Im paying about 100 a month just for internet access. I was wrong, my connection isn't in megabytes but I am paying for 20 megabits and I'm sure of that. In actual speed tests I get about 17-18 megabits per second. The service I get is pretty new for residential areas I think, its fiber optic all the way to my neighborhood, maybe even to my house I'm not sure. I'm not an expert on this and you seem to know what your talking about so I could be wrong, my ISP is surewest if you want to look it up I dont know if I can post a link to their site but it shouldn't be hard to figure out. Maybe your school has a 20 mega BYTE connection which would explain that cost because surewest also offers a 50 mbit connection and it doesnt even come close to ONE thousand dollars, and if it is false advertising I seriously doubt they could advertise a speed more than twice what you'd actually get. Either way, you sound like you can answer my original question which is if the wireless router's speed effects internet browsing or just the information you pass between computers on the network, mainly just comparing G and N.