In the vast majority of cases, users use the operator’s router, a router that in many cases does not provide good wired and wireless performance, however, models such as the Movistar Router Smart WiFi 6 They have shown that this is not always the case. This particular router has a really powerful WiFi network capable of providing us with a speed of up to 1Gbps symmetrical without many problems, logically it is not comparable to powerful Mesh WiFi systems such as those of the manufacturer ASUS or AVM. Today we are going to explain why there is no point in contracting more Internet speed if you are not really going to be able to take advantage of it, and it is that many users think that contracting more fiber speed will get them more, and this is not always the case.
Will you really take advantage of that much speed?
A lot of people think that contracting more Internet speed surf the Internet fasterthis is not entirely correct because many other aspects influence it, such as the connection latencythe way to connect to the Internet (by Wi-Fi or cable) as well as the DNS servers used and even if our PC or device is powerful to load the different websites. It is a mistake to think that by going from 300Mbps to 600Mbps, the websites will automatically load in half the time.
Another common mistake is to think that by contracting a higher speed, the connection of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, among other video streaming services, will no longer be viewed in a lower quality and even to stop the image. If this happens to you, it is probably because of the way you connect your Smart TV or TV Box, and not because of the speed of the Internet, since a 4K resolution only requires a bandwidth of approximately 25Mbps.
You will only take full advantage of the speed, as long as you make these uses:
- Direct downloads from different servers.
- Using P2P download programs.
- Using servers of some kind at home, such as FTP/FTPES servers and even VPN to connect from outside.
- Having a private cloud like Nextcloud at home to be able to quickly synchronize files and folders.
In addition to all this, you should also know if your router will support this new connection and you will be able to make the most of it.
Check the features of the router
For more than a decade, all routers usually have gigabit ethernet ports, as well as the network cards of desktop and laptop computers. Therefore, if you are going to connect your equipment by cable, they will be able to achieve a speed of up to 1Gbps without many problems, unless they are very old equipment and the processor is a bottleneck with the aforementioned use, and even if they have disks hard too slow.
Let’s imagine that you have contracted 300Mbps of speed and you get a real 250Mbps with your mobile, if you think that Going to symmetrical 600Mbps you will get twice the speed over WiFi, you are wrong. It is very important to know the WiFi standards used by both the router and the wireless clients, based on this, you will be able to know the maximum theoretical speed that we will achieve. For example, if you use the Wi-Fi 4 standard, it is very difficult for you to exceed the real 200Mbps, so it does not make sense to increase the speed of fiber. However, using WiFi 5 or WiFi 5 you could get more than 500Mbps in places close to the router.
Do your devices support more speed?
In many cases, the devices we use at home do not usually support more speed than we already have. For example, if we have contracted a speed of 600 symmetrical Mbps, and with no device connected to WiFi we get this speedIf we contract symmetrical 1Gbps with our operator, the speed that we will get with the devices will be exactly the same, because the “bottleneck” is in your own device.
It is also very important to take into account the hardware of our computer, which is generally connected by cable. Note that if we have a 1Gbps connection and use a hard drive as storage, we may not be able to take full advantage of the fiber speed because the hard drive cannot read/write as fast. Of course, the solution to this is to use SSD drives, either SATA3 or NVMe, so as not to have a bottleneck due to the disk used.
In short, you need to think about whether you are really going to take advantage of the new Internet speed, either because of the use you give to the connection and because of the different devices that you can connect to the network by cable and WiFi.
