Wired ubiquity Edgerouter or Netgear nighthawk

runningroach

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Here in HK, we have 1Gbps broadband and on my current router (n66u) i can only get about 4-500 mbps (stable - dual way).

I was wondering if it is better to get a netgear nighthawk (as it has high wan to lan and lan to wan) or a ubiquity edge router lite which is slower (~800) but is a data centre quality router...

I just want to have a constant reliable speed (even 800 would be good) which i just am not getting with the r66u.
 
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The netgear has a extra chip they say that supports NAT in hardware which is part of the reason it runs faster.

Pretty much it is the raw clock speed of the processor that will dictate the total though put. You also have to be careful how you measure, network measurements include all the packet overhead where file transfers only look at the useful data part. Most times this means you can only get about 800mbit (data rates) and many times you must use jumbo frames which are not supported on the internet.

I suspect this is mostly a academic question anyway. Most sites cap the download speeds they allow. If some site had a 10g connection and 10 users that have 1g connections could use it all then the thousands of other customer...
The netgear has a extra chip they say that supports NAT in hardware which is part of the reason it runs faster.

Pretty much it is the raw clock speed of the processor that will dictate the total though put. You also have to be careful how you measure, network measurements include all the packet overhead where file transfers only look at the useful data part. Most times this means you can only get about 800mbit (data rates) and many times you must use jumbo frames which are not supported on the internet.

I suspect this is mostly a academic question anyway. Most sites cap the download speeds they allow. If some site had a 10g connection and 10 users that have 1g connections could use it all then the thousands of other customer would get nothing.

The ISP also tend to cap the rates if you abuse it too much....they likely will not tell you but you will find things like torrent all the sudden are running much slower.
 
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