- Feb 24, 2018
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Hello there,
I am planning on upgrading my internernet subscription to a faster 1000 Mbps connection (Gigabit, is that what it's called??).
Now, I want to have two desktop PCs connected via LAN cable for quickest possible connection, but also want to connect phones, tablets and laptops via WiFi.
The download speed over WiFi is not important to me, only what goes into the desktop PCs should ideally be as fast as possible. I read somewhere that the PC motherboard must have Gigabit Ethernet and both do according to the specs, luckily.
The ISP only provides an Ethernet cable, which comes from somewhere outside the house and can be plugged into a computer directly or plugged into a WiFi router for WLAN access.
I have an older TP Link Router, TP-LINK TL-WR841N, with no 5 GHZ WLAN or any other fancy stuff like that.
If I were to plug the cable from the ISP into the Network port of the LAN Router and then connect the PCs to the LAN 1 and 2 ports respectively, will I notice a drop in performance, as compared to having the wire from the ISP directly connected into one of the PCs? If no other device is connected to WiFi and I am only using one computer, will I get the full Gigabit speed?
Or, is my old router a bottleneck? Will simply routing the cable from the ISP through the WLAN router limit the bandwidth, even though hypothetically WiFi is not used?
Excuse my English by the way, it's not my first language.
I very much appreciate all of your support guys! Thanks!
I am planning on upgrading my internernet subscription to a faster 1000 Mbps connection (Gigabit, is that what it's called??).
Now, I want to have two desktop PCs connected via LAN cable for quickest possible connection, but also want to connect phones, tablets and laptops via WiFi.
The download speed over WiFi is not important to me, only what goes into the desktop PCs should ideally be as fast as possible. I read somewhere that the PC motherboard must have Gigabit Ethernet and both do according to the specs, luckily.
The ISP only provides an Ethernet cable, which comes from somewhere outside the house and can be plugged into a computer directly or plugged into a WiFi router for WLAN access.
I have an older TP Link Router, TP-LINK TL-WR841N, with no 5 GHZ WLAN or any other fancy stuff like that.
If I were to plug the cable from the ISP into the Network port of the LAN Router and then connect the PCs to the LAN 1 and 2 ports respectively, will I notice a drop in performance, as compared to having the wire from the ISP directly connected into one of the PCs? If no other device is connected to WiFi and I am only using one computer, will I get the full Gigabit speed?
Or, is my old router a bottleneck? Will simply routing the cable from the ISP through the WLAN router limit the bandwidth, even though hypothetically WiFi is not used?
Excuse my English by the way, it's not my first language.
I very much appreciate all of your support guys! Thanks!
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