talisman2208
Occasional Visitor
Trying to figure out which of these routers will do 10GB Wan in and Lan out, the ports are a bit confusing though. Any ideas?
Tell us what's your idea first. Home routers have 10Gbps ports, but Raspberry Pi hardware inside. RT-AX89X is a mostly failed attempt for high-end router. It's a 4-years old model with some firmware issues history. GT-AXE16000 is a "put inside everything you've got" model with one mostly useless radio and split 5GHz band in two. This is what Asus marketing calls "the world's first quad-band router" - something it actually isn't. It has RGB lights though.
I don't think it's entirely unecessary given my data usage
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Don't get me wrong - I agree with here on everything, I'm just a hobbyist, I like asus's GUI and I'd just prefer to stick with them.
Would something like open or pf or unifi or untangle be better, yes, will I see or utilize all the benefits they have? No, probably not.
True. Nbase-t isn't widely used even though it's been around for awhile now. It's something you still have to suss out a bit.Not all 10G stuff is backwards compatible to 5G and 2.5G
Nord is the only one I've been able to get line speed with using wireguard. Ovpn is the limiting factor for speed on anything gig+ as it will top out at 600mbps no matter the hardware.use VPN
Not really, you need quality peers with the bandwidth. If you get seeds that have the bandwidth it's possible. Tweaking the client settings filters out the low rent seeds and blocking the lackluster peers as you find them will speed things up.you'd need a lot of peers
Not really, you need quality peers with the bandwidth. If you get seeds that have the bandwidth it's possible. Tweaking the client settings filters out the low rent seeds and blocking the lackluster peers as you find them will speed things up.
A good test is to dl the ISO for Linux distros as you'll have higher end servers hosting the files that have the fat pipes to saturate most connections.
I limit my active connections to 50/file and overall connections to x*50 and purge the ones that just idle during transfers every 30s to make room for the ones that work at the best speeds. Also, have the tor client on the server itself that directly connects to the ISP and simply add them via the web GUI is years of a local client.
Well, if you locate yourself in scandanavia chances are you will get higher speeds. For all we know the op is streaming high quality 4k media. For top VPN speeds Nord is the best bet for server quality and bandwidth when not using a router off the shelf. I tested a few different providers awhile back and it was night and day in terms of speed.Anything good
Well, if you locate yourself in scandanavia chances are you will get higher speeds. For all we know the op is streaming high quality 4k media. For top VPN speeds Nord is the best bet for server quality and bandwidth when not using a router off the shelf. I tested a few different providers awhile back and it was night and day in terms of speed.
@drinkingbird
The only option is x86 at these speeds unless you want to drop 5 figures on a device that connects to the ISP.
Basic x86 at least keeps things competitive with a router off the shelf in terms of cost. However of you want to make it more than just that you can easily do that by building something custom. There's always the option to expand the setup to meet your wants vs buying new gear that is limited to a specific function. L3 switch wouldn't do a VPN easily unless you have a site to site option available outside of a commercial setup. Not even sure the switch CPU would be able to handle the encryption stress.
Either way though there's a million ways to skin the cat when it comes to designing things.
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