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Home router upgrade
I'm looking for a bit of help and advice I am looking to upgrade my router to something new and faster, I'm soon to be upgrading with my ISP to 1100Mbps down I'm looking for something what will get m...
Look at the RAX120 and RAX200. The former is Qualcomm-based, the latter Broadcom one. Pick your poison.
Currently have the R8000 I have had it for several years now and think it's time to retire it now, I have been looking in to the RAX120. I have seen with head room on the wan port to expect 850mbps to 950 ish Mbps is this correct or will I get closer to the 1gb speeds ?
The RAX should not have a problem hitting close to 1 Gbps speed. Even my R7800 doesn't have a problem
Think im going to going to order the RAX120 as I no of issues with RAX200 chipset and WiFi 6
I will also go for the RAX120. Most Qualcomm-based routers I've encountered to this day tend to run more stable and give a better, more balanced performance than Broadcom ones. Qualcomm also uses OpenWrt as its SDK and NETGEAR slaps its own UI on top of it with under the hood modifications. Broadcom has its own SDK and it's a mess, though they've gotten better lately
Oh, and Qualcomm has true hardware accelerations (called NSS - Network SubSystem, dedicated cores for network offload) whereas Broadcom relies on CTF (cut through forwarding) that gets disabled the moment something needs to inspect packets first for some reason