Low Cost Routers with 100Mbps WAN Ports?

Ed asks: "I am getting ready to move into a dorm at Kent State, and they have a 100Mbps port in the room. They allow routers, and switches to connect more than 1 PC, however every router I see at the consumer level has a 10Mbps WAN port. I would really prefer not to waste having a 100BaseTX port on a 10Mbps router. Does anyone make a semi-low cost router with a 100Mbps WAN port?"

Comments

Re:It won't make any difference

[ivan256]

Maybe he wants 100Mbps connectivity to the other machines on campus.

Re:It won't make any difference

[disappear]

If you can demonstrate that your bandwidth to the Internet is greater than about 800 KB/s, I will personally give you a cookie.

Can I have one? I'm no longer working at UMBC, but they have an Internet^2 connection, and so their bandwidth to other I^2 sites is limited by the 100Mbps port on the desktop.

(Hint: there are a number of I^2 sites; I don't know if the questioner is on one, but if he is then there's good reason to want a 100Mbps uplink...)

Cheaper solution still

[biglig2]

If you're running multiple machines off the router, then a cheap solution is to just drop another 100Mb card into one of your machines and let it route. Note that this is not a really secure solution -much safer to have a stand-alone box. But if cost is a bigger factor than security...