Re: 10mbit fiber to home; NAT router can't fill pipe

Steve wrote:
> Possibly the new pre-n or eventual 802.11n routers will have beefier
> processors. The issue is needing the CPU sort of at level 3 to examine
> all the packets, DMZ or not. Everybody has a chip to handle the level 2
> at wire speed. But for the NAT, which is sort of level 3, you need more
> CPU and more memory. Maybe those gamer lounge routers are battle
> tested.
>
> Thanks for those suggestions. The Netgear 240
> http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2006/01/17/review_wpnt834/ seems like a
> candidate too (for its wired, not its wireless, from my point of view).
> But I agree that a few throughput tests are not the same as a big p2p
> load.
>
> For now I just took the server machine and plugged it straight into the
> FTTH, then hung my old network (just for web surfing), through ICS, off
> the back of the XP server.
>
> I suspect they're throttling me a bit now, so its hard to gauge the
> results.
>
Would something like a Cisco 1605 (dual 10mb ethernet router) handle the
10mb he is looking for? I also need to know as I am considering it for a
lesser DSL connection of 4mb/s that I would like to not have a
bottleneck for.
Received on Mon May 1 00:57:19 2006