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The_Red_Silence's avatar
The_Red_Silence
On our wavelength
2 months ago

The ethernet fast port on Hub 5X

Hello

I have a 350meg fiber connection.

I've 4 devices requiring ethernet connections.

I notice one is a fast port.

If my speed is capped at 350- would I get that speed from it with a compatible device?

My Hisense TV is only getting 100 from it, but that's because the TV port is capped at that.

I also have a sky stream box, a video doorbell chime and a Hive heating system in the mix.

Would any of those benefit from the faster port? Is it even enabled by default or is it irrelevant to me?

Thankyou 

Chris 

  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    2 months ago

    The 10Gbps port is not required with your subscription.

    The other ports are 1Gbps, so more than enough.

  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    Community elder
    2 months ago

    The 10Gbps port is not required with your subscription.

    The other ports are 1Gbps, so more than enough.

    • The_Red_Silence's avatar
      The_Red_Silence
      On our wavelength
      2 months ago

      Thankyou.

      But it is working at 100 with my Smart TV connected to it.

      Is that normal?

       

      • carl_pearce's avatar
        carl_pearce
        Community elder
        2 months ago

        Yes, as TVs have a 10/100, or 100Mbps ethernet port.

  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    Community elder
    2 months ago

    Just to add (Cannot edit posts any more!) that connecting via Wi-Fi can actually result in faster speeds with 'Smart' TVs.

  • The_Red_Silence's avatar
    The_Red_Silence
    On our wavelength
    2 months ago

    Yes I'm getting much faster speeds with WiFi from my hub to my TV. But everyone seems to advocate Ethernet being more than stable enough for what the TV needs.

    • asim18's avatar
      asim18
      Rising star
      2 months ago

      Ethernet is always faster than any WiFi. 

      Even if you are getting 100Mbps over Ethernet and 1000Mbps over WiFi, the ethernet is still technically faster. You get more bandwidth with WiFi but the speed is actually slower.

  • asim18's avatar
    asim18
    Rising star
    2 months ago

    A TV playing 4k will be using no more than 25Mbps. Same with a sky stream box.

    A doorbell may use up to 5mbps upload if being viewed from outside your network. 

    Hive home will not need above 1mbps.

    It's pretty much irrelevant unless you are doing bulk downloads like steam games.

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta
    2 months ago

    10/100 Ethernet sockets are often found on TV equipment these can be slower than 5GHz Wi-Fi,
    the OP appears to be seeing that with their TV.  

    The slower full duplex Ethernet can still be more stable a shared half duplex Wi-Fi connection,
    especially if the Wi-Fi band has to be shared with yoofs and games consoles.

    • asim18's avatar
      asim18
      Rising star
      2 months ago
      Client62 wrote:

      10/100 Ethernet sockets are often found on TV equipment these can be slower than 5GHz Wi-Fi,
      the OP appears to be seeing that with their TV.  

      I did make the distinction between speed and bandwidth in the original post.

      10/100 ethernet sockets have a round trip packet speed of about 0.4ms

      5Ghz wifi, best speed i've ever experiened is 3ms in ideal conditions. That's approx 6 times slower than ethernet.
      in anything less than ideal conditions, its around 5ms. That's about 10 times slower.

       

      If you're only doing bulk downloads and you cant wait, yes, bandwidth is better than speed. But a television is a real-time device, meaning any bandwidth above its maximum streaming video bitrate, is pointless.