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Looking at everyday traffic, especially web traffic which i have so many of i noticed that most of the traffic dont use the full MTUs in internet from the device level. While normal downloading and streaming will take advantage of this i am seeing the bulk of my traffic on my WAN interface on average about 1000 bytes per packet on download. My upload traffic on average bytes per packet is ludicrously low in comparison to download.
I would like to suggest LAN-WAN and vice versa tests using 512 and 1024 byte packets a bit like what mikrotik does with their performance testing but mikrotik doesnt do NAT performance testing. True router performance is usually measured with packet rates as this helps to actually measure how much overhead when using vlans and PPPOE with internet connections. As some experts here seem quite surprised that many ISPs that provide gigabit/multi gigabit or fiber optic internet still use PPPOE.
Using PPPOE and VLANs does drop the MTU so a packet rate test would be more accurate as a speed measure. PPPOE+VLAN+NAT testing is actually quite easy to set up and perform as long as the test equipment is capable of wirespeed PPPOE (perhaps a high frequency dual/quad core router/server)?
For example if using 1500 byte packets you need less than 7000 packets to fill 1Gb/s but you will need 2 million 512 byte packets to fill 1Gb/s which gaming and services (like NTP, DNS, commands) tend to use.
I would like to suggest LAN-WAN and vice versa tests using 512 and 1024 byte packets a bit like what mikrotik does with their performance testing but mikrotik doesnt do NAT performance testing. True router performance is usually measured with packet rates as this helps to actually measure how much overhead when using vlans and PPPOE with internet connections. As some experts here seem quite surprised that many ISPs that provide gigabit/multi gigabit or fiber optic internet still use PPPOE.
Using PPPOE and VLANs does drop the MTU so a packet rate test would be more accurate as a speed measure. PPPOE+VLAN+NAT testing is actually quite easy to set up and perform as long as the test equipment is capable of wirespeed PPPOE (perhaps a high frequency dual/quad core router/server)?
For example if using 1500 byte packets you need less than 7000 packets to fill 1Gb/s but you will need 2 million 512 byte packets to fill 1Gb/s which gaming and services (like NTP, DNS, commands) tend to use.