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"For router choice the first consideration is the speed of the WAN. Once that is decided then one can move on to what other features are required in the network. For example, my own home network has a VDSL link that max's at about 70Mb/s. This means I can choose almost any router I want. BUT I also want a bit of security and rather than faff around with a separate firewall I have a router that does ZBFW. I can enhance that with basic good practice for device hardening and I'm all set.Internally I have all gigabit switches and wireless AC access points. It'll be a while yet before phones or tablets can realistically and reliably go faster than 400 to 500Mb/s and most wired devices are tripped up by TCP windowing long before gigabit speeds are reached. That said I appeciate that one may want all the latest and fastest \"just because...\" but real world speed and efficiency have little to do with shiny marketing brochures and headline speed values that are only attainable in the test lab. iPerf will tell you what's really going on, speed-wise. There are plenty of videos of how to do this on the LAN. For th einternet connection set up an iPerf server in a free AWS instance and measure/monitor to your hearts content. There's an iPerf app for Android too. No idea if there is one for Apple so if you're an Apple user head over to the app store and have a look."
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