brucew268
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I'm running 38Mbps fibre modem to a no-name router in router mode only which passes off the a Netgear GS108 switch which handles a Wireless AP and a few Ethernet streaming devices.
So since my Ethernet traffic between devices is handled by the switch, and Ethernet to WAN is limited by the fibre modem (which is 100Mbps, not Gigabit)... do I really gain anything by getting a router with 350Mbps WAN>LAN throughput and 30k connections instead of 94Mbps WAN>LAN and 11k connections?
I've read the article on using separate components for modem, router, switch and AP. But being non-technical in networking I don't know what purpose the router performs except to handoff between switch traffic and the modem, which is limited to less than 100Mbps. I am only using one port of the router, since I hand everything off to the switch.
So since my Ethernet traffic between devices is handled by the switch, and Ethernet to WAN is limited by the fibre modem (which is 100Mbps, not Gigabit)... do I really gain anything by getting a router with 350Mbps WAN>LAN throughput and 30k connections instead of 94Mbps WAN>LAN and 11k connections?
I've read the article on using separate components for modem, router, switch and AP. But being non-technical in networking I don't know what purpose the router performs except to handoff between switch traffic and the modem, which is limited to less than 100Mbps. I am only using one port of the router, since I hand everything off to the switch.