet switch should that be an option for rooms with more than one wired device.
Drilled a slightly bigger hole in the bottom corner of the wall at our house when we moved in and taped up the end and shoved the cable through the wall.
Edit: this could be completely incorrect but I'm sure I read it wasn't advisable to use power line adaptors on extension leads.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 17:26:05 GMT
Yeah they say to plug them into clean sockets which I do.
The way I've got mine setup is router in living room, and ps4 is wired to that. Alexa is wifi to it. Then I run another lead to a powerline adapter.
Music room has another powerline and that just does a wire to my laptop.
Spare room is the same going to my pc.
Then another in the attic that goes to an 8 port switch which handles telly, receiver, ps5, switch, wii, ps3 etc.
It's been absolutely faultless for 5 years straight now but just need to sort those 2 powerlines out that can only handle up to 600mbps I reckon
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Post by zephro on Mar 23, 2024 11:57:30 GMT
I've just made the jump from Virgin to Community Fibre. The download isn't a revelation as I was on 600Mbps and I'm getting 600-700 right now on the "up to 1Gb", but my god upload speeds of 800Mbps.
Best bit it's £26 a month not the £72 Virgin just upped it to, the scalping pricks.
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Post by nazo on Mar 23, 2024 12:23:44 GMT
I should probably know this myself, but I've got fibre now too and it's 150mbps which is equating to about 5mb per second download on ps5, but not tried pc yet. At 150mbps you should be getting at least 15MB/s download so it sounds like something is amiss somewhere. |
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Post by quadfather on Mar 23, 2024 12:44:49 GMT
I should probably know this myself, but I've got fibre now too and it's 150mbps which is equating to about 5mb per second download on ps5, but not tried pc yet. At 150mbps you should be getting at least 15MB/s download so it sounds like something is amiss somewhere. Now you mention in, I've got a really old 6 port switch in the attic. Totally skipped my mind to check the capacity of that. I bet its a little shitty 100mb switch or something. I'll have to check. Cheers for that |
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