is gigbit on a 300mbps wireless router worth it?

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looking to replace a temporay router now and dont want to spend the earth

the only high bandwidth stuff will be streaming HD content from router to laptop

N is rated at 300mbps at 5GHz but i am well aware of this not being able to reach this. Is then gigabit worth it or not?

where is the bottleneck?
 
I think you're confusing wired and wireless. Gigabit would relate to a wired connection with the router either directly or via a switch and possibly a network wall socket. This would also depend on cabling used and Gigabit capable NIC's in the wired devices.
 
sorry, reading it back i didnt make it clear

i will have a wired connection from server to router that is gigabit capable
im wondering if 10/100 at the router end is enough (wired) to saturate 300mbps N (wireless)..

or.. where is the bottle neck in 10/100 wired->300 N wireless? Is wireless N faster than 10/100 in real world use?
 
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I think you need Gigabit throughout to get Gigabit so the 10/100 at the router would be the weakest link if you were connecting via cable to one of those ports. Wireless N I would say should out perform the fast ethernet connection, (quality of wireless signal permitting). The quicker the router can tx/rx with a device the sooner it can communicate up/down the Gigabit connection with the server but I think it would only achieve the rate in which it could deliver these packets to the PC.
 
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al4x said:
sorry, reading it back i didnt make it clear

i will have a wired connection from server to router that is gigabit capable
im wondering if 10/100 at the router end is enough (wired) to saturate 300mbps N (wireless)..

or.. where is the bottle neck in 10/100 wired->300 N wireless? Is wireless N faster than 10/100 in real world use?
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Quite often the real world speed of Wireless N will be slower than a 100Mb wired connection depending on number of clients, other access points nearby etc. I'd still prefer to have a gigabit port on it though for when Wireless N is able to go faster.
 
Sounds good, im finding it very difficult to find a true dual band 2.4 and 5ghz gigabit router for a decent price.
 
poisonrain said:
TP-Link and Billion do some pretty fair wireless kit in the lower price brackets. This might meet your needs:
http://www.bestrouter.co.uk/routers/tp-link-tl-wr2543nd-review

Good luck
PR
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had a look at that, its one of those which can only use 2.4 or 5ghz, there are a lot like that and its pointless for me as there is more than one g device in the house.

I might have to compromise and just go for single band at one time

so many decent cable routers but not adsl
 
al4x said:
so many decent cable routers but not adsl
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If there are cable routers available that meet your wireless needs you could get one and just use it as a wireless access point (and switch if you want). Leave your existing router to do everything else. Not as neat as a single device, but it'll work okay.
 
good point, in that case i wouldnt need a wireless signal at all.
I think that would be the best solution, all true dual band routers are well over £60

in that case i would just bee looking for a reliable router that lends itself well to port forwarding for access to the server off site, QoS etc
 
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