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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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The next hop after the ISP supplied router is another piece of the ISPs |
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network equipment, so the ISP access to your data is equivalent, since the |
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geography is not important. I dont think Netgear is any less trustworthy |
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than TP-link or whatever. Here the trust is probably more about reliability |
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of the device than data privacy. Probably 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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Ok so i think you've downgraded your performance without any real change in |
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security. |
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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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Does ifconfig show any interface errors? |
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You can probably setup PPPoA, or whatever is required, on your Gentoo box |
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to bring the service up instead of the TP-link, and test the bridge mode |
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throughput. This also means you can have maximum flexibility since Gentoo |
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will do all the interesting network stuff. However, unless you wanted to do |
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that as a learning exercise its probably a waste of time and effort. |
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Does TPlink provide any performance stats? |
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