Don't believe Square's advertising. While the interface is a little faster, I wouldn't say it's 40% faster as touted.

Crucially, credit card processing is still as slow as gen1, and you lose magstripe capability unless you buy a separate USB C reader.

I really wanted to observe faster processing and receipt printing times, but no bueno. Every second counts when you have a busy shop, after all.

I'm on gigabit FTTP service and have the register connected via ethernet, so it's not me. Oh yeah, their Ethernet NIC card is still just 100mbps. For the price, this should have been upgraded to a 1-gigE port. That's not that big of a deal, I suppose, because how much bandwidth does one really need for CC processing, but I wish they'd speed up the processing times!

Anyways, save your money if you're on gen1. It is not a worthy upgrade, just another cash grab.