Build a router

[paulies]

Hi all

Just want a bit of advise, seen the routers we buy today are not powerful enough to max my vpn connection I was looking at an ultra cheap way to build one.*
This motherboardhttp://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov*is cheap but would it max out me connecting to my vpn provider ? I have checked out my vpn provider on my pc and it maxes the vpn with no problem so the vpn is quite capable.

Would this board work for my needs ?

Thanks Paul

 

[stevech]

Hi all

Just want a bit of advise, seen the routers we buy today are not powerful enough to max my vpn connection...
Thanks Paul

That's unlikely. What is speed requirement?

 

[paulies]

Hi

I have 100mbps, what speed approx do you think it could deliver?

 

[abailey]

Hi

I have 100mbps, what speed approx do you think it could deliver?

What type VPN do you plan to run (L2TP, OpenVPN, etc)?

 

[stevech]

I'd think that most any 1-2 year old design WiFi router can do 100Mbps from LAN / WAN.
You can read the router reviews on the main page of this website.

The VPN if using SSL/TLS may likely run slower, due to tunneling / encryption.

I'm assuming your 100Mbps is from an ISP rather than you trying to put a router on to an enterprise/school LAN.. that won't work.

 

[sinshiva]

that board is powerful enough.

soho dualcore ARM based routers top out at 50-60mbit openvpn throughput. single core MIPS based routers top out around like 20mbit with openvpn.

if security isn't a concern, pptp should hit much higher numbers. don't remember the numbers, myself

 

[theonlyski]

Hi all

Just want a bit of advise, seen the routers we buy today are not powerful enough to max my vpn connection I was looking at an ultra cheap way to build one.*
This motherboardhttp://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov*is cheap but would it max out me connecting to my vpn provider ? I have checked out my vpn provider on my pc and it maxes the vpn with no problem so the vpn is quite capable.

Would this board work for my needs ?

Thanks Paul

I've got a Sophos free firewall running on a virtual machine with 2 cores and I've been able to get line speed (minus overhead) thru it, with the IPS turned on, it goes down to about 300Mbps.

I would expect that board could handle 100Mbps.