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GS308EP - Can it handle gigabit fiber well? Or is there a better choice? Slow gig internet!!!
So, we just finally got fiber. Been using 4G cellular for a year. So, fiber is so much nicer, but still lackluster so far. When they installed the fiber, they installed this tiny fiber modem on th...
Yes, you can connect the T20 WAN/Internet port direct to the fiber box. Best guess, there is not just the fiber (which does the link form the ISP to the fiber box), but also a Gigabit copper Ethernet port for this purpose.
Avoid wildly mixing up WAN (with the public IP subnet) with the rest of the LAN. The only connection is the T20 which should be configured as the one-and-only NAT router, and having the RFC1918 private LAN IP on it's LAN side. From there you can connect to the switch, to the wireless AP, to a NAS, ... whatever.
In plain Firewall NAT routing, the T20 should be able to handle about 510 Mbit/s on mixed traffic, or up to 1.7 Gbit/s on UDP (more a theoretical value). The performance of the T20 will be much lower on operating VPN (something around 400 Mbit/s max), HTTPS with IPS enabled, or when you consider to keep up the Antivirus inspection on the T20.
Range extenders? Wireless range extenders? When it comes to performance this reads fishy at least. Tell us more if you want an estimate on the performance loss ...
There is goes your wonderful Gigabit fiber performance my friend.
It's certainly not the GS308EP, which does handle wire speed switching with ease.
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