andruoid

I was sent a letter from my ISP regarding enhanced services. 250Mbps will arrive in March 2012.

Now consider the average laptop. Max. wireless speeds are generally 150Mbps. Now that we are approaching speeds that surpass that we have 3 choices to benefit from these speeds:

1. Buy a USB with dual antennas to get 300Mbps. A bit of a pain, having something sticking out the side of a portable device, imho. It is a cheap solution though.
2. Buy a expensive laptop that has dual antennas.
3. plug into a Gbit ethernet port, which defeats the benefit of portability.

Point is, I hope the hardware we buy is not going to fall behind the services that are being made available.

Vehtemas

Anything above 50 MBPS is surreal if you ask me and I don't think you would ACTUALLY be able to tell a difference (as long as it is 50 MBPS dedicated and not shared).

Although I agree, right now my PC supports 150 MBPS with its internal wireless card, and my router can go up to 300 MBPS. Also, I didn't spend the extra cash to get gigabit ports because if I can connect faster than wired it really wasn't useful to me.

Anyways yeah, we will eventually surpass our current speeds with available network speeds, but then it will just become the new norm. Remember when dial-up started dying and everyone was freaking out? Ethernet and wireless stepped in near seamlessly to fix the issue, I imagine something will do the same thing for > 150-300MBPS wireless.

andruoid

I just went from 50/3 Mbps to 100/5 Mbps yesterday, only a $10 monthly difference. 500GB cap but I don't approach that. Immediate difference in speed though I do have a busy home net:

6 laptops
1 desktop
6 smart phones
1 Wii with Netflix
1 PinoyTV
2 3DS units

... a lot of people in here doing a lot of bandwidth ;-)

Vehtemas

Maybe there is a big difference, not sure.

I don't know how you don't approach 500 GB, my 15 MBPS system gets to well over 250 gigs a month...

Holy crap I just looked and I hit 709 gigs last month...

9to5cynic

Well, sense this thread is for boasting our ISP speeds () I'm sitting here on a 26.4KB line. Yeah that's right.

Also, I would say that the usb dongle wouldn't be *too* intrusive, but sure, I'd be more a pain than without. Though, for most things both speeds are really nice.

andruoid

Maybe I could be your ISP 9to5, I'll just set a server up ...you'd be my only client so I could get you up to at least 28.8 ;-)

mikedt

Is that just your usage or the whole household?

Myself I use probably 50-60 a month, and I'm downloading movies most days because TV sucks. mostly SD not HD movies though.

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Last edited by mikedt; December 9th, 2011 at 08:21 AM.

Vehtemas

Whole household, who is JUST me hahaha.

I download a lot of videos...