Broadband Speed Vs Router Speed

Good day all,

I was thinking of upgrading a network to N (300Mbps) but got to thinking. Could someone please put me right on this.

Broadband speed, paying for 8 meg, getting around 3.5 Megabytes/sec. Network running 54g router, so in theory provides 54 Megabits/sec. 8 bits to a byte (approx) therefore 6.75 Megabytes/sec.

Surely, unless I get a 20 meg broadband deal, the upgrade is pointless???? Have I got the numbers right???

Thanks
Chris

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Hi Chris,

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was thinking of upgrading a network to N (300Mbps) but got to thinking. Could someone please put me right on this.

Broadband speed, paying for 8 meg, getting around 3.5 Megabytes/sec. Network running 54g router, so in theory provides 54 Megabits/sec. 8 bits to a byte (approx) therefore 6.75 Megabytes/sec.

Surely, unless I get a 20 meg broadband deal, the upgrade is pointless???? Have I got the numbers right???

Broadband connections are also measured in megabits (Mb) per second, not megabytes (MB), so you'd need at 55Mbps or faster broadband connection to have a 54Mbps wireless network become a bottleneck.

The real benefit of N-rated wireless routing is improved range, improved technology allowing dead spots to be reduced, and less interference from other wireless networks (assuming your N-rated router is able to run on the 5Mhz radio band). You'd also be able to communicate between computers in your local network more quickly (say when streaming media stored on a desktop machine to a media centre or console).

I hope that answers your question.