On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Andrew Mcgregor wrote:
The TP-Link Archer C7 seems quite nice, although I've only been playing with it less than 24 hours; my opernwrt build seems unable to send more than 100 Mbps over the ethernet, but the WiFi side is quite fast; I saw 270 Mbps of TCP sourced from iperf on the device, undoubtedly CPU limited.
This is generally the problem, that things are CPU limited, and the CPUs in these are not fast enough to move packets around faster than a few hundred megabits/s of large packets.
There are several gig capable boxes on the market, but they typically have hardware packet routing accelerators with proprietary management APIs that need special kernels and special "board support packages" that you only get access to after signing NDAs. Usually currently this means a Linux kernel 3.2 or 3.4 or around there, which means you're tied to a very old kernel limiting other features on the box such as virtualisation/containers etc.
But I still have hopes for a brighter future... -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
