"Full Fibre" connection and Router Capability - will mine hack it?

[dna]

Any network experts out there?

We are now being offered full fibre connection packages to replace our existing FTTC connection. I have a TP Link router rather than the official BT one mainly because it performs better and it allows me to have a guest network for our B&B guests. Coincidentally I have recently noticed the demand from guests increasing and taking up more of our link capacity (probably watching catch up TV etc on tablets).

My question is can anyone translate the list of standards supported by the router into what is the maximum inbound speed the router can handle?

Thank you in advance!

David

 

[Silver-Fox]

Out of interest will it be fibre into your house?

We’re with Virgin and the fibre stops at their distribution box as did our BT supply

 

[Two on Tour]

We were on FTTC in our village, but the cabinet was at the other end of the village to us.
I swapped out EE router for the same D-Link router as you have and improved the speed ,but we could still only get about 14mbps.
We went for FTTP (fiber to the property) when it became available and opted for the 150mbps.
We are using the supplied BT Smart Hub 2 and we are getting the full 150mbps at the BT router.

 

[Odd-no-more]

I have swapped to Toob, full fibre 900mbs, the engineer who installed it tested it and showed me the speed the full 900, with my TP router I only get 100mbs through a wired connection to my old PC and about 25mbs at my wifi phone. I'm not worried and have no plans to upgrade the router, or even fit the Toob one. The speed I have is already more than my needs so any faster would make no difference

 

[TheBig1]

I have swapped to Toob, full fibre 900mbs, the engineer who installed it tested it and showed me the speed the full 900, with my TP router I only get 100mbs through a wired connection to my old PC and about 25mbs at my wifi phone. I'm not worried and have no plans to upgrade the router, or even fit the Toob one. The speed I have is already more than my needs so any faster would make no difference

if you are running over standard ethernet to the PC it will be limited by that to 100mb

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[autorouter]

if you are running over standard ethernet to the PC it will be limited by that to 100mb

You could upgrade the wire from CAT5 or CAT5E to CAT6 or CAT7, that would give you the possibility of 1000Mb/s. However if it's an old PC the Ethernet electronics is probably limited to 100Mb/s so no point in doing that.

 

[Odd-no-more]

100mbs is far more than I need and far more than my old PC can handle

 

[autorouter]

We are now being offered full fibre connection packages to replace our existing FTTC connection. I have a TP Link router rather than the official BT one mainly because it performs better and it allows me to have a guest network for our B&B guests. Coincidentally I have recently noticed the demand from guests increasing and taking up more of our link capacity (probably watching catch up TV etc on tablets).

Not an expert, but I'd have thought if fibre is coming into your house then you'll need something to translate the fibre-optic signal into wired ethernet, at the very least. If you get the official BT router, you could switch off its wifi capability, and just run a CAT7 cable from its ethernet port to an ethernet input on the TP-Link router. It will probably cope with a 1000Mb/s connection.

 

[Odd-no-more]

with the Toob set up I have what the engineer called a modem on the wall and then it is linked to my router the an ethernet cable

 

[dna]

Thank you everyone. As usual the BT advertising lacks details. Currently I use cat 5e gigabit cable connections to our main pcs, Wi-Fi for phones, tablets etc. Guests only use Wi-Fi. We can easily have about 30 devices active at a time in the evenings.

The option to use the BT hub could be a good one

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[Off da Grid]

When you get full fibre you are basically connecting from the network via Ethernet not your phone cable. You should be able to connect from the fibre box to your wlan ethernet port on the back of your router.
You need to adjust the settings to enable this, as your router will need to be switched from being the connection from the network to being just the network distribution hub to your devices.

The speed that your router can transmit and it’s capacity, the number off connections could be the thing that’s slowing your connections not the speed of your line.

Go to the settings and increase the band width of the 5 ghz to 80 not 40 and the 2.4ghz to 40.
Also try changing the bands each one uses. I have fixed ours so it doesn’t get interference from next door.

 

[dna]

When you get full fibre you are basically connecting from the network via Ethernet not your phone cable. You should be able to connect from the fibre box to your wlan ethernet port on the back of your router.
You need to adjust the settings to enable this, as your router will need to be switched from being the connection from the network to being just the network distribution hub to your devices.

The speed that your router can transmit and it’s capacity, the number off connections could be the thing that’s slowing your connections not the speed of your line.

Go to the settings and increase the band width of the 5 ghz to 80 not 40 and the 2.4ghz to 40.
Also try changing the bands each one uses. I have fixed ours so it doesn’t get interference from next door.

Thanks - I will have a look tomorrow.