What is the minimum internet speed to use a wireless router?

Question

I'm thinking of buying a wireless router when I get set up in my new apartment, but I don't know what the minimum internet connection speed has to be in order for it to work. Would 256Kbps be enough? Do I need a higher speed?

Answer 1

U can get any speed which u can get from ur ISP ...It can be anything from 128 kbps to 1 mbps or so...It all depends on ur budget if u have or on the b/w u might use every month..Choose according to ur use to be economical...Ur router can support the max bandwidth based on model ...

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Answer 2

It doesn't matter what speed your getting from your ISP, your router will run on any speed that is provisioned for you. But keep in mind that the more people are using the internet through that router the slower the internet connection is going to be. Now.. since you have built a local network, there are going to be concerns on your end, your LAN speed is based on the hardware you have, usually at 10 mbps to 100 mbps that how your LAN transmits data from end to end. Since you now added another service - internet, that will be shared on your LAN, the more users slower connection, now you have to consider how many people are going to use the shared internet connection and for what they are going to use it, for emails and browsing having 4 users 256kbps is enough, but for heavy online gaming go for 1.5mbps or higher, since games and bandwidth hungry monsters.

Answer 3

Here's a quick example:
I have FiOS and I get 10Mbps (Mega BITS per second) download max. This averages to about 1250KBps ( KiloBYTES a second)
A 802.11g routers can transmit/receive up to 54Mbps (Mega BITS per second).
So that all being said your internet speed can't communicate data to you as fast as you can communicate to someone else using your router (two machines on the same router). So you are never using the full capacity of your wireless router when you are downloading things from the internet.

Answer 4

The speeds at which your wireless router communicates with your computers' wireless networking cards is not related to the speed of your internet connection.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Basic DSL will work, but I'd spend the extra few bucks for something in the 1 Mbps range. Upload speeds are always a little clunky on DSL, but that's the nature of the beast.

Answer 7

Since a wireless router only runs as 54 mbps (which is slower then your 256), you would be able to run it on that connection.

Answer 8

There really is no minimum speed. You should be plenty fine.