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Indeed many people, including myself are now in the weird backwards world where the WAN is far faster than the LAN. I have a 3gbps fiber link straight to my ho
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Indeed many people, including myself are now in the weird backwards world where the WAN is far faster than the LAN.
I have a 3gbps fiber link straight to my house. The only machines in the house that can use anything close to it are the ones that hook up to my USB-C docking station which has a 2.5gbps ethernet port. Everything else is WiFi speeds.
EDIT: This was a sudden change. I live rural and for the last 10 years I only had 10-15mbps speeds top, and most recently only by point to point wireless from a tower 5km away.
- bombcar 3y agoThe advantage of a fast WAN is you can put it into a capable router (2.5-5-10g) and break it out into multiple clients who can use it simultaneously even if at only 1g each.
- HPsquared 3y agoThis also applies for wireless technology. My phone generally gets a faster connection via 4G, than via WiFi inside my house (the cable connection is fast, but the WiFi is slow). I think because the 4G connection can always see a tower through a window opening, while the WiFi has to go through multiple walls. (No interest in setting up a mesh network as the 4G is plenty fast enough)