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giga routers total throughput ?

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If you don't care about the electricity costs, I would assume a PC router would be the best solution. Just get 2 gigabit Ethernet ports and plug one as wan and the other into a gigabit switch.

I don't know how to do the software side of this though, and would like guidance as to whether this would be possible in just Windows without having to resorting to *nix?
 
Communism said:
If you don't care about the electricity costs, I would assume a PC router would be the best solution. Just get 2 gigabit Ethernet ports and plug one as wan and the other into a gigabit switch.

I don't know how to do the software side of this though, and would like guidance as to whether this would be possible in just Windows without having to resorting to *nix?
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I suppose it is possible, but, why bother with windows, when there are linux builds of firewalls & routing available ? I mean, the only job of that machine is to do 1 (router) or 2 (firewall) things... it most likely will be headless as well.

The biggest problem in making your own is, the noise + electricity cost, and depending if you shop for new hardware, that as well.
The cheapest 'all in one' that has dual gigabit LAN ports is around $230 for a atom based system. Then you need OS, HD/SSD, RAM, maybe a power supply. In the end, it just isn't worth the cost.
 
Elixer said:
I suppose it is possible, but, why bother with windows, when there are linux builds of firewalls & routing available ? I mean, the only job of that machine is to do 1 (router) or 2 (firewall) things... it most likely will be headless as well.

The biggest problem in making your own is, the noise + electricity cost, and depending if you shop for new hardware, that as well.
The cheapest 'all in one' that has dual gigabit LAN ports is around $230 for a atom based system. Then you need OS, HD/SSD, RAM, maybe a power supply. In the end, it just isn't worth the cost.
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Just use your old, deprecated desktop for the task. Use your old laptop if you have an express-card slot and care about power consumption etc.

The problem with all network hardware other than dumb switches is that they get overloaded far too easily. Core 2 Duo should be plenty up to the task normally handled by a 500 mhz arm11 chip :O

Not using Linux is because you are doing this specifically to not have any arbitrary limitations on anything, period. You're doing this to have a set it and forget it system that you maybe restart every month for patch Tuesday if you even care, not have to troubleshoot ever.
 
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Elixer said:
I suppose it is possible, but, why bother with windows, when there are linux builds of firewalls & routing available ? I mean, the only job of that machine is to do 1 (router) or 2 (firewall) things... it most likely will be headless as well.

The biggest problem in making your own is, the noise + electricity cost, and depending if you shop for new hardware, that as well.
The cheapest 'all in one' that has dual gigabit LAN ports is around $230 for a atom based system. Then you need OS, HD/SSD, RAM, maybe a power supply. In the end, it just isn't worth the cost.
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How many "consumer" routers have fully configurable firewall rules, IDS, IPS, multiple WANs, failover and basically every feature under the sun?
 
Ayah said:
How many "consumer" routers have fully configurable firewall rules, IDS, IPS, multiple WANs, failover and basically every feature under the sun?
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Dunno why this is directed at me ?
What part of what you quoted makes you think I am against running your own home brew router/firewall ?
 
This thread got me thinking so I looked at the old networking equipment running the show int he basement. Saw WRT54G v4 and immediately noticed that my WAN throughput is only around 22Mbps. Since I'm not paying for the internet I always just assumed it was a 20Mbps connection and I was getting 2Mbps extra just because. Perhaps I need to upgrade the router and see what my speeds turn into.

It does seem like I get periods of decent latency, but horrid performance in Multiplayer games. Could this be the cause? I have 4 PC's, and 2 phones almost always connected to the router even if they are not transmitting anything.
 
When I need to know if my router is slow I remove it and go directly to the moden during the worst time of the day.
when I played ut online in 2005 I would always do a speed test before going on line.
Since I now have a Cisco DOCSIS 3.0 my speed is limited to 31m and I get 35m most of the time.
 
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