Bandwidth from the ISP vs from the router

Keithngan162

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When I was looking around for a router, I see that routers have these insanely high bandwidth figures, do these get bottle necked by my ISP plan?

like for example my internet plan is 50Mb/s and I have a 300Mb/s router, Will I benefit from a router that has a total bandwidth of lets say 600Mb/s?




Extra question,
If I use a dual band router, and lets say 3 devices are watching HD videos on the 2.4ghz band. Will that cause lag (particularly lag spikes in-game)for devices on the 5ghz
band?
 
1. The 300Mb/s bandwidth figures are for transfers within your home network, not from the ISP which will always be 50MB/s
2. 3 devices across 2.4/5ghz is more than doable, in fact I stream have streamed 4 full HD movies form my Plex server to 2 device on each frequency, this requires the source at a constant stream and the router cpu to handle the data handling.
3. How does this effect gaming, depends, my son is a hardcore online gamer and even with the above, has never complained.
 

Keithngan162

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So if a router has a higher total bandwidth, does it mean that it can handle a lot more workload before device connected to it start to experience lag?
 

kanewolf

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Not necessarily. The usage of the radio spectrum is dependent on both ends. So a slow client (wireless G for example) can slow down everybody.
 

Keithngan162

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Is there a "counter" to this situation? I dont want to block a device from connecting to the internet if its not mine