> On Nov 4, 2017, at 13:15, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > >> On 2017-11-04, Peter Faiman <peterfai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thank you for this explanation. My uplink is only 240mbit and my APU2 >> handles that perfectly, so I’m not having any of these problems. >> But the insight into the current state of networking was great! :) > > But it doesn't handle 240Mbit/s, *unless* the packets are large. > > If somebody sends 240Mb/s of minimal sized packets at you, it won't cope.
Probably. I’ve never tried, it’s a home router so I only use that kind of bandwidth for stream connections. At full download it’s got two cores at about 45%, which is consistent with what you said about core separation of tasks, and maximum speed.