some unanswered question

[DimasAbiyogaM28]

hi, this question is a bit weird but my friend just asked me this and im not too sure of responding it, and im new in networking

 

so he said "Lets say theres a router that can give you 100Mbps that plugs in straight to my nbn box and i have another router that is plug in to this first router, but the second router can give you lets say 500Mbps and my pc/phone connects to the second router, will i get 100Mbps or 500Mbps,  - might get 100Mbps because its the first router's speed that get passed down to router no.2 then to my phone/PC. - OR i could be getting 500Mbps since lets say the second router changes the speed of 100Mbps into 500Mbps."

[minibois]

Your speed is only as high as the weakest link.

So if he, with this setup, will access the internet: it will go at 100Mbps max, as router1 is effectively bottlenecking his network.

If he was only connecting to a device connected to router2 it might go faster, because if you're not going to the slower router1, you could get higher speeds.

[ProjectBox153]

The speeds of the second router will be limited by the first router. Speeds of networking always go at the speed of the slowest link.

[paddy-stone]

Depends, if the user was connecting to router 2, that also has connected a NAS for instance, the data would be routed through number 2 which both are connected to, so should be 500Mbps. If however the NAS was connected to router 1, then you are limited by the connection to the first router. And if you had say internet connected to router 1, then all internet traffic could only go at 100Mbps no matter where it's going to if it's an ethernet connection... if however router 1 had 100Mbps ethernet, but 600Mbps wifi, and the user was connected via wifi to router 1, then should be able to get speeds upto 600Mbps if the internet connection could go that fast obviously.