Fibre speeds on WiFi for 50mb/100mb connections

[blunt]

Anyone here got a fairly large house (3-5 bedroom across a single story) with 50mb or 100mb fibre, how are your speeds over wifi throughout the house and what wifi hardware are you using to achieve said speeds throughout the house?

 

[grump_grouch]

Don't have fibre but running on LTE (40 to 70Mbps - depending on Telkoms mood at the time). Using an ASUS AC3200 router that comfortably covers the whole house (5 bedrooms and no dead-spots found, yet) and most of the property. Getting a minimum of about 270Mpbs within the house at the furthest points from the router.

 

[agentrfr]

Big flat house with about 30 odd devices connected to the net. 100/100 line, high powered b/g/n/ac with multiple channels active. Wi-Fi in the roof, typically get around 60mbit/s on any device unless underneath the router. On the LAN or standing underneath get the full 100 meg

 

[PBCool]

Best to have a cabled network with multiple APs around your house if a large multifloor property, also cable all fixed devices that need data. Wireless is for convenience and mobile devices . Not performance.

 

[Muttley]

I would suggest getting an enterprise wifi setup!

Have a look at the Unifi range of dual band access points- you won't have any regrets!

Super easy to setup with great performance.

 

[blunt]

Most areas of the house I use are not a problem, was just finding out what others are doing. I have a central UniFi and then a Mikrotik and 2 WiFi extenders, then a Tenda in the garage. Outdoor is very iffy, we're on a slope and that seems to mess with the signal higher or lower.

https://scoop.co.za/ubiquiti-amplifi-hd-wi-fi-router-2-mesh-points.html - looks pretty sweet, but a bit pricey to just buy when I don't -really- need it.

- our house has open ceilings so not much option in the way of "easy" laying of lan cabling all over the house without taking it outside and coming in through each wall.

 

[whatwhat]

100/50 line, get full speed with <6ms latency on any wifi device doing speedtest to a local server.
Multiple APs, wired to a central gigabit switch that goes to a router.

One either needs to be running old network hardare (b/g stuff) or live in a house made of lead to not be able to handle 100Mbps.

 

[Muttley]

Have a look at this:

I haven't tried it but it looks interesting and at R2799 excl it's not too bad.

 

[q12485]

I have used TP-Link AV500(s) power line adapters for a couple of years, never had a problem and connect via ethernet where required or Wi-Fi depending on the units. Plug and play install. Available from Takealot or Matrix and you can add more units to the network if needed.

Used to use Wi-Fi extenders but these units are night and day...

 

[HawkI]

I would suggest getting an enterprise wifi setup!

Have a look at the Unifi range of dual band access points- you won't have any regrets!

Super easy to setup with great performance.

I agree - I have Ubiquiti edge router, switch, cloud key and a few AP's and it is fantastic...

 

[coop]

I have used TP-Link AV500(s) power line adapters for a couple of years, never had a problem and connect via ethernet where required or Wi-Fi depending on the units. Plug and play install. Available from Takealot or Matrix and you can add more units to the network if needed.

Used to use Wi-Fi extenders but these units are night and day...

I have a few of these and when they work they are great. But from time to time, mine will reboot for no reason (only about once a day) and I have had times when they will just stop working. The last time was caused by a dodgy circuit breaker, but it took quiet some time to figure out what caused the problem. We also had a period when they all stopped working for several days after plugging in a fridge.

I'd say if you are in a new-ish house with decent wiring, they will work well. But if like me, your house is close to needing a rewire, then you might want to save your money. I eventually gave up on them and pulled ethernet cable through the house instead.

I now use a Mikrotik - https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-rb750gr3-5-gigabit-port-soho-router.html which works flawlessly along with an 8 port gigabit tp-link switch and several wireless access points. The average wireless throughput is around 30 Mb/s depending on the proximity of the access point.

 

[koeksGHT]

100Mb is not for single use over WiFi generally, it's just sufficient if you have multiple users using.

 

[blunt]

I have a few of these and when they work they are great. But from time to time, mine will reboot for no reason (only about once a day) and I have had times when they will just stop working. The last time was caused by a dodgy circuit breaker, but it took quiet some time to figure out what caused the problem. We also had a period when they all stopped working for several days after plugging in a fridge.

I'd say if you are in a new-ish house with decent wiring, they will work well. But if like me, your house is close to needing a rewire, then you might want to save your money. I eventually gave up on them and pulled ethernet cable through the house instead.

I now use a Mikrotik - https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-rb750gr3-5-gigabit-port-soho-router.html which works flawlessly along with an 8 port gigabit tp-link switch and several wireless access points. The average wireless throughput is around 30 Mb/s depending on the proximity of the access point.

I've had similar experiences with the powerline adaptors, we renovated the whole house and rewired all except for where my router is, and it's not stable and the speeds are not great. I even bought the 600mbit Tenda ones and the connectivity was shyte. The Tenda Wifi extenders work very well and are comparatively quite cheap

 

[blunt]

100Mb is not for single use over WiFi generally, it's just sufficient if you have multiple users using.

yeah, anything over 20mbit for a single user if you're streaming (perhaps 30 if its UHD) / browsing / etc. is not going to be fully utilised unless you are doing a file download. It's just me and my wife in our house which is why I didn't see a point in going for higher than the 20/20 fibre.

 

[whatwhat]

100Mb is not for single use over WiFi generally, it's just sufficient if you have multiple users using.

Yeah, thanks but no thanks. The higher upload on 100MB makes all the difference if you are using cloud syncing/backups.

Besides, time is money. Why wait for something at 20MB when you can pay in the difference of one night's takeout to get it 5 times as fast.

 

[blunt]

Yeah, thanks but no thanks. The higher upload on 100MB makes all the difference if you are using cloud syncing/backups.

Besides, time is money. Why wait for something at 20MB when you can pay in the difference of one night's takeout to get it 5 times as fast.

Personally, at home that stuff is not time critical for me, at 20mbit it's gonna be quick enough.

I guess in time I may become impatient R220 more per month (MTN fibre) for 100mb vs. 20mb doesn't seem worth it to me now. I'd rather have a nights takeout