What router is good for me?

[sulfuric1]

I need to know what Router to get that will match my speeds. I will be getting ~200Mbps Down and 15Mbps up. I see routers that say “300mbps” and ones that say “1900mbps” what is the difference here? If i only have 200mbps should i be fine with a router that says “up to 300mbps” I will be gaming a lot

 

[RememberThe5th]

You need upload atleast 200kb/s for stable EU 40-50ms (ping).
Upload is more important than download in case of ping.
If you have network speed of 20MB/s and upload 5MB/s, if you download at full 20 the upload will suffer, vice versa. If you download at 13 you will have headroom for ping 5up+2down.
This is how I experienced the internet.
I hope I gave you the "friendly" answer.

As far for routers, 300mb/s (Megabits per second) is equal almost to 30MB/s (Megabytes per second)
10mbs (megabit) is equal to 1.024 MB/s or 1024KB/s.
Take the 300 one if you wont get higher speed internet in near future.

If im wrong, someone please correct me.
Thank you.

Just to add, you will have 20MB/s(roughly 200mb/s) download and 1.5MB/s(roughly 15mb/s) upload which is very good for home user.

 

[DanKem06]

I'm sorry that people chose not to answer your questions and also give terrible advice, only joking. Mostly correct info from Robert. just none of that Mbps vs MBps really matters. His ping is mostly decided by the ISP and both download and upload are relatively important. This can get complicated and I don't think it's worth talking about before he has tested the network and hardware. Also your info is really geared towards data transfers like downloading movies. For gaming your connection speeds are okay but not great as the upload speed is important as well.

Okay so best I can do to help with very little into about devices connecting to the nodes also quantity of clients on the network.

What models does your ISP offer? Whatever you decide just make sure it has gigabit ethernet ports, enough for hardwared devices and a few spares 1 or 2 and 802.1n 2.4 and 5 ghz dual band wifi. After testing if your happy then game away if you get slow speeds or a 50 ms ping and think it should be lower PM me and I'll help you out for that best answer lol.

 

[DanKem06]

Sorry for my spelling, I'm on my cell phone.

The differences in speed are actually different protocols. 802.11 n can go up to 450 Mbps and use both bands 2.4 and 5 but 802.11 ac will do 1300+ Mbps but requires 5G. The basic difference from the number before "Mbps" is like a speed limit. The higher the number the faster the wifi, until you find out your highway onto the world is 200 mbps, but you can still drive 1300 inside your house. Hopefully that is a simple analogy and doesnt make you feel stupid. Just always been the way I break it down for users at my office and it seems to help with the concept.

 

[bill001g]

They key fact to remember is the marketing guys write those numbers on the box not the wireless engineers that make the hardware. Those numbers are as close to telling outright lies as you can get. They do things like add together the speeds of different radio bands which neglects the important fact that a end device can not use more than one radio band at a time.

You are going to have massive issues getting any wifi that can do 200mbps. It is not likely the router that is the problem it is your end devices in most cases. Thing like cell phones have very low power radios and only 2 antenna so this limit the capacity.

This chart should give you a good indicator but be aware they are testing these routers using a end device that has feature like 4 antenna and supports things like mu-mimo. These are very very rare in end devices so do not expect to see those numbers. This site explains a lot of this in detail if you dig around.

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/119-5-ghz-profile-dn/35