Ah, yes...
When the 9100EM was first introduced by Westell, it was specced by Westell to have Gigabit ports along with possible Wireless N support. The original design was Gigabit + Wireless G radio. Verizon apparently ordered the version of the 9100EM (Both Rev. A and Rev. B) with 100Mbps switches and Wireless G. So by no means will you get a Westell if you get anything higher than 50Mbps/20Mbps. The hardware in the Westell is fast enough to handle the speed, minus the limitation of the 100Mbps Ethernet switch.
The same goes with Verizon's ActionTec MI424WR routers. Rev. A-D were never specced by ActionTec to have Gigabit or Wireless N. What you saw on ActionTec's website was what you obtained from Verizon: A router capable of more than 100Mbps but limited by the 100Mbps switches located on the mainboard. When ActionTec introduced the Gen2 ActionTecs with additional RAM, Flash and CPU power, they specced the unit as initally having Gigabit support, back when Wireless N was still in the draft stages. This was around the time of the Rev. D just being distributed, where ActionTec was producing the first line of Rev. E routers (which is a Gen2 router). Come time for Verizon to get a limited supply of Rev. E routers, sure you got the additional RAM, Flash and CPU power, but you still had Wireless G with 100Mbps switches. The Rev. F when it was introduced was specced by ActionTec to have both Gigabit ports and Draft N. Verizon delivered on the Draft N. promise but once again, delivered only 100Mbps switches. The Rev. F did include additional RAM over the Rev. E ActionTec. Now, here comes the Rev. G router everyone wants. 2x2 Wireless B/GN, Gigabit ActionTec MI424WR. This is the original Gen2 spec of what ActionTec designed, and it seems Verizon only bought a limited quantity of them since they don't wish to sell them, but instead only hand them off to those very pesky customers (hehe) or for those getting 150M service. Now it's worth pointing out that while ActionTec's site hasn't changed since, they do have a Rev. H ActionTec as well as a Rev. I ActionTec in the works that has Gigabit and N support, perhaps Dual Band N since ActionTec is swapping out the radio for the Wireless in them. Let's hope Verizon doesn't order the reduced version of those routers and perhaps starts handing them out to people as they wish.
Figured I'd run that brief history lesson down on everyone. It's too bad the Gigabit hardware isn't given out as it is. I guess the workarounds of hanging APs off of the Verizon supplied routers in addition to Gigabit switches has sort of kept the complaints down.
