@ArcherC8 , well I'll be damed.  I'm pretty tech savy and just assumed that if they are advertising a router that can hit close to 900mbs on 5Ghz chanel, that the WAN (from the modem to router) would be up to par, i.e., 1000mps.  That is not the case.  Buyer beware.  Maximum speed for these low end routers is 100mbs combined from all sources because of the WAN limitation.

@JB2007 I had to dig to discover this "feature." The box clearly shows 300mbs & 867 mbs on the label, but does not clearly explain that it doesn't really give you those speeds. It should clearly state that the jack from the internet into the router is throttled to 100 mbs. That's all you get.
So TP can talk all they want about the product's great speeds, but it is basically a 10/100 jack. NOT the advertised 300 or 867 Mbps. 

My rhetorical question is "Whats the point?" I percieve this as very misleading since this is the way it is advertised. They bury the part that you don't get the speeds they promise. Very disappointed since I subscribed to 150 Mbs service because of what the ad listing and product container say. Now, it's just me throwing money away, because of shady advertising.

Hodgysan wrote

So TP can talk all they want about the product's great speeds, but it is basically a 10/100 jack. NOT the advertised 300 or 867 Mbps. 

 

@Hodgysan 

Those speeds are the CONNECTION speed for N and AC devices. Not the true speed, which depends on many variables. One, of course, the major one is the speed of the Internet Connection seen by the router. That would be the max. speed you could see under some circumstances. However, you could easily reach 1/2 of those speeds if you stayed on your LAN, that is PC to PC (and that depends on the internals of the PC, such as disk access speeds, speed of the disks, r/w speeds that is, and CPU capability to name a few). The spec's for the routers you mentioned do call those 'signal rates', not a speed rate by the way. Different 'animal' that the speed of transfer.

The input (WAN) is capped at 100mbs on these lower end/budget routers (on virtually ALL routers from all companies, not only TP-Link).  Thus, the output from LAN, 2.4 or 5GHz is necessairly capped to 100mbs, 95mbs if you factor in overhead.  You can't "out" more than you "in."