On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote: >>
> > The next hop after the ISP supplied router is another piece of the ISPs > network equipment, so the ISP access to your data is equivalent, since the > geography is not important. I dont think Netgear is any less trustworthy > than TP-link or whatever. Here the trust is probably more about reliability > of the device than data privacy. Probably being too paranoid. The difference between Netgear and TP-link is not about which company is less trustworthy. The point is that the Netgear belongs to the ISP, wheras the TP-link belongs to me and its crappy firmware (crappy interface, at least) can be replaced by dd-wrt. > >> >> >> >> Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz >> WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. >> The power consumption is about 4.5w, which seems a bit flimsy. >> Or maybe the primary router is thottling speed when in bridge mode? Is >> this possible at all? (And if so, what could be the purpose of such >> measure? *spooky*) > > > Does ifconfig show any interface errors? > > You can probably setup PPPoA, or whatever is required, on your Gentoo box to > bring the service up instead of the TP-link, and test the bridge mode > throughput. This also means you can have maximum flexibility since Gentoo > will do all the interesting network stuff. However, unless you wanted to do > that as a learning exercise its probably a waste of time and effort. > > Does TPlink provide any performance stats? > I already found that the TP-Link router is the culprit, due to low processing power, Netgear is innocent. regards Jorge Almeida
