If i buy a MI router 3 which has a 10/100 wan port, will it handle a 120 Mbps internet speed or it's gonna be limited to 100 Mbps?
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The wanport will ensure that the internet speed will not excel 100mbit, but if a device has only a 10/100 mbit port, it is likely that its internal processing power is going to be far less. I would recommend searching for a different router.
No, it most likely won't in theory. In practice you're unlikely to be bottlenecked by it in most cases since most sites would be slower than that anyway.
In practice, with most ISPs, your downstream and upstream are different as well. So, under ideal, perfect conditions, you'd be losing out on a bit of speed on downstream. I'd actually be more concerned with other things, like whether the hardware can manage the traffic, and general reliability.
In my opinion that's a rather strangely designed piece of kit but unless you manage to bring it to its knees, it's probably good enough.
