 joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | Self-confessed bandwidth nerd Kudos to FIOS! As a self-confessed bandwidth nerd, I can tell you that 100M/100M service is wonderful to behold. I find new uses for it every day.
But if you think it's easy to push more than 100M thru a typical router/firewall, think again! I had to build a special router from a single-board computer to even get to this speed:
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Traceroute to Google? |
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 gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2
 ·Suddenlink
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said by joebarnhart:Kudos to FIOS! As a self-confessed bandwidth nerd, I can tell you that 100M/100M service is wonderful to behold. I find new uses for it every day. But if you think it's easy to push more than 100M thru a typical router/firewall, think again! I had to build a special router from a single-board computer to even get to this speed: Do you have room in your closet for me? If not, do you have room in your closet for a few servers? 
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gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Suddenlink
| Oh man, this is so not fair..
»paxio.net/ResidentialData
"Gigabit (1,000Mbps/1,000Mbps) - Need we say more? $245.00"
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Give me bandwidth or give me death!
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 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Ya.. No chance in hell we'll ever see that here. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to gatorkram
uhmmmmm assuming you're one of the 50 people that paxio is available to
meh
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yeah we got 100/100 fiber conenction to here at work last year (for 3,000 a month for 100/100 plus a 6 strand dark fiber connection between both buildings) and it rocks.
We ran into that problem also. Had to build a pfsense router from one of our servers to get the speed. Couldnt find a router under $1000 that woulld give us the speeds.
MY speeds are similiar to yours
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1 edit | I have 150/150 at work but the experience isn't at all different from my 30/2 at home except for large downloads and similar.
We use cisco (not linksys) routers so there's no problem with the router being a bottleneck. |
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 DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | reply to majortom1029
said by majortom1029:yeah we got 100/100 fiber conenction to here at work last year (for 3,000 a month for 100/100 plus a 6 strand dark fiber connection between both buildings) and it rocks. We ran into that problem also. Had to build a pfsense router from one of our servers to get the speed. Couldnt find a router under $1000 that woulld give us the speeds. MY speeds are similiar to yours ok so you spend 3K/month on bandwidth but wouldn't spend more than 1k(one time cost) on a router
somethings wrong there
for a connection like that I'm sure it would be easy to get a cisco 3945 router and have it handle it
as for router readyness I'm ready with my cisco 3745 which I've tested routing speeds to over 100mbit (need a faster computer to got higher on the test) |
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | reply to iansltx
Your wish is my suggestion...
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.19.147
traceroute to google.com (74.125.19.147), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 my.pfsense.box (192.168.51.1) 0.956 ms 0.543 ms 0.394 ms
2 64-201-y-x.TrueBroadband.paxio.net (64.201.y.x) 0.778 ms 0.911 ms 0.752 ms
3 63-216-65-137.paxio.net (63.216.65.137) 1.311 ms 1.323 ms 1.009 ms
4 63-216-64-193.paxio.net (63.216.64.193) 1.150 ms 1.282 ms 1.263 ms
5 ge6-11.br01.sjo01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.7.57) 1.576 ms 1.552 ms 1.474 ms
6 74.125.49.45 (74.125.49.45) 1.351 ms 1.420 ms 1.487 ms
7 72.14.239.250 (72.14.239.250) 2.089 ms 33.754 ms 216.239.46.194 (216.239.46.194) 2.283 ms
8 209.85.251.94 (209.85.251.94) 5.244 ms 4.309 ms 2.178 ms
9 nuq04s01-in-f147.1e100.net (74.125.19.147) 2.090 ms 2.341 ms 1.907 ms
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | reply to majortom1029
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said by majortom1029: Had to build a pfsense router from one of our servers to get the speed. Couldnt find a router under $1000 that woulld give us the speeds. Hey, I'm a pfSense user too! It's an AWESOME firewall/router for the price (open source code). You can do absolutely anything with it -- even has neat RRD graphs like this latency view -- built in!
If anyone needs a kickass router, check it out! »www.pfsense.org |
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Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to joebarnhart
I do agree.. But why pay several thousand dollars for a router, when a darn PC running pfSense, m0n0wall, or Smoothwall will do the exact same thing?
..not to mention.. If a port goes out on a Cisco router, be prepared to fork over lots of $$$.. If a card goes out in a PC, just run to your local electronics store, pay under $50 for a decent network card, and swap it out.
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Bresnan 15M/1M|MyWS[P4HT@4.01GHz,2GB RAM,2x1TB HDDs,Win7]|WifeWS[P4@2.4GHz,1GB RAM,60GB HDD,Win7]|Router[2xP3@1GHz,640MB RAM,18GB HDD,Allied Telesyn AT-2560FX,Kingston KNE100TX,2xDigital DE504,Compaq NC3131,iPro/1000DP,Blitz BWI715,Gentoo Linux] |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
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Awesome  Isn't it lovely not to have the 10ms lag of cable or the 20+ms lag of interleaved DSL? Sitting on a DSL connection right now and though I have a nice straight path from here (TX hill country) to Dallas my ping is 31ms due to first-hop latency (21ms). :/ |
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | reply to gatorkram
said by gatorkram:Do you have room in your closet for me? No, but I'm accepting applications for a girlfriend. Some nice 30's to 40's lady who appreciates my big pipe. Er... that didn't come out the right way...  |
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When your a library using public funds its really hard to justify the router expense when you have perfectly good hardware lying around.
We were able to justify the 1000/100 service because it came with the dark fiber connection. |
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That seems odd to me. My router is a Pentium 200MHz with 64MB RAM, and it routes/NAT at 25Mb down and 30Mb up with maybe 25% CPU load. I have not tried to max out the up and down at the same time. But I expect that 15 year old PC could handle it. So a newer P4 should do 100Mb without effort. The PC is running Linux and using iptables.
My FIOS service is 25/15 but I get 25/30. |
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | said by AstroBoy: So a newer P4 should do 100Mb without effort. The PC is running Linux and using iptables. I absolutely agree. I'm using a VIA powered single-board computer running pfSense. I have an Intel Pro-1000 card with 2 ports for WAN and LAN and a built in port for DMZ (isolated wireless). An iptables solution on a Linux box would do fine as well.
But realize, this is about 1000% more capability than most people get from their Fry's "Airlink" brand no-name router for $39. Actually, even the name brand Linksys, Netgear, etc. routers won't come close to powering a 100M/100M connection.
With pfSense and my VIA board I can get 100M/100M and not saturate the box. I'll need a local speedtest server to see if I can push any more thru this box. Using a lower-powered "wrap" or "alix" platform from PC Engines I can get up to about 40M. It would be a perfect solution for a FiOS user. |
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