Wow, great recommendations. I come from using really old routers with tomato firmware. What is the practical benefit I should see with a higher tier CPU in the router?
It has a dual core 1.8 GHZ CPU, 512 RAM and 256 MB flash storage. The practical benefit of using a higher tier CPU in the router is same like having a higher tier CPU in any computing device
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Manufacturers of wireless routers don't tell you this, but the hardware inside your router matters a lot, especially the processor and the quantity of RAM. Smart homes have many devices that require wireless connectivity. Now we do a lot of video streaming, online gaming and other activities during which lots of data is transferred through the network. To cope with everything, wireless routers need a lot more processing power than they used to.
When choosing a wireless router, you must know whether it has a single-core, dual-core, or quad-core processor and its operating frequency. Naturally, a dual-core processor can deal with more data and more clients than a single-core processor. Also, a processor running at 900 MHz is less powerful than one at 1.2 GHz. The same rules apply as is the case with computers, smartphones, and other computing devices.
When buying a wireless router, the processor should not be lower than a single-core running at 800MHz. For modern standards, this is the minimum required to deal with the load you get in a small smart-home. If you could afford to buy a router with a dual-core or quad-core (usually reserved for expensive routers) processor, the better.
Also, your router should not have less than 128MB of RAM. This is to make sure that it can process everything as fast as possible. If money is not a big issue, you should seek for a wireless router with 256MB of RAM or more.
Hope it answers your question
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