What in the name of christ are you using a Cat 8 cable for?
Nice speeds, I’m waiting for FTTH to be installed in my area, according to the openeir map I’m on the list to be done by 2026.
Incredible what happens when a company actually invests in its network as opposed to letting it rot whilst numerous hedge funds bilk any profits from its (largely taxpayer funded) infrastructure like eir.
i get the same from a cat 5e
What’s that costing you per month?
Cat5e would be enough
> Cat 8 Ethernet Cable
The salesman saw you coming
Clearly there is an employer somewhere missing a roll of CAT8.
Awesome speeds, will suffice for pretty much anything.
I am currently on 4G by Three.
My current setup is a nightmare: I found best location for mobile signal in the house using android app.
Placed modem there, the modem is connected to router.
Router is wired to powerline socket.
My TV, PS5, Nvidia Shield is wired to this powerline.
I have about 6 hotspots around the house.
It’s a bit of a shitshow currently.
National Broadband sent me an update on the rollout and quietly added another two years to the estimate they gave a year ago. They should have it installed 2025-2026… but, you know, there’s sure to be more delays. It’s criminal at this stage.
You’ll finally be able to stream porn in 4k
I’ve the same result with cat 5e and virgin gigabit connection!
I try to hard wire everything in the house
I went from 5 to 150 in Cavan because we switched from Three to Imagine
1gig fiber to the home connection? No need for cat 8 , cat 5e will do just as good..
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Edit: Just seen you confirmed connection to be 1 gig…
Pulling 560 mbps Dwn and 92 mbps up on a wireless AC- 88 U router. If I stick a CAT 5 in it I get the full 1000mbps
Eir gigabit connection
What I hate most about broadband providers is their upload speed, it’s pathetic. I have seen countries like Spain that have even 1000Mbps symmetrical.
50Mbps is too slow.
I’m on around 22mb with Eir and they make it slower every year or two. The internet becomes really unreliable, I phone up, they tell me if they reduce the speed, it’ll be more stable, rinse and repeat next year
My big problem with Virgin is the cost. For the first year with Virgin it’s €74 per month but €114 after that, were as with Eir is only €59 pm with a 2 year contract for 1G internet+TV
According to the anything I can find, the super hub 4 has only gigabit ethernet ports. Cat 8 won’t provide any additional benefit over cat5e or cat 6. Still, doesn’t hurt.
Speedtest can game their numbers. What speeds do you get from fast.com? (it’s Netflix.com in disguise so subject to the same throttling or shaping of ‘normal’ internet traffic)
Nothing to do with the cable, I get 980Mbps with 2ms ping using cat5. It’s deadly though, I remember dial up.
I feel your joy.
I ran speed test out of sheer pleasure for weeks after getting 1Gb
For a gig down, I’d be expecting far far more than fifty up.
Ah so this is where its at, I’ve had 10-20mbps for years with vodafone and now sky…
Cries in 1.2mbps
The cat8 will make no difference what so ever, the virgin media hub 4 does only support 1gbps Ethernet a normal cat5e will get the same results.
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What in the name of christ are you using a Cat 8 cable for?
Nice speeds, I’m waiting for FTTH to be installed in my area, according to the openeir map I’m on the list to be done by 2026.
Incredible what happens when a company actually invests in its network as opposed to letting it rot whilst numerous hedge funds bilk any profits from its (largely taxpayer funded) infrastructure like eir.
i get the same from a cat 5e
What’s that costing you per month?
Cat5e would be enough
> Cat 8 Ethernet Cable
The salesman saw you coming
Clearly there is an employer somewhere missing a roll of CAT8.
Awesome speeds, will suffice for pretty much anything.
I am currently on 4G by Three.
My current setup is a nightmare: I found best location for mobile signal in the house using android app.
Placed modem there, the modem is connected to router.
Router is wired to powerline socket.
My TV, PS5, Nvidia Shield is wired to this powerline.
I have about 6 hotspots around the house.
It’s a bit of a shitshow currently.
National Broadband sent me an update on the rollout and quietly added another two years to the estimate they gave a year ago. They should have it installed 2025-2026… but, you know, there’s sure to be more delays. It’s criminal at this stage.
You’ll finally be able to stream porn in 4k
I’ve the same result with cat 5e and virgin gigabit connection!
I try to hard wire everything in the house
I went from 5 to 150 in Cavan because we switched from Three to Imagine
1gig fiber to the home connection? No need for cat 8 , cat 5e will do just as good..
​
Edit: Just seen you confirmed connection to be 1 gig…
Pulling 560 mbps Dwn and 92 mbps up on a wireless AC- 88 U router. If I stick a CAT 5 in it I get the full 1000mbps
Eir gigabit connection
What I hate most about broadband providers is their upload speed, it’s pathetic. I have seen countries like Spain that have even 1000Mbps symmetrical.
50Mbps is too slow.
I’m on around 22mb with Eir and they make it slower every year or two. The internet becomes really unreliable, I phone up, they tell me if they reduce the speed, it’ll be more stable, rinse and repeat next year
My big problem with Virgin is the cost. For the first year with Virgin it’s €74 per month but €114 after that, were as with Eir is only €59 pm with a 2 year contract for 1G internet+TV
According to the anything I can find, the super hub 4 has only gigabit ethernet ports. Cat 8 won’t provide any additional benefit over cat5e or cat 6. Still, doesn’t hurt.
Speedtest can game their numbers. What speeds do you get from fast.com? (it’s Netflix.com in disguise so subject to the same throttling or shaping of ‘normal’ internet traffic)
Nothing to do with the cable, I get 980Mbps with 2ms ping using cat5. It’s deadly though, I remember dial up.
I feel your joy.
I ran speed test out of sheer pleasure for weeks after getting 1Gb
For a gig down, I’d be expecting far far more than fifty up.
Ah so this is where its at, I’ve had 10-20mbps for years with vodafone and now sky…
Cries in 1.2mbps
The cat8 will make no difference what so ever, the virgin media hub 4 does only support 1gbps Ethernet a normal cat5e will get the same results.