Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:00 Post subject: Smoothwall to dd-wrt...
Well I made the switch today from smoothwall that I had installed on a hard drive to dd-wrt which is installed on a 1GB CF card (overkill I know).
The computer itself is a 2.4 ghz pentium 4. I have a 30 mbit cable connection and with smoothwall I'd even get up to 34 megabits with local sites. Now with dd-wrt I'm not getting anything above 25 mbits. What are your opinions? Am I just being crazy or is there some factors that would be slowing the throughput?
Hmm... with that computer even 100/100 connection should be easy as pie...
All I can think of is some bad NIC in the computer, but then it should be same with both smoothwall and dd-wrt... Well ofcourse you should look that your internet settings really are correct, wrong MTU-value can make weird things, usually it is 1500, but for example PPPoE requires it to be 1492 or so...
By the way, is there a graph or something that shows the relation of x amount of cpu power to x amount of throughput?
Not really... You could still find some old test results somewhere deep in this forum, but main problem for such graph is that one would get very diffirent results from 500MHz P2 than 500MHz P3... Altough even those CPU speeds is more than enough for 100/100 internet and who knows how fast those will already route... Also memory speed affecs too... There are no single reference point that can be measured...
Well the reason why I switched to a pc for my router was that my WRT54G with a cpu of 216 mhz couldn't give me any more than 12-15 megabits of throughput. I think it's safe to say though that the cpu in the router has very different architecture to a pentium cpu.
