WAN-LAN throughput Improvements on Newer Routers
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 3:27 am
My first post here and I want to say thanks to everyone involved in creating Gargoyle. Been using it for close to 2 years on a WD 750 router using Gargoyle 1.9.1.
I'm hitting the "WAN-LAN throughput hardware enhanced speed barrier" that is a known (and well complained about fact of life for open source router firmware!) issue and the best WAN-LAN throughput I can get using my existing hardware (which is around 5 years old now) is close to 100 Mbps.
I've read up and it looks like improving WAN-LAN throughput is all dependent on the CPU of the router (since open-source firmware cannot use any hardware acceleration).
I believe the WD 750 has a 560 Mhz processor (via the OpenWRT Wiki) and I'm looking at flashing a Linksys WRT AC1200 which looks like it is a much more powerful model.
Before I go through the trouble, I wanted to see if it is correct that I should be able to get faster WAN-LAN throughput with this new model?
Also, would I be able to simply export and import my configuration to the new Router (have a ton of configuration I would like to keep).
Sorry for the long post, thanks so much in advance for any help, advice, and recommendations!
~Mike
I'm hitting the "WAN-LAN throughput hardware enhanced speed barrier" that is a known (and well complained about fact of life for open source router firmware!) issue and the best WAN-LAN throughput I can get using my existing hardware (which is around 5 years old now) is close to 100 Mbps.
I've read up and it looks like improving WAN-LAN throughput is all dependent on the CPU of the router (since open-source firmware cannot use any hardware acceleration).
I believe the WD 750 has a 560 Mhz processor (via the OpenWRT Wiki) and I'm looking at flashing a Linksys WRT AC1200 which looks like it is a much more powerful model.
Before I go through the trouble, I wanted to see if it is correct that I should be able to get faster WAN-LAN throughput with this new model?
Also, would I be able to simply export and import my configuration to the new Router (have a ton of configuration I would like to keep).
Sorry for the long post, thanks so much in advance for any help, advice, and recommendations!
~Mike