Gigabit Routing Performance Home Routers

[mischievious]

Originally Posted by popper

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.......

presumably you are talking about turning a small low powered pc into a router capable of linking lan to wan (lets for now ignore the previous stuff about private wan for simplicity) with Gbit net adapters? I think I am with you.... but sorry if I didn't find the post entirely clear.

In this instance I would agree but you would require a good technical understanding plus you may also find that you ISP may well be relying on the fact that current private HW is slow. This gives them an escape clause, "it's your router".... Having had to deal with a number of ISP's professionally, I am sceptical of them all.....

I hope your experiences in Holland are much better

[kpanchev]

Given the described situation, your only option is a custom build. If you are familiar with linux, it should take you a couple of hours to set one, if not, there are plenty of ready-made distros with web interface wizard-like configuration to play with... As for the power consumption, if you can afford a gigabit wan, I don't think that will be a problem...

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by kpanchev

Given the described situation, your only option is a custom build. If you are familiar with linux, it should take you a couple of hours to set one, if not, there are plenty of ready-made distros with web interface wizard-like configuration to play with... As for the power consumption, if you can afford a gigabit wan, I don't think that will be a problem...

Yes, this is pretty much what I thought. I am familiar enough with Linux, it powers the appliances I work on full time, so that's likely the way I'll have to go.

Plenty of options for network cards, be it a single dual port network card or two single ports, and I can just hook the LAN side up to a gigabit switch to provide the port density so that won't be a problem.

As far as affording goes, well, some places aren't like the UK!

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Originally Posted by mischievious

This gives them an escape clause, "it's your router".... Having had to deal with a number of ISP's professionally, I am sceptical of them all.....

I hope your experiences in Holland are much better

Oh a quick Iperf between devices on WAN and LAN ports on router soon puts anything like that to bed

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

...snippety snip snip...
I know, who would ever want to leave the UK? Quality of life is so high here, such low taxes, such great public services, and the people are fantastic, so safe and peaceful even late at night. Why on earth would anyone ever leave?

Feel free to think of me as insane for wanting to leave this wonderful country.

If you are going to Holland, the taxes are higher
"- Part of the income from EUR 0 to EUR 17,878: 33.5 %
- Part of the income from EUR 17,878 to EUR 32,127: 42 %
- Part of the income from EUR 32,127 to EUR 54,776: 42 %
- Above that: 52 %."
National Health Insurance is on top of that.

[Ignitionnet]

Surprisingly I know this, and am indifferent you actually see something for the taxes you pay, while here a fair proportion appears to go to people who do not wish to work and/or protest against our way of life.

Cost of living there is substantially lower in many ways which compensates and indirect taxes tend to be lower.

Income Tax is a pointless value in the UK as there are so many other ways that the government puts hands into our pockets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...centage_of_GDP

Ah btw the health insurance / social security premium is taken into account with the lower brackets of tax, the actual income tax rates are 2.35% and 10.85% for the lower two brackets but this is boosted as the premiums are taken into account and capped to an income of 30,015 euro.

The Netherlands has partly a progressive tax rate. In the very past the highest income bracket in the Netherlands was 72%, in 1990 the highest income bracket became 60% and in 2001 it became 52%. The brackets now are 2.35%, 10.85%, 42% and 52%. But the first two brackets also contains the Social Security payments (premiums, AOW, ANW and AWBZ), making it effectively 33.5%, 42%, 42% and 52%.

[mischievious]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

Oh a quick Iperf between devices on WAN and LAN ports on router soon puts anything like that to bed

Depends on your ISP I guess:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...d_speed_tests/

They may still find someone/something else to blame.

[popper]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

Yes, this is pretty much what I thought. I am familiar enough with Linux, it powers the appliances I work on full time, so that's likely the way I'll have to go.

Plenty of options for network cards, be it a single dual port network card or two single ports, and I can just hook the LAN side up to a gigabit switch to provide the port density so that won't be a problem.

As far as affording goes, well, some places aren't like the UK!

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Oh a quick Iperf between devices on WAN and LAN ports on router soon puts anything like that to bed

i was doing some browsing for wireless gigaE and external band B wireless kit and came across this set of boards Broadbandings

the Atheros at 680MHz should be more than able to cope with full gigE, its a shame we cant get these in generic SOHO kit
http://www.mikrotik-store.eu/product...450G--L4-.html

72,80 EUR
excl. 19 % Tax excl. Shipping costsProduct No.: RB/450G
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Mini Router
CPU Atheros AR7161 680MHz
5 x 10/100/1000 Ethernetports
Memory 32MB/256MB
Storage 64 MB
Power Jack 10~28V DC
RouterOS Level4