Re: [tlug] [OT] Home Internet router reccomendations

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

On 10/13/2009 12:58 PM, Edward Middleton wrote:
> Kyle Hasegawa wrote:
>    
> > I went with a Linksys WRT310N because it was one of the only wireless N
> > gigabit routers to fully support DD-WRT.  Besides the requirements you
> > mention, DD-WRT adds a ton of other geeky features like OpenVPN, SSH,
> > and DNS servers as well as traffic shaping and logging.
> >
> >      
> Whats the performance like? Running an earlier MIPS linksys routers with
> OpenWRT I was loosing something like 30% throughput compared to a PIII
> celeron PC running Linux.
>
> Edward
>    

It's actually very good.  I was able to break 100Mbps down a few times 
on OCN hikari http://twitpic.com/aqojr
Prior to this router I was using PFsense in a VM using 1 core of a core2 
duo 2GHz which was consistently slower according to speedtest.net but 
this could be attributable to VM overhead.

Kyle