- Jun 23, 2015
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Ok guys I really cannot believe I am asking this, but I am a total noob when it comes to anything networking.
Our family has an internet plan with 30 megabit download speeds. So, that means that in an ideal world (if kids aren't online gaming, nobody else is downloading anything anywhere else in the house, no signal loss), anything I am downloading is going to come in at 30 megabits per second, correct?
This is where I am confused, my spouse claims we do not need a gigabit router because our internet speed is not even CLOSE to gigabit speeds. But in theory we could achieve gigabit speeds on our _internal_ network if we had gigabit equipment right? So say I wanted to transfer a bunch of videos from my kid's computer to mine, or if I had a movie on my desktop that I wanted to stream to my TV, this is all happening internally. that could be transferred at 1 gigabit in a perfect world with all gigabit equipment right (since we aren't doing anything outside of our network)
my kid has also been complaining about gaming speeds... so this is where the discussion came from about upgrading the router. as long as the internet speed is 30 megabits we aren't going to see any improvement with a gigabit router vs our current 300 mbit router correct? he claims the router is crap and plugging in to the wall makes all the difference but I am calling BS on that. signal is usually pretty good in his room.
anyway again, sorry about the embarassingly novice questions but this will really clear up a lot,thanks!
Our family has an internet plan with 30 megabit download speeds. So, that means that in an ideal world (if kids aren't online gaming, nobody else is downloading anything anywhere else in the house, no signal loss), anything I am downloading is going to come in at 30 megabits per second, correct?
This is where I am confused, my spouse claims we do not need a gigabit router because our internet speed is not even CLOSE to gigabit speeds. But in theory we could achieve gigabit speeds on our _internal_ network if we had gigabit equipment right? So say I wanted to transfer a bunch of videos from my kid's computer to mine, or if I had a movie on my desktop that I wanted to stream to my TV, this is all happening internally. that could be transferred at 1 gigabit in a perfect world with all gigabit equipment right (since we aren't doing anything outside of our network)
my kid has also been complaining about gaming speeds... so this is where the discussion came from about upgrading the router. as long as the internet speed is 30 megabits we aren't going to see any improvement with a gigabit router vs our current 300 mbit router correct? he claims the router is crap and plugging in to the wall makes all the difference but I am calling BS on that. signal is usually pretty good in his room.
anyway again, sorry about the embarassingly novice questions but this will really clear up a lot,thanks!
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