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Hey All.
Im trying to set up a nice wireless/wired internet at my house.. My internet speeds are: 80 Mbps download, 8 Mbps upload. Im trying to find a nice router for my home. but I really dont know what I need. I was looking at d-link routers since ive always had them and they never let me down.. Id like to buy a good one but i dont know if some are too good for my internet and i wont even benefit from it...

the higher end routers are:

1300mbps 5 ghz / 450 mbps 2.4.ghz
867 mbps 5 ghz / 300 mbps 2.4 ghz
etc etc.....

i really dont know what this means?? my internet is only 80 mbps so is this wayyyyyyy to good for me???

the information is from here:
http://www.dlink.com/ca/en/home-solutions/connect/routers

any help would be fantastic! thanks!!
 
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That router is kinda expensive and is considered middle of the pack by most people. The high end routers are generally ASUS but they have high price to go with it.

If you are willing to spend $100 on the dlink then I would instead look at the tplink archer c7 it is a 802.11ac router and most people say it works very well. In general a 600 router will perform as good as the 900 ones since it is very hard to get a clean 450m signal because it requires 3 overlapping signals which is asking a lot if you have interference from neighbors.
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1300 Mbps would be the wired LAN speed, 450 would be the wifi speed. Again, that's your LAN speed, it has nothing to do with your internet speed. Your LAN (or local area network) is basically all your home computers, tablets, etc. that are connected to each other. So if you have a desktop PC with a media library on it, that would be streamed to other devices over the LAN. If the internet went out, it would have no effect on your LAN, you just wouldn't be able to see anything on other networks or the internet. You could still stream movies, music, etc. perfectly fine from your desktop or server PC to your tablets, laptops, etc.

If you don't care about any of that stuff, then yeah, it's overkill. The 5 Ghz is the wireless frequency. Many devices use the 2.4 Ghz frequency which causes interference with other devices (cordless phones, etc) so if you have dual band 5 Ghz and 2.4 Ghz, you won't have as much wireless interference.

Buying a 100 Mbps router vs buying a 1000 Mbps (1 Gbps) will make zero difference in your internet speed (as long as your internet speed is ~80 Mbps or lower). If you got google fiber though, you might see a difference in internet speed. Your LAN would be the main difference there, as well as the wifi interference.
 
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As you suspect as long as your router can run faster than your internet you will not surf the internet faster just because you buy a faster router.

These high routers are mostly used by people who want to stream video within their house or run huge nas arrays. They also help to some extent when you have lots of users. If for example you would lose 50% of the bandwidth because of inefficient sharing the bigger number you start with the more you have after you account for the loss.

There are 3 basic speeds used by 802.11n routers you will see there are more but these are the common ones. 150,300,450 150 is the raw rate using a 40mhz channel, the 300 send 2 overlapping signals and 450 send 3 overlapping signals. Now because you can have 2 radios in your router (2.4g and 5g) and each can run at those rates you get them stating stuff 300+300 or 300+450 etc.

Now you get into the 433 and 867 which are similar variations but assume a 80mhz channel running 802.11ac with 433 the base rate and 867 the 2x2 rate. There are a couple of other ones since 802.11ac is so new.

If you read the wikipedia pages on 802.11n and 802.11ac you will see the tables of speed and how they are derived.

The big issue is that even if you have 802.11ac router and nic cards it is impossible to get anywhere near the rated speeds. This is also true for 802.11n when you are running speeds link 450m since they are dependent on overlapping signals to work.

In real world if you can get much over 200m even on the fastest wireless you are doing very good.
 
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wow. that is great information.. i had to read it a couple times just to understand it!.. The only devices I have wired are my Xbox and appletv. My ipad, iphone, computer and my laptop are all wifi. The laptop is sometimes wired depending on the location of it in my house... Everything I own is N. I could always update my laptop and pc to AC later.. but I think all apple stuff has N wireless cards in them...

i was looking at this router now... but its just hard to get in my area...

http://www.dlink.com/ca/en/home-solutions/connect/routers/dir-855l-wireless-n900-dual-band-gigabit-router
 
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That router is kinda expensive and is considered middle of the pack by most people. The high end routers are generally ASUS but they have high price to go with it.

If you are willing to spend $100 on the dlink then I would instead look at the tplink archer c7 it is a 802.11ac router and most people say it works very well. In general a 600 router will perform as good as the 900 ones since it is very hard to get a clean 450m signal because it requires 3 overlapping signals which is asking a lot if you have interference from neighbors.
 
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thanks!! ill have a look at the tplink archer c7.. I dont have to use Dlink.. Its the only router ive used.. Im totally open for suggestions!! =) I might even check out some of the ASUS routers.. I live in the country so I dont have any neighbours.. I put security on my router but I dont even need it password protected because everyone is miles and miles away...
 
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