Please go easy on me. I'm going to make a few school boy errors on this thread, I'm sure.
So I'm signing up for fttp 900 and in the market for a router. This all started when I found out that the bt smart hub 2 was dns restricted, so started looking into a few other specs for a 900mb connection.
In short, I cannot find another router that can handle a 900mb+ service without some compromises. Wan throughput at this range seems to have some caveats. Here is a list of the things that stood out for me. No particular order.
I started looking a 1gb vs 2.5gb wan port (not much of a biggy, a bit of future poofing would be nice, seeing that I'm on the cusp)
VPN ssl throughput. Nice to have. Even powerful routers max out 300mb (I can see myself using more of this feature set but I suppose I could set up this function from the user device side of things, making it a pain.)
Nat/firewall throughput (really important but what am I missing?)
Now the nat throughput has got me scratching my head. I don't get it. Draytek state that the 2962 (£410) shares 2.4gb nat throughput between 2 wan ports and doesn't seem to use hw acceleration. The next model down (2927 @£280) has 1.8 gb shared so 950mb per port. This IS hardware accelerated and bypasses the cpu. 800mb without HW acceleration. Now there seems are plenty of mid tier routers that are capable of download wan speeds of 900mb+ (im assuming the bt hub 2 is one of them).
So another way to put it is, how are these cheaper routers achieving 900mb+ wan with nat/firewall? When some more expensive routers cannot? Fitzbox 4060, tp link ER707-M2 were contenders until I saw their throughput (these also had 2.5gb wan)
it just seems the draytek 2962 ticks the boxes but others that reveal their throughput are woefully short to cover a 900mb connection and a lot of other manufacturers dont bother to disclose their wan firewall stats.
Should I even be concerned at all with nat/firewall throughput? Where am I going wrong?
So I'm signing up for fttp 900 and in the market for a router. This all started when I found out that the bt smart hub 2 was dns restricted, so started looking into a few other specs for a 900mb connection.
In short, I cannot find another router that can handle a 900mb+ service without some compromises. Wan throughput at this range seems to have some caveats. Here is a list of the things that stood out for me. No particular order.
I started looking a 1gb vs 2.5gb wan port (not much of a biggy, a bit of future poofing would be nice, seeing that I'm on the cusp)
VPN ssl throughput. Nice to have. Even powerful routers max out 300mb (I can see myself using more of this feature set but I suppose I could set up this function from the user device side of things, making it a pain.)
Nat/firewall throughput (really important but what am I missing?)
Now the nat throughput has got me scratching my head. I don't get it. Draytek state that the 2962 (£410) shares 2.4gb nat throughput between 2 wan ports and doesn't seem to use hw acceleration. The next model down (2927 @£280) has 1.8 gb shared so 950mb per port. This IS hardware accelerated and bypasses the cpu. 800mb without HW acceleration. Now there seems are plenty of mid tier routers that are capable of download wan speeds of 900mb+ (im assuming the bt hub 2 is one of them).
So another way to put it is, how are these cheaper routers achieving 900mb+ wan with nat/firewall? When some more expensive routers cannot? Fitzbox 4060, tp link ER707-M2 were contenders until I saw their throughput (these also had 2.5gb wan)
it just seems the draytek 2962 ticks the boxes but others that reveal their throughput are woefully short to cover a 900mb connection and a lot of other manufacturers dont bother to disclose their wan firewall stats.
Should I even be concerned at all with nat/firewall throughput? Where am I going wrong?
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