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nexus024
Jun 18, 2014Tutor
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 ...
- Jun 20, 2014You 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
FlavioT
Dec 02, 2014Novice
I'm using a R7000 with a symmetrical 1 Gbps connection and get ~950 Mbps real world IPv4-NAT throughput: 
I have set "NAT Filtering" to "Open", maybe that disabled the SPI Firewall. DMZ is not necessary to get these speeds.

I have set "NAT Filtering" to "Open", maybe that disabled the SPI Firewall. DMZ is not necessary to get these speeds.