[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]You do realize that 54MB doesn't equal 54 megabytes. 54MB is 54 megabits which equals around 6.7Mb or megabytes throughput and since a lot of people have highspeed connections faster then 6.7mb now wireless N was needed. At the time when Wireless G mcame out it was plenty fast enough considering most highspeed data lines were throughputing on 1 to 3Mb's but by te time Wireless N came out with cable modems etc that were offering 7 to 10mb's throughput N was needed. Now you have super highsped internet ike fiber optics that are capable of upwords of 100 Mb's throughput. Even though 100mb is still exotic to the home user and pretty costly in the next few years 100Mb's throughput connection will be coming down in price and will be more within the afforable range like what we are starting to see now with 50Mb throughput connections. So is wireless AC needed at this point? Yes if you are running a super highspeed connection faster then 50Mb's and if you have AC compatible devices which is another big factor to consider But If you are running anything below 50Mb's connection then and have no wireless devices that are AC compatible then no.[/citation]
MB=Megabyte. Mb=Megabit.
EDIT: Just to clarify in case what I said before would only add to confusion, yes, Wireless G is 54Mb/s, not 54MB/s. My above two *sentences* merely match the acronyms with what they represent and were not meant to imply that you were wrong about saying that Wireless G is only about 6.7MB/s max. /EDIT
You are correct that Wireless G is insufficient for many cable internet connections and such, but do realize that you don't need the full bandwidth of those connections in most situations anyway. Web browsing, gaming, and more are generally fine with G's 54Mb/s max. Also, it doesn't take fiber to get 100Mb/s internet. We have copper Ethernet cables that can handle 10Gb/s both ways just fine and 1Gb/s cables are very common. Furthermore, most people, at least in the Americas, do not have very high speed internet connections like many do in countries such as Japan.
My point is that AC is not needed for the vast majority of people regardless of their internet connection. Chances are that anyone with such high speed internet connections would have far faster internet connections than most web servers have to individual web clients anyway. AC is not needed for the bandwidth boost that it has and for the niche that can actually make good use out of it, the usage improvement is mostly in connectivity improvement, not raw performance improvement, over its predecessors. The only reasons that I could see for using AC when you need more wireless bandwidth than N can provide strictly for internet bandwidth would be for very specific and non-average tasks such as running many high-speed downloads/uploads, some sort of fairly high-traffic home web server, or stuff like that and even then, you'd be better off with a wired connection at such points.