High Speed Wireless Router

Is there a speed on wireless router? If my internet connection speed is higher than the router speed, how?

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1. Usually the speed of your router (wireless and wired) will be much faster than your internet speed. The main advantage of routers is the speed that you can transfer files between computers, and the fact a net connection can be shared between multiple computers. Internet connections do not usually slow down when connected via a router. But you can share 1GB (pictures, home movies, ect) a LOT quicker over a network than the internet.
2. Your Internet speed at present is not higher than the wireless G routers therefore don't worry about the new routers that are faster because they only will make the LAN network faster not your Internet connection.
3. Most wireless routers are much slower than normal wired routers. You will have to pay several hundred dollars to get a wireless router that matches the speed of a wired one costing 50 to 70 bucks. For that reason I don't use a wireless router. Anyway, what's wrong with a tiny piece of wire? It's only a metre long.
4. Internet connections usually are much slower than what the router can aprehend. Wireless routers comes in standards such as '802.11b' for 11 megabits per second and '802.11g' for '54' megabit persecond. and even newer routers can handle up to 108 megabit persecond. most internet connection runs around 1 megabit perseconds only. so you can stop worry about the bottle-neck being the router. Altough if a wireless router has multiple clients theres one more concern. wireless connections for multiple users tend to have data 'collision' problem where 2 or more data packets are received before one of them got a chance to complete the transfer. Thus data packets need to be re-send. this causes overall performance drop in troughput and user will seem to experience slow internet connection. The more simoutaneous user the more severe the effect. you can monitor the effect by log into your router's setting page and look for a page with title like 'status' and 'statistics'. for my connection, the counters in 'error' and 'collision' is '0' all the time cuase i dont have multiple users. if the counter under 'ADSL' reports some error count, that means your out-bound connection is faulty. this could mean the old phone copper wire in some country and faulty fibre optic cable in others.