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Netgear R7000 WAN Throughput
I am really interested in purchasing this router, but I have a concern that it can't handle a 1 Gbps connection. I recently got 1Gbps fiber and looking to purchase a router to handle that speed of a ...
- You may be interested in contacting the guy that posted this message on the ddwrt forum. He is claiming close to Gb speeds on stock. No idea of his setup or if he is using SPI or not.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=901721#901721
nexus024 wrote: I did read that from their test procedure, however they did say that SPI had little effect on throughput...
"But we have found that disabling SPI is simpler and in most cases does not affect router throughput."
I agree, I don't think that having the client in the DMZ and turning off SPI firewall is the difference between 600Mbps and over 900Mbps, either. The person who does the tests on smallnetbuilder is an expert at configuring routers, he's configured and tested 100's of them.
On the other hand, talking to people who actually are using this router on a Gb. connection is a good idea, too. But keep in mind that not everyone who configures a router gets it optimized.