Consumer routers that can handle thousands of connections?

PiKe · 11 Feb 2019 at 21:27

Purely for research purposes, is there any off the shelf kit up to the job?

Caged · 11 Feb 2019 at 21:47

There might be, the problem is that the target market isn't interested and so the numbers aren't generally published.

SmallNetBuilder's charts have some of the detail in, but it doesn't look like they run that test on every device they have in https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/77-max-simul-conn/17

PiKe · 11 Feb 2019 at 23:59

I would guess there is a relationship between CPU speed and the max connections judging by that chart.

Sin_Chase · 12 Feb 2019 at 00:17

There is plenty of reasonable priced small business stuff that trying to use consumer kit for this is pointless.

Even if its quick enough, how's long until it falls over and needs rebooting.

PiKe · 12 Feb 2019 at 14:43

Ran a quick test on a draytek I had lying around and it managed 31900 connections before winsock errored out?

Rroff · 12 Feb 2019 at 14:50

I dunno if it actually accomplishes anything but with custom firmware the Asus routers allow you to increase the max tracked connections from 30K to 300K - no idea how many connections they can actually handle though.

PiKe · 12 Feb 2019 at 21:49

Thrown a Draytek 2830 in with an Openreach modem and it seems a lot more responsive now, the product page actually advertises up to 50,000 NAT sessions.