I changed my Internet plan to a 10 Gbps one. But I didn’t know that this speed can only be delivered over cable. I only just realized that Wi-Fi has a limited speed, and the devices in my house do too.
Knowing that, I’d like to buy a cable. But which one do I need? Cat5? Cat6? Cat8?
And if my laptop is limited, what do I need to replace? Network card? Isn’t there an adapter? I’m terrified of opening this laptop.
There’s not much you can do if you have bottlenecks at any point in the network chain.
If your router is Gigabit or 2.5 Gbps, it already won’t reach 10 Gbps. If you’re using the modem they themselves provided, I imagine it has a 10 Gbps ethernet port, but your laptop would also need to have a 10 Gbps port. And unfortunately it’s not just a matter of swapping the physical port, you’d have to replace the entire network interface (which is not trivial on a laptop. On a desktop, you could buy an external network card, PCI Express.)
The theoretical limit of WIFI6/6E is 9.6 Gbps. In real life, right next to the router/modem (assuming it’s at least WIFI6 or 6E), it should reach a few Gbps.
But wow, where do you even get 10 Gbps? Do you live in South Korea, Japan?