Wifi help?

JAKEBAB · February 23, 2015

So im on another forum atm and afaik if i have 100/40 mbps internet plan and a wireless N router i could achieve that full bandwidth over wifi could i not? because this is the guys response when i said wifi N can do up to 600Mb/s:

"thats wan to lan throughput

you need the ac to then go wan to wlan throughput to match"

Erm wtf am i wrong or is he?

Edit: also the reason he says AC is because hes trying to say u need a wireless AC router to use all of the 100mbps bandwidth over wifi.

Edit: 2 This is not for me, i won't be seeing a 100mbps connection for about another year lol i was just trying to see if i was wrong in telling someone with a 100mbps that a wireless N router would be ok for his connection over WIFI and he doesn't have to spend all that money on an AC router unless he wants faster internal network speeds.

QueenDemetria · February 23, 2015

Erm wtf am i wrong or is he?

If you have a high end router and wifi card, you can achieve 100/40 over wifi(even higher too). Not sure what they are talking about.

d3sl91 · February 23, 2015

This is using my macbook pro with an Asus RT-N66U Wireless N router.

My desktop gets roughly the same speeds, but a 4-5ms ping instead. '

I am paying for 105/10.

You will be fine, as long as your router does actually support those N speeds.

FMQ203 · February 23, 2015

It depends, wireless N standard was released with 150mbps speeds and there is a lot of routers with that speed, you should get one with at least 300mbps rx rate (speed of the router), but if money isn't a problem, I would go for a medium to high end router, I mean, spend like 60 bucks and get a propper dual band router