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Am Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:19:29 +0100 |
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schrieb Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>: |
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> I have net by cable with nominal speed 200Mbps. The ISP provides a |
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> modem/router Netgear (from Numericable). I disabled the WiFi and I |
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> have 2 computers connected via ethernet to the router. The speed is |
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> about 156Mbps (measured by http://www.speedtest.net), which seems to |
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> be what to expect. |
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> Now, having a device provided by the ISP to act as router seems to be |
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> good for people who trust both the ISP and the manufacturer. (Please |
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> comment if I'm being too paranoid.) |
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> So, I setup the router to work in bridge mode and connected one of the |
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> 4 lan ports to the Wan port of a secondary router TP-link (Archer |
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> C1200, Wireless dual band gigabit). It is supposed to comply with |
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> 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz and 802.11a/n/ac 5GHz. Not that this matters per |
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> se, as I disabled the WiFi. |
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> The point is: I connected the computers to the lan ports of my |
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> secondary router (with original firmware, but I intended to install |
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> ddwrt), and the setup works, except that the speed never reaches |
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> 100Mbps. |
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> Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz |
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> WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. |
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> The power consumption is about 4.5w, which seems a bit flimsy. |
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> Or maybe the primary router is thottling speed when in bridge mode? Is |
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> this possible at all? (And if so, what could be the purpose of such |
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> measure? *spooky*) |
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> Someone has a similar setup? Any experience with that (TP-link) |
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> router? |
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I'm using a 400 MBps cable link here, directly connected, I can get 48 |
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MBytes/s out of it (which should be very close if not even little above |
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400 MBps), even when using the TP-Link as switch. If I use bridge mode |
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and use TP-Link as router, it stop roughly around 300 MBps. My previous |
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router even stopped at 30 MBps. It's a CPU issue. The internal CPU |
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needs to do layer 3 routing. Layer 2 routing (switching) can be done by |
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hardware. Login to your router and see how the CPU is loaded. Use top. |
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If you still loaded it with its original hardware, you cannot do this, |
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tho. Try OpenWRT (that is what I used). |
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I think there's a database which contains throughput test results with |
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different router hardware and different firmware. However, with a quick |
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google search, I cannot find it. You may have more luck. |
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[some moments later] |
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I think it's here: |
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https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/180-lan-to-wan-tcp/31 |
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Regards, |
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Kai |
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