On 2022-11-28 09:25, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
Well as far as I can tell, rogers is using the XB8 gateway which has 3 gigabit ports and 1 2.5Gbit port. It uses the 2.5Gbit port to connect to the ONT, so you have no way to get wired connections faster than 1Gbit each plus whatever the wifi does. Having a proper routers able to actually handle 2.5Gbps wired would seem nice. Is it essential? Of course not, very few devices have more than 1Gbps wired ports. It just seems wrong to not have the option.
With 8 Gb now available, we're going to need a significant upgrade in hardware. I have a mini PC with 4 1 Gb ports, though a 2.5 Gb version came out shortly after I got mine. Regardless, 8 Gb is a LOT of bandwidth. I remember when major companies, such as the big banks and IBM would get a 45 Mb DS3. I don't know how a home could use that much and even many businesses couldn't. To just handle 8 Gb would take 10 Gb NICs and enough CPU power to keep up.
I also doubt a single wifi AP will provide coverage for the whole house. For my town house it has been fine, but the new house is bigger. I figure I need at least a couple, and wifi repeaters are a bad idea (they usually waste at least half the bandwidth available).
That depends. The newer APs can do WiFi 6e, which includes the 6 GHz band. If you use that for connecting remotes, and 2.4 & 5 GHz for users, the hit isn't as bad. I also have a single AP for my condo and it covers it and beyond. Regardless, I'd use Ethernet to connect multiple APs, if possible. These days, I could see getting 1 Gb symmetrical over fibre, though it wouldn't be much of an improvement over the 940/32 I'm getting now with a cable modem. Even that is more than I need. BTW, when I first came across fibre in my work, it was only 150 Mb and carried 3 DS3s. That was in 1990. Now, some fibre cables run 400 Gb per wavelength, with well over 100 wavelengths per fibre pair and multiple terabits in the cable. When I first started working in telecom in 1972, some of the equipment I worked on ran at 45.4 b/s!