any degrade of the wired network when connected to a home-use cheap router?

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kenny1999

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Hi , I've just bought a NetGear low-end wireless router for home-use. Since I also need a wired connection in addition to wireless connection, I have connected an addition lan cable that comes out from the router to my main PC.

I 'd like to know if the wired connection would be degraded in terms of speed, quality of the signal after coming out from the router?

If it is likely, I would then disconnect and take away the router every time when I have to download heavy files or play games with my PC or when I don't need wireless connection.

Please let me know.

Thank you.
 
Your 'plan B' sounds pretty horrendous.

The equation depends on the speed of your Internet connection and the CPU within the router. Most lower end devices can't keep up with fast (100+mbps) Internet packages, but if you have anything moderate it should work.

How fast is your internet package and what model of router did you get?
 
beers said:
Your 'plan B' sounds pretty horrendous.

The equation depends on the speed of your Internet connection and the CPU within the router. Most lower end devices can't keep up with fast (100+mbps) Internet packages, but if you have anything moderate it should work.

How fast is your internet package and what model of router did you get?
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so do you mean the output signal (wired) after going through the router, could be degraded compared to the input signal (wired) before going into the router??

I am using broadband 100Mbps (actual local speed is 90 MB/s upload or download )

Router : NetGear N300 Wireless Router with External Antennas Model No. JWNR2010
 
kenny1999 said:
so do you mean the output signal (wired) after going through the router, could be degraded compared to the input signal (wired) before going into the router??

I am using broadband 100Mbps (actual local speed is 90 MB/s upload or download )
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'Signal degraded' is a bit of a misnomer. If your router can't route x amount of traffic then you will only see performance for how much it can actually pass. "Signal strength" really doesn't have anything to do with it.

Please explain what you mean by local speed. If your NIC is 100 mbps that does not insinuate your broadband package is.

Otherwise that looks like a pretty low end N router but should suit most basic needs.
 
beers said:
'Signal degraded' is a bit of a misnomer. If your router can't route x amount of traffic then you will only see performance for how much it can actually pass. "Signal strength" really doesn't have anything to do with it.

Please explain what you mean by local speed. If your NIC is 100 mbps that does not insinuate your broadband package is.

Otherwise that looks like a pretty low end N router but should suit most basic needs.
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I am not quite sure about the terms

Let me put it in this way


Case A: lan cable <--> PC (without router)

Case B: lan cable <--> router <--> PC

Would the performance in case B degrade?, assume all other situations are kept the same
 
That's what beers was saying earlier. Likely no performance difference, but low end routers can have trouble with very fast internet packages. Do you have a 100Mbit internet service? or are you only getting 100Mbit from a speedtest?
 
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