said by RBP36:Moral of the story - Use good quality - up to date firewall hardware and firmware. Wireless will always cut the rate.
I agree...most "home grade" broadband routers that are over a year or so old...will start running out of steam around 10-15-20 megs throughput or so. Older ones even less..under 8-10 megs. So they'll be your bottleneck.
The above bursts above 65,000 that I posted a screenie of below...I obtain those from both my RV082, and my IPCop box (separately..not using at same time)