South Korea Aims For 1Gbps > core

core

Also are there any home routers that can handle 100/100 speeds let alone gigabit?

Most of the major router manufactures have GigE routers. Japan has had 100/100 for quite a while. They have routers too.

I am talking about getting actual gigabit speeds through them not the ports themselves.

Most if not all routers dont have the processing power to give out 1 gig speeds.

Lots of homes run GigE within the house. Personally I usually just suggest adding a GigE switch (cheaper than switching to a GigE router). Those systems easily handle multiple 90MB/s transfers without issue (a->b and c->d). Running at GigE speeds does not require much processing power at all. What does require lots of processing power is running hundreds of connections at once (p2p type apps).

More processing power is required for throughput and memory is required for state tables, and if you use NAT you need both for keeping states and rewriting packets.

I have pfsense running on server class hardware (Dell 2950 x 2) and we get 800MBps tops.

Eat Me

800MBps or 800Mbps? Internet is generally sold in Mbps. GigE which is 1000Mbps is (as stated above) only 125MB/s or 125MBps(theoretical) and is usually only 90MB/s(effectively). If you can do 800Mbps(100MB/s) you are doing quite well.

800 megabits per second.

I was typing on my phone and it auto spell corrected.

Remember this is not a home internet connection, so we are not doing quite well, we have 2Gbps to the cage so we have firewall upgrades down the pipeline.

If you mean 800Mbps out of a 2Gbps line, then no something is very wrong. If you mean 800Mbps on a 1Gbps line then you are not going to get much better. Depending on who you talk to there is a 15-20% overhead for tcp. Just look at Ethernet 100, very few people get much above 9.5 MB/s (76Mbps) over it despite how long it has been around.

reply to diskace
He is talking about LANWAN TRANSFERS