You're not gonna saturate a DSL/cable connection over wireless.

Lets say you have a 10mbps internet connection. If you connect a 100mbps router to it, it'll show up as a 100mbps connection (as that's how fast the router'll talk to your computer). Irregardless of whether you have a 100 megabit or 1 gigabit wired router, you still have a 10 meg connection to the internet.

Unless you have a very expensive cable connection, you won't saturate the 802.11 speeds. I've never, never had a problem using high speed wireless connections.

Either you forgot to set up encryption and somebody is stealing your internet connection bandwidth, or you've got a software/hardware problem. There is nothing inherently flawed with wireless networks.

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