Nighthawk router

Speed is not important for gaming. It's often miss-sold by manufacturers and ISP's. Your internet is more than fast enough. What really is important is ping. You should be aiming to get your ping to your favourite games down to below 100ms. Even so you will never make pro gamer with that ping but it will at least be very playable. When you consider your monitor takes 16ms to update then all of a sudden 16ms seems not a lot. Certainly the hope would be that you are below 50ms. When I first bought a 1Mbps internet connection I was one of the elite!! And my ping to all the european servers was 8ms!! Now though despite my connection being 40 times faster my ping has collapsed to 40ms. Why? People. So many more people. But anyway, getting back to the point, your speed is not important, your ping is.

The XR500 will not help your ping. However, it does give you management tools to limit for example which servers you connect to. So I would base the decision on the servers you are connecting to. If you need to buy a cheap router first to find out - then do it. Ses if you have a problem before you try to fix it.