Gigabit wireless router on fast Ethernet modem

[TheWolfHowling]

Dear Tom's Hardware

I just upgraded to a new wireless router that also has gigabit Ethernet wired networking, however my modem only has fast Ethernet networking.

Is it really worth upgrading to a gigabit modem? Considering that my DSL connection would probably rarely, if ever, get over 10MB per second.

Thanks for you help

 

[ronintexas]

Unless your internet connection is over 100MB - no need to update.

 

[popatim]

What Ronin is trying to say is that your internet is advertised in Mega-Bits per second.
So a typical speed is 15mb/s down and 3mb/s up. The Fast ethernet port is 100mb/s in both directions.

So you can see that you would need some super ISP to run faster than fast ethernet can handle.

 

[digitaldoc]

With a DSL connection, and those internet speeds, there is no point in upgrading the modem.

 

[ronintexas]

Austin, TX has great internet speeds.....300Mbps down, 20Mbps up from Time Warner Cable - AT&T has moved to those speeds in areas.....Google Fiber and Grande Communications both have 1Gbps - and the areas are increasing. With those speeds, upgrading the router makes since, as the router would bottleneck the internet speeds to 100Mbps.