Asus RT-N66U - Looking at retiring the old girl to handle Fiber

[mm2001]

I've been drooling over at the MicroTik site. They sure have a lot more gear now than when I bought their then shiny new first RouterBoard solution.

Does anyone know offhand if any of their cheaper devices will support LAN/WAN routing at something approaching 1GB ?

And/or can someone tell me how I should interpret their handy table at the bottom of each page? E.g. for the ~USD$100 https://routerboard.com/RB2011iL-IN. it says:

I haven't kept up with the details of packet routing. Can I assume that most packets will be 1518 bytes and thus 1220 Mbps will translate to WAN/LAN speeds that will handle 1GB, or is that just wildly optimistic (guessing that even in a simple config there are at least some ip filter rules too that will slow things down).

I see the https://routerboard.com/CCR1009-8G-1S-PC has almost 5x speeds for these -- at 5x the cost.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

(Meanwhile, off to Best Buy to swap my R7300 for an R7000... and just barely resisting the urge to try and decode all the DD-WRT etc. firmware options available for that...).

 

[mm2001]

> These are my top 2....

Dang it @alphamatter , now you've got me looking at the TP-Link Archer C7 for $100 less, but also Merlin software on Asus... Hmm... Nice choices to have...

> Ubiquiti

What are you reading that suggest 400 is more usual? I've read https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeM...irewall-performance-tests/m-p/1638994#M121916 and http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanw...ook-ubiquiti-edgerouter-lite?showall=&start=1. Guessing those are the 'specific case' you mention.