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802.11n Routers without 1000M physical ports limited?

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TivoOwner

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I'm looking to get a N router but I see many of them with only 10/100M LAN ports so wouldn't this make achieving the 300M theoretical wireless bandwidth impossible to achieve? Shouldn't we only get routers with 10/100/1000M LAN/WAN ports?

What is wrong with my thinking here? Thanks.
 
"300 Mb/s" amounts to misleading marketing just like "54 Mb/s" did in the g days.

In practice, you'd be lucky to hit 100 Mb/s actual throughput with "300 Mb/s" wireless, so 100 Mb/s wired ports are not a significant practical limitation for the most part.

However, under some relatively rare conditions, you can slightly exceed 100 Mb/s, so having gigabit ports is better in theory, and in the few rare cases, also better in practice. Moreover, using the gigabit wired ports without going through wireless is even better.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
Originally posted by: TivoOwnerShouldn't we only get routers with 10/100/1000M LAN/WAN ports?
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Your are a Lucky man. 😉. For $25 you can get this and have Giga Network too.

AFAIK the above Switch performs better then any of the Giga switches that are part of a Wireless router.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833156250
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It's asking a router a lot to process/switch packets at gigabit speeds. It's still many 10s of thousands of dollars for one to do so.
 
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