Nighthawk r8000 with gigabit internet

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lesyriad wrote:

Yes and I agree with everything you said there and overhead is the bottle neck.  And when I say speedtest shows 1Gbps I mean I get 900Mbps-950Mbps as Im account for the overhead.  So internal lan computer-computer file copy I get ~110-115MB/sec or 880-920Mbps or basicly my 1Gbps.  When I connect my computer directly to the modem and run multiple speed tests I get ~850Mbps-950Mbps (and Im not just talking about my ISP's provided speedtest I do tests with various hosts and tests where I make multiple connection to different servers to fully saturate the line), and I consider that 1Gbps because of obvious overhead, collisions, etc.  Now it goes to show that the bottleneck of my network is the nighthawk x6 router.  SO its not a question of why cant I get full 1Gbps its a question of WHY is my WAN port of the router the bottleneck.  What overhead is it adding that is making me loose more than 50% of my what I have shown should be possible.  Disabling every feature of the x6 that should be adding more overhead and even trying to DMZ a computer (router should pass traffic through without much overhead) shows no improvement.  50% is not an acceptable drop for overhead.  I would be willing to accept ~700Mbps with basic services running (nat, block ping)  but even with all those services off there is no increase.  I have never seen speeds pass 450Mbps through the wan into the lan over the router.  So what is causing this 50% drop,  what overhead?  At this point I'm half tempted to take one of my computers throw a few 1Gbps/cards in it and make it the router and the x6 an AP to see if that eliminates the bottleneck.

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You can run pfsense on the laptop. or, look at Ubiquity PoE5, ERL3, or ERX(or ERX-SFP).  I sold all my NG hardware.