I just moved to a new area and have the luck of a symmetric gigabit fiber connection. I have been doing a bunch of research as to what sort of hardware might suit me but I can’t seem to find any solid answers. Currently I have my Netgear R7000 wired into a fiber ONT, vlan tagged 201, and am unable to get over ~500 mbps up or down. I can achieve upwards of 700up/800down with my CenturyLink provided router. I know that PPPoE has high overhead so I should really only expect between 8 and 9 each way. However it seems as though the WAN → LAN throughput of the R7000 is getting roughly half of that. It seems as though CTF is disabled and there is no hardware NAT acceleration on the R7000. I would rather not install 3rd party firmware and I don’t currently have an old machine to run a pfsense box. The R7000 is still covered (recent gift) by warranty so I could potentially swap it out for something more suited to the task. I’ve asked on several forums but still haven’t gad any concrete solutions. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
As you're most likely have to get some appilance anyway... pfsense box? (no need for a old pc) on the other hand... ubnt has some very high throughput routers =D
do they offer VLAN tagging? I've found it's not as common on a lot of home networking pieces. I'm really interested in a pfsense box. I just need wireless so the wife can stream to the chromecast. My Plex server and main desktops are all wired in.
Jup - edgrouters from ubnt do allow tagged v-lans - and I just checked PPoE both as client and server.
I have the nifty edge router lite; 3 gigabit ports and its rocking! Just now had to restart it after a uptime of a good halve a year to apply newest firmware ^^
there is the full line up - from lite with 3 ports up to pro with 8 ports + 2 SFP https://www.ubnt.com/products/#all/routing
That's awesome to hear. And at 50 bucks I could pick one up and set my R7000 as a straight AP. Could also look into selling the R7000 to pay for the edge and a UBNT AP. I spent a good 3 hours on netgear support last night and still got nowhere. I really hope I can get some full gigabit speeds.
I honestly can not confirm if it lives up to the advertisements and printed specs, as I do not have more than 20Mbit/s :(
But I assume, as its overall performance is stunning... it almost has no latency... non to speak of =)
It's super frustrating on this end to not know what will work with this internet speed. I've been a Comcast customer for the last several years with a 150Mbit/s connection and no problems. Now I all of a sudden am running into hardware limitations on something I assumed would be bulletproof. I guess it's a lesson learned. Don't get consumer grade high end, get low end enterprise grade equipment.
I thing UBNT isn't low end enterprise ... they are more the underdog biting the big ones arse ;)