Is there any difference in ethernet performance amongst WiFi routers with 1Gb ports?

[viivo]

For example, between an AC1200 router thats costs around $30 and an AC5400 that is ~$300. Both have Gigabit ethernet ports - would there be a noticeable difference in wired network performance?

I'm asking because I want to justify a new router purchase, but the one I have now works fine for wired and wireless. But any improvement to wired performance/stability would be reason enough to upgrade.

 

[auntjemima]

For example, between an AC1200 router thats costs around $30 and an AC5400 that is ~$300. Both have Gigabit ethernet ports - would there be a noticeable difference in wired network performance?

I'm asking because I want to justify a new router purchase, but the one I have now works fine for wired and wireless. But any improvement to wired performance/stability would be reason enough to upgrade.

No. gigabit is gigabit.

 

[viivo]

No. gigabit is gigabit.

Great. Good to know it passes through absolutely untouched.

 

[Haven]

If there is any performance difference it won't be because of the Ethernet ports. It will be CPU, memory, and what things the routers do.

 

[scrappymouse]

depends on your router, I've had some "gigabit" router ports that work fine for the LAN side, but I had a faster internet connection and my router wasn't able to handle it, it turned out that my WAN-LAN throughput was horrid(100) check out https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/old-tools/charts/router/bar/74-wan-to-lan

 

[mac1]

There are also multi gig Ethernet ports which allow for 2,3,4 gig transfer speed but you would also need a switch which supports that.