Connection PC Wifi or LAN ?

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New PC will have WiFi 6E that will give me up to  5.4G/bs

I know that the EE hub  is not going to give me that .... it quotes 1.6GB/s, for WiFi is there a specific setting I need to apply to get this ? ..... PC is only 3m away.

Alternatively, I could put in a new ethernet cable and use the 1 GB LAN  port, but would prefer  WiFi (no cable) if it will match ethernet cable.

Appreciate it will all be throttled by 800GB service anyway, 

[XRaySpeX]

OIC! Just seen you've just added that you are on the BT 900 Meg plan. Well, you won't get 1.6 Meg WiFi from your BT router anyway.

[JimM11]

@Profile closed Info below.

When Wi-Fi 6 CAN deliver the goods: If you have a brand new Wi-Fi 6
client device and a brand new Wi-Fi 6 router and are using both in the same room (and both devices
are very close to each other) there is a high likelihood that the two devices will negotiate an initial 160
MHz channel width (for non-Apple devices only). Throughput can be as high as 80% of the 2401 Mbps
PHY speed (or around 1900 Mbps) -- which is very nice! However, this only happens when the client
device and router are very close to each other (in my testing, four feet away) -- and once you start
adding distance or walls, the two Wi-Fi 6 devices will 'slow down' significantly and communicate with
each other at much closer to Wi-Fi 5 speeds.
Technically, Wi-Fi 5 also supported 160 MHz channels, but it was rare to see a battery
powered client device support 160 MHz channels. For some reason, that appears to have
changed in Wi-Fi 6, where support for 160 MHz channels (even in battery powered client
devices) now appears very common (but not for Apple devices).

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I know I won’t get 1.6Gb internet connection, as max would be 900Mb

My question was … as EE advertise 1.6Gb WiFi … purely in terms of connection between PC  & router, will this quoted 1.6Gb connection be better than a 1Gb Ethernet.

[XRaySpeX]

It'll probably be faster close to the router but fall off faster with distance. EE advertises 1.6 GB BB, not WiFi.

[JimM11]

@Profile closed The quoted is on paper, if you buy the GByte package, then you will only get that speed..... You cannot get any more than you can put down the pipe, your ethernet will show 1000/1000, but you will get what it can respond to on the internet broadband and all the variables, similar your 5400 wifi, you will get somewhere around the 800-900 mark if possible.

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I had seen EE ad  https://ee.co.uk/broadband/full-fibre

I appreciate I won't get an internet connect higher than 900Mb/s, as that is what I have bought.

So the connection from PC to Router on WiFi should be in excess of GigE ethernet then throttled by 900Mb/s pipe.

I'll test when I build up new PC built this weekend.

It is a pity Smart Hub does not support 2.5GB Lan ports as that is now standard on new PC's using Cat6 connections.

[XRaySpeX]

You're ignoring the "Up to" in "Up to 1.6 Gig". Only the 1.6 Gig plan of all the Full Fibre plans can achieve that but you don't have that.

The speed is throttled to 900 Meg by your BB plan even before it gets to the WiFi between the router & your PC.