Comment on Router recommendations? (under 100CAD)
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months agoEdgeRouter X
More info on that model:
- Supports hairpin NAT
- WAN throughput limit is nearly 1Gbps (outbound + inbound combined) when not using CPU-heavy features like advanced buffer management or VPN
- Stock OS is a Vyatta variant (Debian-based)
- Has an OpenWRT port, which might be useful if Ubiquiti ever stops updating the stock OS
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In my experience, exactly 1Gbps. It has 1Gbps network ports, even with “advanced buffer management” / etc enabled.
I’m sure it slows own if you have thousands of people using it, but OP isn’t planning to do that and anyone who is should buy one with more than four LAN ports anyway.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
It slows down when using CPU-heavy features, even with a single user, because the CPU isn’t very fast. This doesn’t matter for things that can be offloaded, like basic routing and NAT. You can find multiple confirmations of this if you read through the community forum posts from the first couple years after it was released.
To be clear, though, it is an excellent value.
r00ty@kbin.life 6 months ago
It'll likely be like most routers I've seen. If hardware offloading is possible it'll have cpu to spare at 1gbps. If it isn't (mostly qos or other packet marking processes), then the cpu will get maxed and thruput drops.