@qasdfdsaq thanks for the advice. The TPLink routers look good. I like the bang per buck they appear to give and the gradual price rises as the features increase. I am off to read up on them now.
I still want to solve the above problem though. It can't be a general problem surely as other people would have seen it? Maybe it is the combination of streaming to a PS3 that does it. I wonder if someone could test streaming to a PS3.
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@qasdfdsaq I just found your post
here from a search where you reply to the TPLink rep from HQ. It's quite interesting that he states the - presumably "on paper" - WAN to LAN throughput as around half of what you tested it to be. Very interesting indeed. For me personally, I'm not bothered about dual band wireless as I have too many clients on 2.4ghz band, so....the TL-WR1043ND looks to be a bargain at £38.11.... if....and only if it does in fact have WAN to LAN throughput of which matches the WR2543ND. You state above you think it would be similar since it uses the same hardware internally. How confident of that are you?
Serious bang per buck right there with the 1043ND.
EDIT:
Just seen that the specs for the 1043ND vs 2543ND. The CPU is actually a newer revision on the older 1043ND it seems ? I would assume the performance of WAN to LAN throughput should be near identical and if anything better on the 1043ND? Yet tests seem to put it at 120mbps.
1043ND:
System on chip:
AR9132 rev 2
CPU speed = 400mhz
Flash = 8mb
Ram = 32mb
Ethernet: Realtek
RTL8366RB
2543ND:
System on chip:
AR7242
CPU speed = 400mhz
Flash = 8mb
Ram =
64mb
Ethernet: Realtek
RTL8367R
Cheers