Gigabit v 10/100

As long as the router supports speeds of 100mb/s on the WAN interface you should be fine. You will not see a benefit from a gigabit router in terms of internet speed. If you do change to gigabit and connected devices are also capable of gigabit then you will see an increase in streaming media and copying files between devices. I hope that makes sense?
 
it's fine, there was never a problem with the wired side anyway. it was the wireless that was buggy and that was fixed with the last fireware update. the only issue now is the wireless signal strength which was never great to begin with. I've not had a single reboot since i installed the r30 firmware 3 week ago and my modem gets thoroughly worked on both wired and wireless :)
 
n30_mkii said:
As long as the router supports speeds of 100mb/s on the WAN interface you should be fine. You will not see a benefit from a gigabit router in terms of internet speed. If you do change to gigabit and connected devices are also capable of gigabit then you will see an increase in streaming media and copying files between devices. I hope that makes sense?
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Actually, this is incorrect.

With overheads for Ethernet and actual payload from the WAN connection, you'll be needed gigabit to get the last wee bit of bandwidth.
 
This is correct, but the difference would be negligable you would be seeing the 80mb+ so I guess it's up to you, and dependant on if your devices can support gigabit and if your cabling is sufficient.

ots3go said:
Actually, this is incorrect.

With overheads for Ethernet and actual payload from the WAN connection, you'll be needed gigabit to get the last wee bit of bandwidth.
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Just checked, according to the device webpage, the WAN port is also 10/100, so it *should* handle this fine.

With regards to the SuperHub, I have to admit that the wireless side of it was indeed pants. Though the most recent firmwares have improved the stability of this somewhat, I resorted to buying a Wireless Access Point for it. A week after doing that, VM finally rolled out firmware that enabled the router to be used in Bridge Mode. Which means that I can finally go back to using my Draytek 2820VN!!

Though the wired stability of the router was *fine* on the whole, it failed pretty hard on a few counts for me as a router in general. Having to restart every time you added a fixed IP client for one. And not being able to FTP in on port 21... that *really* sucked.

All that being said though, it's not *terrible*, and certainly not as bad as it once was. I don't know what your D-Link is like, but it might be worth giving the SuperHub a go first, and seeing whether it's adequate. It sure was nice to have GbE ports in the hub itself, as opposed to having to use a hub coming off the Draytek!!
 
FatalSaviour said:
Just checked, according to the device webpage, the WAN port is also 10/100, so it *should* handle this fine.
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Just because a WAN port is 10/100 doesn't mean it can do 10/100 speeds. For example my linksys wrt54gl has a 10/100 WAN port yet with tomato firmware it maxes out at around 36Mb/s WAN to LAN throughput. Just because a port is capable of a certain speed does not mean that the hardware can phsyically cope with that speed on WAN to LAN communication.
 
You need to find out the wan to lan throughput. If its at or above 100 then you will get full speed. However if its lower, like a lot of older routers then you will only get some of your bandwidth.

I had a Belkin router once that tapped out about 30meg. My current router, dlink dir-655 caps at about 250 so if i were to upgrade to 100 from 50 or even to 200 I should still be ok.
 
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