On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:
Welcome to the world of teeny-weeny CPUs, mate.
That CPU is not going to route that much traffic. Put the machines on the same VLAN and let the switching hardware do the work.
Indeed, CPU makes a lot of difference. I've just purchased the Asus RT-N66U which has a beefy Broadcom processor (running TomatoUSB), and yet I am not putting my local LAN on it, I have a dedicated hardware gigabit switch that I use for my LAN, keeping the Modem and Router (which are also dedicated) to each do what they do best. On a good day, I can see around 800 Mbps, though ~700 Mbps is more common. A lot of networking equipment that are advertised as gigabit ethernet are really misleading. If you want a real router which can actually do gigabit ethernet you're looking at something like Dynatek's high-end range or Cisco stuff, and they start from $450. Cheaper to buy a dedicated switch and a good $200 router IMO. Cheers -- Aryan