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  • Which is faster, your system or router

    From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Mon Jul 19 15:29:28 2021
    Which is faster, your system or router.
    You might want to check.

    I bought a faster internet service, 500 down.
    Installed a TP-link router between modem and system.
    https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
    showed ~90 down.

    Powered off modem for 1 minute, connected system
    and got ~300. Returned router to store.

    Called Frontier FIOS support. Tech showed me a
    speed test in the modem and I got the 500 down/up.

    # ethtool $_net_nic | egrep "Speed|Duplex|detected"
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Link detected: yes

    Guess I need a faster cpu.
    Athlon II X4 635 (P) 2.9 GHz (95W) 4000 MHz
    HyperTransport 3.0 Socket AM3

    $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
    2900000
    2900000
    2900000
    2900000


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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Tue Jul 20 12:55:06 2021
    On 7/19/21 10:29 AM, Bit Twister wrote:
    Guess I need a faster cpu.
    Athlon II X4 635 (P) 2.9 GHz (95W) 4000 MHz
    HyperTransport 3.0 Socket AM3

    And you might need a faster motherboard and faster RAM to go with it.

    Remember, during a speed test you're pretty much doing nothing but communicating with the router/ISP. Real-world usage, you have to share
    cpu, RAM, motherboard, and associated components with the router and any background processing you might be doing.

    TJ

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Tue Jul 20 13:11:38 2021
    On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:55:06 -0400, TJ wrote:
    On 7/19/21 10:29 AM, Bit Twister wrote:
    Guess I need a faster cpu.
    Athlon II X4 635 (P) 2.9 GHz (95W) 4000 MHz
    HyperTransport 3.0 Socket AM3

    And you might need a faster motherboard and faster RAM to go with it.

    Remember, during a speed test you're pretty much doing nothing but communicating with the router/ISP. Real-world usage, you have to share
    cpu, RAM, motherboard, and associated components with the router and any background processing you might be doing.


    Very true. I even ran shorewall clear just to see if disabling it would help.

    Main point I wanted to make was the router was the main bottleneck.

    Fios support teck wanted me to believe their router was splitting
    bandwidth with my router and my voip to analog adapter (phone).

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