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But your home NAS should be on ethernet? Who would buy a NAS and then not wire it in??

The point here is that only devices like a TV, mobile, tablet or laptop should be on WiFi and it's pretty hard to notice the difference between say 50Mbps and 500Mbps on any of those except maybe if you are moving files around on your laptop.

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> But your home NAS should be on ethernet? Who would buy a NAS and then not wire it in??

Your smartphone is not talking to your NAS over Ethernet.

I think you'll find downloading files to your phone from a NAS is like 0.01% type behaviour.

iCloud backups are something normal people do each time they plug in their phone.

50Mb is more than fine for iphone backups.

Family of 4 comes home after a long day out, all plug in their phones at the same time to charge and drop down in the sofa to vegetate in front of Netflix. Why is it buffering so bad?!?

Traffic is bursty. Higher bandwidth connections make the whole internet more efficient - if you can race to idle then servers have fewer concurrent connections to keep track of, routers can more quickly clean up their NAT tables etc etc

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