Are there any routers that can transfer at Gigabit speeds wirelessly?

[yazyazoo]

I was wondering how useful having a Gigabit router is. I am talking about N routers are wonder if even the N900 routers can really get 900Mbs transfers?

I was having a debate that Gigabit is only useful for the LAN transfers and that Wireless N900 wouldn't even be able to saturate a Gigabit or even regular 100Mb router.

Am I correct?

Can any wireless routers truly transfer faster than Gigabit LAN? Maybe the new AC format?

 

[Fraoch]

Yes, no router can transfer 1000 Mbps wirelessly.

However some can transfer over 100 Mbps wirelessly, so a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet link can be saturated. This is why Gigabit ports are needed on high-performance wireless routers/APs.

Take a look at the wireless charts:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar/113-5-ghz-dn-c

Note:

- these are all 802.11ac routers
- this is all on the 5 GHz band

If you're using 802.11n or 2.4 GHz only, 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet connections should be fine except for wired LAN file sharing.

So it's rather a special case, but it is possible.