# Do I need a G wireless router?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-a-g-wireless-router/594920>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 2, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-a-g-wireless-router/594920 "2011-09-02T03:27:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-a-g-wireless-router/594920/1 "2011-09-02T03:27:14Z")

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My friend is giving me an N wireless router. I’m going to use it with my Apple TV to steam Netflix and baseball with my Apple tv. My download speed is up to Mbps.

I don’t do any gaming. Is the N router good enough?

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**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-a-g-wireless-router/594920/2 "2011-09-02T03:38:12Z")

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> [@dalej42](#):
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> My friend is giving me an N wireless router. I’m going to use it with my Apple TV to steam Netflix and baseball with my Apple tv. My download speed is up to Mbps.
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> I don’t do any gaming. Is the N router good enough?

The N router is a later standard than G and is backwards compatible with G. There is no example I can think of where going back to G would be advantageous over a newer N. You might not get much benefit of N over G but there’s no benefit to G over N.