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Originally Posted by Kushan
Before you purchase a new router, remember that the speed you can get depends on both ends - what are you using to test your wireless? If it's a PC/Laptop, investigate what kind of wireless card it has in it, it might not be capable of 5Ghz, it might be single stream (Which means you're not going to get much above what you're getting now).
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You may well be right.
All my households pc's are on a wired connection anyway and are getting about 94MB through the Netgear N150 router; close enough to 100MB for me. The only things I have wireless are a laptop (a lenovo s400 ideapad) and a Android Moto G phone, both of which are getting about 50MB wireless according to speed tests, bit of a coincidence. I suspect the Moto G wouldn't take any more anyway and I don't need anymore on it. The laptop will get the same 94MB if I wire it up and 50 MB wireless. The wireless network adapter on it is an IntelCentrino (R) Wireless - N2230, so not sure if thats capable of 5Ghz.
tbh I wasn't really looking for a speed upgrade anyway but 100 worked out cheaper than 50MB when renegotiating my package for some bizarre reason.
Will probably stick with the Netgear N150 router for now (what wireless speed should it be capable of in the real world ?)