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Router recommendations? (under 100CAD)
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In my experience, exactly 1Gbps. It has 1Gbps network ports, and it maintains that throughput even with "advanced buffer management" / etc enabled.
I'm sure it slows own if you have thousands of people using it, but OP isn't planning to do that and anyone who is should buy one with more than four LAN ports anyway. This is a $60 router. If you're working with thousands of people, you should spend more than that.
It slows down when using CPU-heavy features, even with a single user, because the CPU isn't very fast. You can find multiple confirmations of this if you read through the community forum posts from the first couple years after it was released.
This doesn't matter for things that can be offloaded, though, like basic routing and NAT. To be clear, it is an excellent value.
It'll likely be like most routers I've seen. If hardware offloading is possible it'll have cpu to spare at 1gbps. If it isn't (mostly qos or other packet marking processes), then the cpu will get maxed and thruput drops.