How many simultaneous WIRED connections on NetGear R6700v3?

[MHCLV941]

How many simultaneous WIRED connections will a Nighthawk AC1750/R6700v3 support?   Wi-Fi is disabled so there are no wireless connections.  

I have found an article that says the device should handle 35 wireless connections, but it is mum about wired connections.

thank you!

[schumaku · Accepted solution]

Undoubtedly, the number of concurrent NAT sessions is limited ,- before the garbage collection does jump in.

Unfortunately, Netgear does not provide any specs on this subject, neither for their consumer routers nor for what is offered into the SMB market.

At some point, previously established NAT sessions will be closed for saving resources.

Looks like Netgear shareholders do see this as a trade secret - not worth to be documented. Needless to say: This isn't connection (LAN vsm Wi-Fi) related.

[microchip8]

In the hundereds, assuming your DHCP pool is wide enough if each one of it needs an IP.

[MHCLV941]

With all due respect, I doubt seriously that the only limitation is the number of addresses in the DHCP pool and/or assigned via DHCP reservation and/or hard-assigned on individual devices.  The machines have more to do than simply request an address via DHCP.

Do you have any more realistic numbers, ideally backed up with some documentation or other authoritative source?

[microchip8]

I've ran in the past a t0rrent tracker on an NG router (R7800 if you must know) which could handle a couple of thousand connections. Granted, it's not physical LAN connections, but there's little difference between a plain LAN connection and a remote connection from outside.

I don't know of any docs from NG that talk about the amount of connections a model can handle. I only mentioned DHCP because that's usually the limiting factor, unless you change things and don't stick to default.

[schumaku · Accepted solution]

Undoubtedly, the number of concurrent NAT sessions is limited ,- before the garbage collection does jump in.

Unfortunately, Netgear does not provide any specs on this subject, neither for their consumer routers nor for what is offered into the SMB market.

At some point, previously established NAT sessions will be closed for saving resources.

Looks like Netgear shareholders do see this as a trade secret - not worth to be documented. Needless to say: This isn't connection (LAN vsm Wi-Fi) related.