On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome to the world of teeny-weeny CPUs, mate. > > That CPU is not going to route that much traffic. Put the machines on > the same VLAN and let the switching hardware do the work.
Indeed, CPU makes a lot of difference. I've just purchased the Asus RT-N66U which has a beefy Broadcom processor (running TomatoUSB), and yet I am not putting my local LAN on it, I have a dedicated hardware gigabit switch that I use for my LAN, keeping the Modem and Router (which are also dedicated) to each do what they do best. On a good day, I can see around 800 Mbps, though ~700 Mbps is more common. A lot of networking equipment that are advertised as gigabit ethernet are really misleading. If you want a real router which can actually do gigabit ethernet you're looking at something like Dynatek's high-end range or Cisco stuff, and they start from $450. Cheaper to buy a dedicated switch and a good $200 router IMO. Cheers -- Aryan _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
