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lozcozenge's avatar
lozcozenge
Joining in
2 months ago

Will downgrading speeds downgrade the Wifi speed, if the wifi speed is less than the downgraded speed!?

I ordered !gib broadband and that is what the router is reporting as its speed.  But my iPhone wifi speed is less than 500Mbs even when close to the router. My MacMini is only 300Mb (in a different ...
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asim18
Rising star
2 months ago
lozcozenge wrote:

I dont think I will gain the benefit of 1Gig speed unless I cable up all devices in my house. 

 

Do you regularly do tasks on your iPhone which require 1Gb of bandwidth? Remember bandwidth is not the same as speed. The actual speed is the same whether you have 1Gb of bandwidth or 500Mb of bandwidth. A whatsapp call or netflix stream, or other realtime communications will not perform any better. The only scenario where more bandwidth will help you is large bulk downloads, like Steam/PS5 etc.

A single 4K Netflix/Youtube/Prime etc is around 0.04Gbps (40Mbps) at most.

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    lozcozenge
    Joining in
    2 months ago

    No, but thats why I am thinking of downgrading because my devices are not getting more than 500Mb via wifi yet I am paying for a 1Gig service. So if I pay for a 500Mb service, I wanted to know if my wifi devices still get the same < 500Mb wifi they do now.