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dougt55
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Registered: ‎06-17-2012
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Am I able to take advantage of higher internet speeds?

I am on the 25/15 plan (triple play) and about renewing my contract for two years.  Without downgrading speed, the closest option are 50/25 or 75/35.  I am not sure I can take advantage of the higher speeds as most of our devices / PCs connect wirelessly.  For wireless connections our speeds average 22/19 while wired average 30/22 ... per speedtest.net.

 

Our setup is ... verizon m1424wr rev d (wireless off) with a linkysy bridged router (wrt54g) for wireless.  Looking for advice on whether we will benefit from the higher speeds or whether I need to upgrade my linksys to wireless N or there is no hope. 

 

FYI.  I am not a technical person but can figure things out if pointed in the right direction.

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pappy97
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Registered: ‎06-10-2012
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Re: Am I able to take advantage of higher internet speeds?

Perhaps this won't mean much to you, but you really need to test your LAN throughput to determine if wirelessly you can take advantage of higher speeds.

 

What I mean is, just seeing what speeds you get now between wired vs. wireless doesn't really help.  What I am saying is, with one computer connected wired, and one connected wirelessly, you need to test the LAN speed between them, i.e., the speed at which data travels between those computers.

 

For example, I have a computer wired and one wireless.  I copied a file from one to the other over my home network.  I noticed I was getting about 13 megaBYTES (NOT megabits) a second.  What did that tell me?  It told me that that I'd quite alright getting the new 75 megabits down because  75 megabits down = 9 something megaBYTES a second.  My wireless computer will get the full download speed no problem.

 

Now 150 megabits might be a different story.

 

I assume your computers are windows computers.  If so, there is free software you can download to test your LAN speed.  Once you know the speed between your devices on the LAN, you'll know what you can handle.

 

BUT having said all that, the router you are using now is a g router, 54 megabits per second is theoretical max for 802.11g, but we all know we don't get those theoretical max outputs.  I would guess you wouldn't benefit from those higher speeds.  Since 15/5 is too low as you know (and too expensive now in my humble opinion), you probably should get the next cheapest one, 50/25.

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Smith6612
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Registered: ‎12-15-2010
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Re: Am I able to take advantage of higher internet speeds?

The question "Is it worth it" would in my opinion, be based on how much you use your connection and if you feel the additional speed is worth it. If you're satisfied with what you've got now, you can just go ahead and renew your plan and keep the current speed. If you guys are running your connection full bore in either direction for any extended amount of time an upgrade might help free the connection up sooner.

 

Anything higher than 20Mbps will require a Wireless N router and adapters or some means of hardwiring the connection. If you're lucky Wireless G will do 28Mbps in a single direction. Don't expect it to get much faster than that though.

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dougt55
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Registered: ‎06-17-2012
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Re: Am I able to take advantage of higher internet speeds?

Thank you for the replies.  I will upgrade my router to wireless N.

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Smith6612
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Registered: ‎12-15-2010
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Re: Am I able to take advantage of higher internet speeds?

You're welcome!

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