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N600-WNDR3400 Router Speed Issue
Let me start by saying that you may have to explain things to me like in a 5 year old. I have the technical skills of an elderly person who thinks a VCR is moderm technology. Ok, so now that tha...
No the router has hadware limit of 100mb no way around it just you car engine only go so fast the hardware in router have limits too.
PerkySourPuss wrote:
So the advertised 300mbps is BS?
Not really. It hasn't been explained that well to you so far. Experts sometimes find it hard to step back and get into five-year old mode. Let's have another go.
There are two ways to connect devices to your router, wifi and LAN.
LAN is the wired sockets at the back. A wired connection is usually more reliable than wifi for stuff that you do not move around.
But LAN comes with different speeds. Old school LAN ran at 100 Mbps. If you have a laptop that is a few years old, there is a good chance that it has 100 Mbps LAN. (Fortunately, your laptop doesn't seem to have that issue.) So it will never connect to a wired network at faster than 100 Mbps. Even if your Internet service runs at 100000 Mbps. (That'll be the day.)
On the other hand, your laptop may make a faster connection over wifi. But then only if it has the chips needed to support the faster "5 GHz" wifi bands.
In any case, claims of "Up to 300 Mbps at 5GHz and 145 Mbps at 2.4GHz" – that's what the specs say – are theoretical. Notice that is says up to.
References to your limit of 100 Mbps relate to the LAN bits on the back of the modem. The specification says that this is 100BASE-Tx. That's another way of saying 100 Mbps.
All these bits of 100 Mbps kit were designed and sold long before Internet suppliers got anywhere near that speed with their services. Most of us were lucky to get 8 Mbps.
The manual for your modem is dated March 2010. Technology has moved on a lot since then. Most modern modems will have 100BASE-Tx for their LAN ports.
Time to treat yourself. When you make a choice, you could consult the list of recommended modems from your ISP, if it has one. But be warned that it is probably out of date. If the ISP has a user forum like this you could see what people there suggest. If nothing else, they may have warnings about stuff that has caused problems, or any special configuration needs.
To add one more point about the LAN speeds.
If you check the specifications for your modem, you will see that it has Local: 10/100/1000 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet port.
In other words, this is the "new generation" hardware I mentioned.