Hi Rohan, On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 07:52:29PM +1100, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Robin Humble via luv-main wrote:
my venerable linksys wrt54gs running openwrt is still going strong, but probably can't handle NBN 100 Mbit even on lobotomised HFC, so I guess it's time for a new router... you mention "NBN 100 Mbit" so fibre-to-the-node/ house ?
sadly, no. HFC == rehashed Foxtel cable. very jealous that you had fibre. it was futile to try and talk the installer folks into stringing fibre instead of new coax from the street (this house hasn't had foxtel before) but I tried anyway. no luck of course... good one Malcolm. I believe next they'll install a NBN box inside that translates the coax into 100/1000 ethernet, so yup as you say, no ADSL functionality is needed any more. my old wrt54gs router only does ethernet and wifi. it's currently behind a ADSL router box that is only doing physical DSL to ethernet, and in front of another crappy iinet router box that's only doing ATA and SIP etc. to landline phone. I trust both of these other boxes only as much as I have to... :-/ I believe my wrt54gs would plug in to the NBN and work ok, but from what I've read its cpu is just too wimpy to do iptables routing at 100 Mbit speed, so it would be a bottleneck for all our gige wired machines. hence need a new router... cheers, robin