Just moved into an apartment and was told the apartment should have free 1 gbps internet. However, looking at the situation, it looks like there’s fiber to the apartment, and then that gets fed into a media converter, which does fiber > lan cable, and then that lan gets put into a switching hub so all rooms in the house have access to Ethernet.
The issue is, the items in the house seem to still be from 2009 when the mansion was built.
So the media converter and switch are all 10/100 mbps and don’t support 1 gbps. The Ethernet is cat5e.
Given that, I feel it’s likely it’s 1 gbps (or more, as it was recently upgraded apparently) to the building and then 100 mbps per apartment.
It’s unlikely people will know without first hand experience, but what are the chances upgrading the media converter and switch to something that supports 1 gbps will work? There’s no reason, cable and fiber wise I shouldn’t get better speeds, unless the speed per room is limited by the router in whatever basement room it’s located in.
I saw online (can’t find it now) a Japanese guy did it and got 1 gbps instead of 100 mbps just by upgrading the outdated hardware