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Low LAN and 5GHz WIFI speeds from RAXE500 Router?
Hello! I have a CM2000 modem that is supplying 1400+mps to a RAXE500 router. However, my wired LAN connection from the router to my 3 year old HP laptop tops out at 400-500mps? And my iPhone 12 ...
If the software needs to inspect the contents of each packet in real time, then often due to the nature of how the traffic is handled, it will use a single CPU core/ thread. Do to how thread scheduling is handled, often the only way to spot such bottlenecks, is to use an application such as process explorer, and look for threads that are using 1 thread worth of CPU time, basically do 100 divided by the number of threads the CPU has then see which threads are using that percentage of CPU time.
This can also be used to spot CPU bottlenecks for games where you may see frame time issues or poor GPU utilization and an overall low CPU usage. In many cases such behaviors are caused by a single thread within the application that cannot be handled asynchronously.
Anyway, if an AV application is causing a slowdown, then odds are likely that it is running into a single thread bottleneck.
With that in mind, for the router itself, the Armor service can still allow the router to hit 2-2.3Gbps over the 2.5GbE port for a TCP connection, without encountering a single thread bottleneck, though armor doesn't seem to fully analyze the contents of a packet, and instead focuses more on the L7 aspects, as well as more basic behaviors of the traffic to spot issues.
Razor512 I may re-enable Armor then and see how it goes? Not sure I can get any better than 900+mps outta my laptop without upgrading the LAN card? As it's 3 years old I may instead just upgrade to a newer laptop in a few months? I had to replace the battery in this one after only two years and unfortunately broke one of the hinges in the process, so it's kind of a pain to open and close now. I actually have two 26 inch monitors and wireless keyboard and mouse connected that I use it with. I don't use the laptop alone, or by itself much really, unless I travel or something.
But again, thanks for everyone's help on this problem of mine. We exhausted a lot of possibilities for sure. Learned a lot in the process, so thanks for all that knowledge!