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I wonder what kind of router they put in at the home. I doubt your standard Linksys WiFi router will be able to cope at that speed.
by mbreese 15y ago
I wonder what kind of router they put in at the home. I doubt your standard Linksys WiFi router will be able to cope at that speed.
- maratd 15y agoAny gigabit router should be able to handle that, even Linksys.
- msbarnett 15y agoIt's not enough that they 'support' gigabit ethernet; most cheap routers will fall over long before they hit that speed.
- mbreese 15y agoRight... especially on the WAN port. Most cheap routers aren't expecting to have to route gigabit traffic, hence the initial question.
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- derobert 15y agoDual-band, double-width-channel 11n might be able to do that speed. But even if not, the gigabit wired ports ought to be able to.
- nitrogen 15y agoSome routers' CPUs simply aren't fast enough to forward traffic from the WAN to the LAN. Before I replaced my router with a higher-end model, my 50mbit/s cable connection ran at 30. Now it peaks at 60.
- wmf 15y agoSpecifically, here's a list of home routers sorted by performance: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/view http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/view Looks like there are only about 20 routers that can handle 150 Mbps or more.
- patrickgzill 15y agohttp://routerboard.com/RB750GL http://routerboard.com/RB750GL current retail is $59.95, I am sure they would make Google a deal ... Actually there are many single-chip, 4x Gigabit ethernet solutions on the market. These do wire-speed gbit "in hardware" as it were.
- wmf 15y agoAccording to the very page you linked its maximum routing throughput is 631 Mbps which is respectable but hardly wire-speed.
- jrockway 15y agoIndeed. I have a Soekris router with a gigabit card, but the best it can do is around 400Mbps. Packet filtering and NAT require some computation, and 1Gbps is a lot of data. Then again, I can actually use Bittorrent without having to reboot the router :)