On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/28/2017 01:19 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> The point is: I connected the computers to the lan ports of my >> secondary router (with original firmware, but I intended to install >> ddwrt), and the setup works, except that the speed never reaches >> 100Mbps. > > This is not unusual, the speeds they advertise are device to device > (i.e. switched, not routed.)
That explains it, then. Misleading publicity... I should have asked here before buying... > >> >> > > As Mick mentioned, a lot of the all-in-ones don't have enough CPU > available to route at those speeds. Some of them do come with hardware > offloading, thus taking it off the main CPU but that itself doesn't mean > it is able to route at port speed. > > I have the same problem, I had an old RT-N16. It finally crapped out and I've been using an RT-N16 for years, and it still works fine. They don't advertise big speeds and I understood it doesn't have the CPU power to cope. I assumed a new generation router would do the job. Big mistake. I already checked that the ISP/Netgear router is not to blame: connecting to a single computer in bridge mode yields about 150Mbps. Thanks Jorge PS. I still would like to know what people in this list think about having an ISP managed device as router, re security. Not that I have any real option if I want the contracted speed...
