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USG series FW 3.00 Comparison

Very helpful. Thank you!

reply to Brano
Thanks

kirby

reply to Brano
Nice comparison chart --- would be very helpful if you can add a column specifying the CPU/speed being utilized.

CPU type and speed is not available in official documentation.
But if folks here can supply that info for various models I can add it.

Also whether a unit has FAN or not might be of interest to someone.

What I know:
USG 50: CPU CN50xx, no fans
USG 200: CPU MPC8343e, no fans

The CPU info can be obtained from CLI> psm atsh

reply to Brano
Additional info from here »Does USG 100 and 200 use the same Freescale 8343 400MHz CPU?

Summary:
USG 20W: CPU CN50xx, one fan
USG 50: CPU CN50xx, no fans, ?
USG 100: CPU MPC8343e, no fans, 266MHz (unconfirmed)
USG 200: CPU MPC8343e, no fans, 400MHz (chip MPC8343EVRAGDB = 400MHz)
USG 300: CPU MPC8347e, fan(s) yes, ?

Freescale MPC8343e part numbers and speeds table »www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/sit···ch=false

reply to Brano
The three 00 definitely has fans LOL

reply to Brano
USG 20W: CPU CN50xx, one fan

reply to Brano
I would also suggest that a column be added for the Number of Users each model is optimised for.

USG 100: 25 users
USG 200: 50 users
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David Mozer
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reply to Brano
My USG50 with 3.00BDS2 cannot push more than 90Mb/s through Firewall over wired LAN (LAN2 -> LAN1) or visa versa. When I connect same 2 devices to same LAN, throughput increases dramatically.

I have BWM turned off. CPU does not climb above 42% while transferring a single large file, so the USG50 doesn't appear to be overworked. I think I'm missing something... Any ideas?

I probably should have posted this in its own thread...

Can't comment really (ask ZyXEL) but here's what I've heard from ZyXel in various threads.
1) The advertised speeds are both ways, one way speed would be half of that number.
2) The fine print for SPI test from the datasheet says

quote:

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Testing Methodologies: Maximum performance based on RFC 2544 (UDP packets, 1,518 bytes).

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So, in other words......your mileage may vary.

I don't think we have block diagrams for all modes of the USG. It is plausible that if two ports are assigned to LAN1, the router functions mostly stay out of the way for traffic between them, and much of IPTables' functionality is not used.

I imagine that if the three LAN and one DMZ port were all reassigned to LAN1, the LAN side of the router would act as a somewhat managed switch.

kirby

Can't edit the first post, so here's updated table
- added Device High Availability info
- Front Panel info (from manual)

reply to Brano
For the USG 300

max number of users: 75

USG20(W) should be more than sufficient replacement for 2+.

Thanks Brano!