even if the pipe were bigger, would the source website be able to provide data at the maximum rate that you could be download? [/quote] I'm looking into the Netgear R6300 router but there are quite a few router that come with a Gigabit Ethernet port. Limiting factor for my internet downloads is the DSL speed of about 3.5 Mbit/s. The traffic will take the Router-PC- Router-NAS path for downloads that are saved to a NAS directory. A Router with a Gigabit port would only improve the last step between Router and NAS. Sluggish file operations between PC and NAS might be improved by a Router with a Gigabit port as the limiting factor is currently the 100MBit/s ethernet port the NAS is using, while the PC is connected at more than 200MBit/s via WLAN. (2012-10-04 09:49) Quaternion Wrote: My router tells me, the PC is connected with 216MBit/s, so more than twice the LAN speed. Unfortunately, the speeds quoted around WLAN connections really don't happen at those speeds. Wireless G was theoretically a 54Mbit/s connection, but most people got single digit speeds. Wireless N was 108Mbit/s but again many people were only get 15-20Mbit/s actual speeds due to interference, signal strength etc. You're probably in the same position. If you want to buy a new router to get a NAS connection which is faster than 100Mbit/s you can, but I'd be very surprised if it makes any difference! You can always try it by just doing one test download