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Wireless Router G vs N Speed Question
I currently have a linksys wrt54g router for many many years already.
My linksys wrt54g is still pretty good for my laptop that works good with the wireless. However, when i download something big. it rarely goes over 200kbps on the laptop to download something. But when i download something on my desktop it always goes at least 500kbps. Sometimes it goes 800kbps and 1mbps when downloading when im looking at the download speed when its downloading. I'm not sure if my letters are right with the kbps or mbps but i think you know what i mean.
Is this b/c my desktop is wired which is why download speed is so fast?
Also is it because my linksys router is a G router which is why it would never go like the speed of my desktop? I mean sometimes it does go 500kbps when downloading a big 100mb file but its rare and speed always goes back to between 100-200 kbps.
If one uses an N router on my laptop when downloading... would i see downloading speed go as fast as my desktop?