Dual LAN & wifi A/B/G/N

[dlf]

I will sometime in the next few months (I hope) to get a computer - that will have this motherboard:

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813128549

The interesting thing of the board is that it has dual LAN ports along with: WiFi IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n support. We at the moment have a ISP router - AT&T that only supports B/G, while my next computer will support N. I REALLY doubt it but could I get my own small private (?) router that does support Wireless N that I myself could use for the few devices that could really (I'd think) use the speed?

[Arachno 1D]

Sure just get an N rated wireless device and plug it into your present router and if it supports b/g/n then just disable the older device in the config menu.

[Roger H. Veteran]

You can just buy whatever router you want and plug it into the LAN ports on the 2Wire Router you have. The wire would go from LAN to the LAN, in that case you wouldn't use the WAN port on the new router. I'd also turn off Wireless on the 2Wire router and just let the new router handle it all.

[+BudMan MVC]

As stated already you can always add a wireless router as just accesspoint if you don't want to fully replace the unit in place now.

Question is your internet speed faster than G.. If not - unless your worried about transfers between machines on your network, then a N routers is not going to get you much. G can do about 21 to 23Mbps realworld wireless to wired, ie your client to internet. So unless your internet is way faster than that - your not going to see any improved internet speeds.

But sure if your talking about transfer between devices on your local network that also support N, then sure it could be quite a speed bump over G.

[dlf]

What I was wondering is: If I could get my own personal router (that supports B/G/N) and connect it through ethernet cable to my new computer and potentially get faster speeds than 350 KB/S (which I doubt). @ that speed to download 250 GB (probably small estimate of what I want off steam) it'd take about two weeks. Although I really doubt this could ever work

By the time this country (or state) gets decentspeeds the rest of the world will have gigabyte or terabyte speeds and we'll be stuck in the the stone age with internet . . . . . . . . . .

[Roger H. Veteran]

Wait i think I get what you mean now. Use a router to bridge your wireless network?

Your new mobo will have 5Ghz built in so get a 5Ghz capable router and you'll be good to go!

[Arachno 1D]

What I was wondering is: If I could get my own personal router (that supports B/G/N) and connect it through ethernet cable to my new computer

What..???........what are you on about......if you connecting it via cat5 to the PC then you dont need to change the router it wont make any difference at all

[+BudMan MVC]

Yeah you lost me...

So yes you could connect the router to your computer via lan -- then what?

[dlf]

Wait i think I get what you mean now. Use a router to bridge your wireless network?

Your new mobo will have 5Ghz built in so get a 5Ghz capable router and you'll be good to go!

what I actually ment was get a small personal private router for my new computer, probably a laptop and my PS3 that supported wireless N. Connect the (new) router to the PC by cable (cat5?) and to the PS3/laptop by wifi (when needed) and I'd hope get faster speeds than 350 KB/S (or 3 Mbps) . . . . Why? When I do get the computer I will want to download a hell of a lot from steam (Arkham games, bioshock, portal 1/2, etc) . . . by my estimation the rough amount I'd like to download (eventually) would be about 250 GB, on this connection that'd take about a week and a half (10+ days I'd presume) while on a slightly faster Meg connection it could take (again I'd presume) 2 - 3 days.

I doubt this would be feasible at all but if I could even for a while get faster speeds that'd be lovely. Interesting thing is despite this computer getting 350 KB/S (from wi-fi and I'd presume Ethernet as well) my 11" Acer laptop (which supports (I think) up to gigabit speeds) can occasionally and randomly get faster speeds for a few seconds. When I do torrent (not asking how mods) I can more often get meg speeds - and recently started getting upwards of a meg upload speed.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Ok well the new router will be connected to the AT&T "router" by cable as well right? Connecting via WIRE or Wireless wont make much difference if your internet in general is slow.

I guess we are trying to figure out how the new router will connect to the internet and if your connection vs WIFI is the cause of your speed limit. If you are only paying for 1.5Mbps speeds then you wont see faster than 350KB/s ever. If you are paying for 6Mbps or 24Mbps since that's the fastest from AT&T then you should be seeing more speeds.

In the PM I asked you to do a speedtest and post how you are connected now and the monthly plan you pay for. Hard to know if anything will help if we don't know what you currently have.

[remixedcat]

Why can't you just get the wireless router and run it in AP mode like BM said?? That would be the simplest thing.

[+BudMan MVC]

Im with Shotta on this -- what is your ISP speeds, what are you paying for? What are you getting with a wire -- speedtest should give us a good idea of your plan, if your connected to the router with a wire.

If you only have a 24Mbps internet connection - N is going going to get you faster than that no matter how you connect it. And to be honest, G is is pretty close to that 24 number anyway. Good G is around 21 to 23Mbps Real World speeds. Moving to N would not be cost effective if this is the case - unless your talking about speeds between devices on your local network - then sure you could see increased speeds between these devices.

Lets say your internet is 50Mbps - lets just say!! Then ok getting a N router would make sense, but you sure and the hell would not have to connect it to this new computer your getting. You would just hang it off your current router as an accesspoint.

[dlf]

The state (Texas, US) let alone the city will probably get 50 Mbps in half a century @ the rate this country goes. As far as speeds, regardless of WHEN or how (wire or wireless) I get ~350 KB/s (2.88 Mbps) - downloading or speedtest on this computer and laptop despite us supposedly paying AT&T for 6 Mbps.

If my connection was 2 Megs I'd love that it'd be atlest 6 times faster than what we currently get and some downloads wouldn't take half a bloody day. I don't think a second router would do anything - and at that we'd have to run a few 55 - 60 (or so) feet of ethernet cables from one end of the house to the other. c'est la vie

[Phemo]

If you're on a 6 meg connection as it is then you should be getting full speed even via wireless G. A wireless N AP or a second router isn't going to magically increase the connection speed on the cable coming into your house. I'd focus more effort on trying to work out why you're only seeing 3Mbit speeds as opposed to the 6Mbit you're paying for rather than worrying about hardware that'll do nothing for you.

[Roger H. Veteran]

DSL depends on how far from the "hub" you are. If you are paying for 6Mbps then that's DSL Elite i think which requires you to be within 1500ft (i think) from the hub? If you are 1200ft you wont get 6Mbps either, you'll be syncing at a max of say 4 or whatever. The futher out you are the less you can sync at.

So unless you switch to a better connection, no router will give you better speeds :D

[offroadaaron]

You're internet is the bottleneck not your router by the sounds of things.