Linksys E2000 and 100/10 Internet Connection

hi,

So I'm a student, and they'll upgrade my internet connection to 100/10 in 10 days. Meanwhile, I'm thinking about getting a wireless router so that I don't have to plug in all the time.

My computer has an Intel AGN/5300 adaptor, and my question is if Linksys E2000 on 5GHz/40MHz can handle 100/10 Internet without becoming a noticeable bottleneck. There will only be my computer, most of the time to say the least, as a single client, so the question is if anyone has such experience. 10M uplink wouldn't be a problem, but how about the 100M downlink?

I don't care about range, as it'll be 5 ft away from my computer most of the time. According to smallnetbuilder.net, no wireless router can handle close to 100M; is it true?

 

Linksys E2000 is a rebranded WRT320N- probably with some firmware improvements judging by the improvements seen in WRT610N being rebranded to E3000.
If you take a look at the downlink speed tables of WRT320N for 5GHz 40MHz in location A (closest to the router so it's your scenario) WRT320N is in fact the second fasters when it comes to max throughput (85mbps) and one of the fastest in terms of average throughput- around 70mbps ( source)
Still if you want to have a reliable 100mbps you'd have to go for a cable 1gbps connection (100mbps would be maxed out and that could cause problems)

 

thanks,

I've gone through those charts, and based on them I thought E2000 would be ok. I don't need dual band or USB, so this is perhaps the best option. The only thing is WNDR3700 is #only# 379 skr ($73) dearer (Sweden is of course expensive in everything; 380 skr is one spaghetti :'( anyway, considering I'm planning to use only mac filtering (no encryption), I guess performance may be better.

I cannot really change/order the connection at will, but thanks. (and I doubt 1 G internet connection really changes anything, seeing the bandwidth at the other end.)

 

MAC filtering is not a security measure at all- spoofing it takes 5 seconds even if you're as far from being a hacker as I am so I recommend using WPA2+AES.
Contemporary routers are optimized to run AES so this security measure gives you more performance than WEP or TKIP (no one cares about optimizing those anymore)
Another thing- in order to run things at 802.11n speeds you have to have WPA2+AES running, otherwise you end up with 54mbps.
They came up with nice way of making people use it, didn't they?

 

Really? Thanks, I didn't know the WPA2+AES thing.

Of course MAC filtering isn't safe at all, but there is literally no motivation for anyone to #intrude# my network as everyone in the building (dormitory) has 100/10 Internet, and I guess getting into my network doesn't really jeopardize the safety of data on my computer (where there is no sensitive data at all

 

Well as I said- you'll have to have it enabled anyway and apart from that- someone living in your dorm may use your connection do something illegal on the net and it may end up being tracked back to you. Better safe than sorry.

 

Then it's actually a good thought: what if I did something illegal on the internet and tell the inspectors, if they'd come, that my network security had been tampered? DD

 

This could happen.

 

I set 123456 as the password, and unfortunately it just so happens the guy first thought of it

This guy needs a doctor. paranoid...

 

got it and tested

my old computer has only a 100M network adapter, so the throughput was cut at 93.6Mb, 93.7, and 94 on three attempts. wired lan to lan got the same 93.8, so it was indeed my old computer.

i used iperf.