Comcast gave me a $1 upgrade a couple weeks ago to 60Mbps (their network sucks balls and they're really sorry, etc), however my good ol' WRT54Gl seems to be shitting the bed and bottlenecking me down to something like 35 MBps. First I'm wondering how, since I only have one machine attached to it and 100Mb > 60Mb... Can the little beast really not deliver half of its theoretical throughput on one port? I don't have QoS enabled or anything and there's only one device on the network so no one is leeching. If there's nothing I can do about it what are some good, cheap DDWRT compatible routers that will actually give me something close to 100Mb? 802.11n optional, but gotta have removable antennas. I don't care about 802.11ac yet since I don't have any devices that support it, and it looks like it's going to jump up to 6Gb at some point in the near future and till then I have a gigabit switch for local file transfers.
This is a problem with wireless.... its not reliable for any set distance... You could be sitting on top of your router and maybe get the advertised speeds but you are at a point where your internet service is faster than what your router can throughput to a single computer...
60mbps is ~7.5MBps wireless G is not going to supply that. Wireless N can supply that at a fair distance, if you live in an apartment or there is lots of interference that will affect how far away you will get that speed.
You dont need to get Wireless AC to achieve your current speed (60Mbps), however if you want to be able to consistently get a sustained 100Mbps then I think wireless AC is the only thing that can do that. Wireless N starts to top out at about 80Mbps...