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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am looking for a home router with a WAN-LAN and LAN-WAN throughput as close to 1Gbps each way as possible.
About the best I've found so far has a throughput of both combined around 570Mbps.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I'd rather avoid the expense of a commercial Gigabit router if at all possible and I'm really not that up on home hardware.
Cheers.
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BB, by far your best option is to check out
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/compo...rt/Itemid,189/
it covers more than your low/mid end home/SOHO kit OC ,it happens to be the best source of real data including cpus you will find anywere ,and its about the only place to get any real indepth feedback too.
so no single recomendation from me, as you already know its all about the chipset SOC speeds regarding max throughput per port etc......
the good old build your own is always a good option too ,if you can ballance the costs of parts against the power usage, and the low power micro motherboards are getting cheaper by the day, assuming you can find enough slots and (dual+) ethernet gigE cards to populate to your needs or a good external cheap gigE switch to plug into a single port OC but power useage increases that way.......
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Originally Posted by kpanchev
Just out of interest, where did you manage to get WAN link at 1Gbps?
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it appears broadbanding is on the move
but you dont have to assume the WAN port is going to connect directly to some ISP somewere, you can just as easly make your own WAN (wide area network) and mutiport it through any and all ISPs/Co-Location sites that the WAN connects to for your web connections.
bonding was and is again very popular in private WAN circles...
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Then what on earth is the point of having the WAN and LAN as Gigabit?
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Ben we have been through this before, remember its all well and good to asume things based on PR and sales information, but as proven by the 11g and its
22 Mbit/s max REAL throughput its the same for most lower/mid range 11n too.
put simply they cut costs by using lower rated/slower cpus cores inside the SOC (SystemOn a Chip) that runs the device and so the units cant sustain the advertised top speeds when all the bells and wistles are turned on and sent to the internal CPU to process etc....it basicly runs out of steam as it were....
on many 11n routers you will find there are lots of 10/100 fast ethernet switches and gigE models , the only main difference is the core SOC speed and a gig chipset between the lower and higher models , higher clockspeed is better in the same cpu family just like x86 ,the best cpu for routers oc being PPC but thats for your industral lines as the companies dont make SOHO PPC based routers cheap or not that i know of at least?
infact i was amazed to see that the
http://www.additionsdirect.co.uk/rf/...dband%20Router referenced router actually finally hints in the pr at the need for better internal cpu/soc speeds as it states "It features the fastest processor in the D-Link Wireless N range, achieving the best throughput results ever between WAN and LAN networks...."