Does the router matters for wired connections?

[josysclei]

First: Where I live the options are limited and expensive in terms of models I can choose
Second: I don't give a crap about wifi
Third: My connection is 100mbps fiber

As of now, I use a cheap TPLINK WR841 10/100 router that actually bottleneck my internet speed. Having wired connections in mind and maybe ping as an issue (online gaming), will any Gigabit router perform the same? Is it worth it to buy a more expensive model?

 

[kanewolf]

If you have 100Mbit WAN then you need a gigabit router to achieve that rate. A 100Mbit router will limit to 95Mbit (giver or take).

 

[josysclei]

Stupid phone, did not mean to mark it as solved. My question is, will a more expensive router handle packet forwarding better, lower ping, etc?

 

[kanewolf]

More expensive routers have more RAM and more CPU. That can speed things up when you have a lot of forwards etc. I can't say I have ever seen a ping time comparison of routers (but I am NOT a gamer so I really don't care) ....

 

[jsmithepa]

I have yet have somebody explain to me how whatever you do to your LAN will have any effect on ping time, which is caused by the ISP network which the user doesn't have control?

 

[bill001g]

The router is not delaying your packets very much when you consider the big picture.

People who over analyze things will worry that a extra gigabit switch in the path adds .012ms for 1500 byte packets. A router doing nat must do more since it must modify the packets and re calculate things like the ip header checksums. So lets say it takes a whole 1ms to do this. When you are talking many 100s of ms to get to remote locations how much does adding 1ms really matter. Very technically it does delay it but you have to avoid becoming one of those guys who obsessive over numbers that make little difference in the real world.