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This will depend on what kind of Internet connection you have, or expect to have in the future. Gigabit internet connections are becoming more common here in th
by spudlyo 8y ago
This will depend on what kind of Internet connection you have, or expect to have in the future. Gigabit internet connections are becoming more common here in the US, and some lower powered devices just can't route packets faster than say 100-200 Mbit/s.
I can tell you what I did, which may or may not be helpful to you. I got Linksys WRT AC3200[0]. The "AC3200" bit refers to a type of wifi 802.11ac configuration that has a theoretical bandwidth of 600 Mbit/s using the 2.4Ghz radio (good for distance and passing through interior walls) and 2.6 Gbit/s on the 5Ghz wifi radio. This is not the fastest or fanciest of the 802.11ac configurations, but it's up there.
One note about the marketing of this device, the MU-MIMO feature that you may read about is not really a thing yet. I don't have any devices that support it, and it's possible I never will.
Disregarding the radios entirely, this device can easily push 1 Gbit/s over the the ethernet ports, and can easily exceed 800 Mbit/s using the up-and-coming Linux kernel based VPN WireGuard.
This device is supported by OpenWRT, but if you don't want to compile and build it yourself you need to get it from a helpful guy on the net who maintains community builds for this router[1] and related chipsets. Support is available through a community forum[2].
I'm quite pleased with this device and firmware setup. I like that it can interface with my switch to sort out VLAN tags, I like that I can run cutting edge VPN software like WireGuard on it, I like that it's reliable and I haven't hard to reboot it randomly to "fix" it.
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JOXW3YE https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JOXW3YE
[1]: https://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/releases/#3200acm https://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/releases/#3200acm
[2]: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/davidc502-wrt1200ac-wrt1900acx-wrt3200acm-wrt32x-builds/15839 https://forum.openwrt.org/t/davidc502-wrt1200ac-wrt1900acx-w...
- 0xEFF 8y agoDo you happen to know the throughput when using PPPoE?
- spudlyo 8y agoI think it's roughly the same. I mean PPPoE framing like adds 8 bytes per packet, but not much you can do about that. My pal has this router and CenturyLink gigabit, which uses PPPoE, and he manages to get around 930 Mbits/s across the WAN.
- OJFord 8y agoWould you happen to know if the 25% cheaper 'gaming edition' is as good? Doesn't seem to have MU-MIMO, which from what you've said might be an easy saving: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linksys-WRT32X-UK-AC3200-Dual-Band-Prioritisation/dp/B075GWBC22 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linksys-WRT32X-UK-AC3200-Dual-Band-...
- darpa_escapee 8y agoAlways check reference each hardware revision with the OpenWRT wiki, sometimes chipsets and radios will change between revisions.
- spudlyo 8y agoSearch the Amazon comments and you'll see at least three folks who are running OpenWRT/Lede on this device. Pretty sure it uses the same "rango" chipset. My guess is that your instincts are right, and it's cheaper and pretty much the same thing.