What's the point of a Gigabyte router?

100Mbit speed. If your internet connection is truly 1 gigabit and your hardware supported gigabit then you'd see near 1000Mb/s in that test.
 
But I also ran straight from the fiber optic modem to my motherboard which supports a gigabit connection...

I have a 1000Mbps connection as listed here: HKBN

So what's bottlenecking me? My motherboard supports 1000Mbps too.
 
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I have the Biostar TP67XE which has a 1 GB port.

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The tech guy did some fancy stuff where I'm not using a direct connection, but where it's connected from the living room mains to the bedroom mains. :O

Will try a direct cable connection now...
 
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So you're using powerline, this will be seriously hampering your connection.

Use a network cable instead of powerline
 
Just tried using a Cat 5e cable and still the same 95Mb connection.

Modem was supplied by the ISP, yes.
 
It does sound like you're using powerlines. Any chance you can move the PC to the same room as the modem and directly connect to it, just to see what you get? As the powerlines themselves could be 100mb only...
 
Unbelievable!

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Just moved everything from my bedroom to the living room, 6AM, not slept yet and have just had my eyes opened.

Thank you so much!
 
Unfortunately (or not, I guess it depends how you look at it) there are very few devices suitable for use as a home gateway that can serve a true gigabit connection with any sort of security features in place. 'Proper' firewalls that can serve that sort of connection start at around the £2000 mark.

Hopefully the spread of gigabit connectivity and an uptake in IPv6 which will remove NAT will see developments in this area and bring the costs down for everyone.
 
Looks like it is the powerlines capping you. I would suggest hunting around for a nice long ethernet cable (5e will do) if you want it in another room, otherwise limiting yourself to a 10th of your speed seems silly.

Would love to see those speeds in the UK... it's even more of a plus seeing it's 1:1 between the download and upload. Share please :p.
 
You can get gigabit in London, hyperoptic..

Plenty of people on here seem to have routers that work with it..
 
The bundled router for Hyperopic tops out at the mid 900-Mbps mark, and that's just doing NAT, which isn't difficult. When IPv6 stops people being able to hide behind NAT then that's where the firewalls will be required, and a device that costs under £200 doesn't exist yet.
 
I guess like a lot of things once the requirement to have stuff that performs at that level becomes more prevalent costs should come down.

I'm ignorant to how much a 1Gbps firewall costs but know how much a 1Gbps IPS will set you back and it's not exactly home use prices!
 
It would be nice if faster services moved the firewall into the ISPs network and the CPE was a dumb layer 3 device with an access point built in.
 
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It would be nice if faster services moved the firewall into the ISPs network and the CPE was a dumb layer 3 device with an access point built in.
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I think some providers have "sort of" done this already. With my Plusnet control panel I can choose whether to block all incoming TCP/UDP connections, only allow some (on a limited set of ports - can't remember whicH) or block nothing - leaving it up to my own firewall what to deny or allow.

Whether that'll be possible with many users at higher speeds remains to be seen!
 
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It would be nice if faster services moved the firewall into the ISPs network and the CPE was a dumb layer 3 device with an access point built in.
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Depends on the requirement.. but as you mentioned CPE, then we should be referring to "managed" enterprise edge devices for site to site reach-ability. Ultimately.. it depends on the applications sitting in the site that determines what CPE device should be used. Data Center type sites which are heavy on serving business critical applications would normally have a next-generation application firewall with deep packet inspection, application filtering, IPS and DDoS mitigation built-in such as the Palo-Alto FW, these come with 10G/40G line rate options. But the device and the licenses for these features are expensive.

However, There are cheaper options for connecting remote client sites which use 3g/4g options for quick mobile deployments, or business broadband for DMVPN type deployments for MPLS site to site connectivity (support for IPv4 and IPv6). These devices cost between 100 - 200 pounds on fleebay used, and if you know what you are doing, then you would be able to configure the device to support all the security features you may need for cheap, VPN's included. Bear in mind, The more security features you enable, the more stress you put on CPU utilization, then the slower data transfer through-put would be. These device are normally 8 x 1g ports which support LACP.

All in all, It really depends on the requirement and budget.
 
That's a big thread resurrection to essentially read too much into the CPE acronym. I wasn't referring to a managed enterprise service, just that there's not a huge amount of point in trying to make firewalls capable of providing real security to a 500Mbps+ connection cheap enough to give away, when the ISP can provide them from a virtual platform with all the scalability and resiliency benefits of the cloud and the cost savings because they are really unlikely to need to provide the full throughput to every customer at once.

There's no reason for the security element to live in the customers house, unless they specifically want to, in which case give the customer the option. The advantage of turning the Home Hub or whatever into a device a bit like a lightweight AP is that all the config can be handled from the ISPs control panel so you won't need to back it up, someone else can manage it for you etc.
 
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