A 2 part statement/question: I see these fancy new routers offering wifi 6,6e and 7 that support 10GB of speed per port ect… I don’t get how my 500mbs internet plan will be 50% faster (according to google) with a new router. Also I am unaware of any ISP providing 10GB of internet for standard consumers.
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The high speed is what you get for connections between your device and your router.
if the connection between your router and your ISP is much slower you won’t be able to connect to the internet at higher speeds.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and any network connection only has as much bandwidth as the part of the connection with the least bandwidth.
If you can connect with your computer to your router at a high bandwidth, but the connection between your router and your ISP is very slow, that means your connection from your device over your router to the ISP will be slow.
Even if both the connection to your router from your device and from your router to the ISP is fast, if the actual server you are connecting to has a low bandwidth available to connect to you over your ISP, you will be limited by that.
There is limited benefit for you for upgrading a link in the chain that is not the weakest.
However your router at home does offer some benefits if it has a faster network connection. You don’t just connect your device with it to the internet, you can also connect different devices in your home with it, so you can in theory move data between different devices connected to it at very high speeds as long as all devices in question support those speeds.
It probably won’t come up often unless you need to copy very large files from one very new laptop to another very new laptop in your home wlan very quickly, but the use case is there in theory at least.
And if nothing else it means your router is future proof and won’t be the weakest link if everything else catches up.
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