| hmm I am an It admin and at work I have a 100/100 fiber connection and have trouble finding things that can serve me things at that speed. I can't imagine having a gigabit connection .
Also I would think the router at the home would have trouble keeping up with it if more then say 2 or three people were using the connection at once. We had to build a pfsense router to just keep up with our 100/100 speeds. |
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Chesterfield, MO | I just purchased an ASUS Dark Knight WiFi router.
»www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless···&start=2
Based on the link's benchmark results, it was able to successfully route ~800Mbps. I cannot tell from the performance review how many clients generated the bandwidth (it's not clear) but they claimed it maxed out their test bench by successfully handling 34,925 simultaneous connections.
Even though this router is more expensive than most, it's still just a consumer device. In that context, it seems fishy that a consumer device could easily a 100/100 connection when your experience suggests something different. |
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| There is a difference from 2 machines hammering a router then 50 all at once while expecting the router to not fall to its knees.
Also add vpn, firewalling, and filtering some of those connections. A home router rarely has to do that for that many connections. |
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I'd mention to guess you don't use cisco gear, my asa's can do 622 mbit in vpn and with firewall going with over 300 rules and zoning.
My Gig Fiber links see almost full time 90 % usage when we shift all our vpn traffic to the 3rd link when we see usage creeping up. |
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said by majortom1029:I am an It admin and at work I have a 100/100 fiber connection and have trouble finding things that can serve me things at that speed. I can't imagine having a gigabit connection .
Also I would think the router at the home would have trouble keeping up with it if more then say 2 or three people were using the connection at once. We had to build a pfsense router to just keep up with our 100/100 speeds.
I have charters ultra 100 tier, with 3 or 4 users at a time, my Netgear has no issues keeping up with the download side and the upload side(even with torrents running and a total of 2000 connections open), plus, I have no problem downloading from 6-12MB/s from most websites. I don't know what your downloading, but the last time I downloaded anything from Technet, I get a solid 12.5MB/s thru the whole 3.5GB download. You do not need a PFsense box unless you are running tens of thousands of connections open at a time, and most home gigabit routers and NICs can handle 300-900mbps on the wired LAN side. Any of the routers on the top of this list(»www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/r···rts/view) can easily handle googles gigabit speeds. |
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