Will I Need a New Router to upgrade to 500Mbps Internet Speed
Hi
I've just joined this forum hoping to find out something I've been unable to find on the wider internet - but let me explain.
A few days ago we received a letter from BT to say that our area could now get full fibre and having had a look at the BT website it looks like we are paying through the nose for standard broadband (fibre to cabinet) plus Halo1 (whatever that may be). However, it looks like we can get 500Mbps for less than we're paying just at the moment for around 36Mbps. Now we have a TP-Link Archer A7 AC1750 router and whilst it has done us proud I do wonder if it is man enough to accept possible speeds of up to 500Mbps from the internet.
Nowhere have I been able to find out what speed INPUT it will accept. Yes, outputs are a theoretical 450Mbps at 2.4GHz and 1300Mbps at 5GHz but what speed input will it accept. If we were to go to a 500Mbps internet speed I suspect we'd have to get a faster router.
Can anyone confirm this please or otherwise put me right and if I'm right and we'd have to change our router, which router would folk recommend - TP-Link of course?
At this point I should say that there are only two of us here and we're both well retired. Currently we only connect a few items via the internet - our PCs of course (three off), two mobiles, a Sky Q box and a Kindle - and thats about it. We don't watch films so have no need of things like Netflix so our needs are fairly basic.
Any help would be most appreciated and if you have any questions then please ask and I'll do my best to help. Thanks.
Tracey