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WAN / LAN throughput on RBR750 when using PPPoE
I am looking at using an RBK753 on my home network, which is a kit consisting of an RBR750 router and 2 satelite nodes.
The house has 1Gbps down, 300 up, provided over fibre, which I access via a fibre modem, authenticating using PPPoE
In the past, I have struggled to find a router than can cope with the WAN/LAN throughput at these speeds when using PPPoE - often giving me only ~500Mbps down. Using openWRT on a raspberry Pi has given me the best solution so far.
However, I would ideally like to use the Orbi as my router and dispense with the pi.
There seem to be multiple threads discussing if the Orbi RBR750 can cope with gigabit WAN speeds. This post suggested yes, but was scant on detail:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Gigabit-PPPOE-fixed/m-p/2113037#M122680
Does anyone have a more definitive answer?
Cheers!
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The 7 series is supporing of near 900Mpbs on WAN to LAN configurations. Unsure about PPPoE as my ISP doesn't use that protocol. They use DHCP.
You migth give the 7 series a try and see for your self if it works for your ISP services. I presume it will.
Thanks - yes, looking at the various posts the bottleneck seems to come when using PPPoE. There is quite a lot of overhead to routing close to 1000 Mbps from WAN to LAN, and it seems some hw/fw combinations are not capable of doing that
Worst case I can return the kit after testing if it is a problem but it would be neater to find out beforer purchasing if threre will be a proiblem if at all possible :-)
Historically PPPoE connections have been problematic for users.
Yes, can definately try something out to see if it works.
