Super slow download, fast upload - reason?

[slh]

Your 10 year old router (model) was designed with 50 MBit/s WAN connections in mind, you're just expecting too much from this hardware.

So you have 500Mbps-1Gbps fiber and need a router READ THIS FIRST

It's such a frequently asked question over the last few years that we really need a post we can point people to. So your cable company rolled out 500Mbps or 1Gbps download speeds, or you have 1Gbps symmetric fiber (GPON/EPON) from ATT or Centurylink or Orange or whoever. You realize your old all in one router from 2009 is not up to the task of handling this, but hey by now stuff should be cheap and available that will handle your new fiber connection right? So you want advice about a router for…

While you don't need to go quite that far for 300 MBit/s, you will still need a faster and more modern router for that.