Wrote: Don't worry about file transfers from the internet. If you have a normal internet connection with 16000 mbit or less downspeed WLAN is more than enough and you cannot speed up anything. If you initiate the download with your pc the flow will always be router - pc - nas. A gigabit router would be a real benefit, if your pc is able to connect with gigabit speed. In this case all transfers between NAS and PC (ripping, tagging, file copieng) will be much faster. Thanks, I was afraid it would be a). The PC is connected via WLAN, but that one is faster than the 100mbit/s, so there might be a moderate improvement for PC-NAS communication. (2012-10-04 07:55) Quaternion Wrote: When I initiate a download of large files from a website to a directory on the NAS, what is the actual flow of data? Will it be a) from the router to the PC back to the router to the NAS or b) directly from the router to the NAS? If it were a) then I assume upgrading to Gigabit wouldn't improve this scenario as it is limited by the WLAN. If it were b) it should be substantially faster. Except that the limiting factor is the speed of your connection to the internet; I recently moved from ADSL, which gave 4Mb/s (megaBITS per second, not megaBYTES) to FTTC - Fibre to the Cabinet - which delivers 40Mb/s; the later is still "only" 40% of a 100Mb/s LAN