Solve : Routers - Performance Question?

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Answer» I was looking at a router online for sale that claims to give optimum performance for gamers. Question I have is.... is there any real performance benefit between say a Linksys BEFSR41 Router and a more modern gaming router such as this model? http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/gaming-router/the-difference It was my assumption that if you have a broadband connection of say 5mbps download and 1mbps upload that it wont make a difference, and for the fact that the Linksys BEFSR41 is 100mb/s, both routers should perform the same with ISP bandwidth of 100mb/s or less. However, they state that there is Traffic Shaping and Stream Boost, and these are things that I have never played with to know if it has a real benefit or if its just a marketing statement of some sort. Anyone have any info on this as to if there is a real gain in performance or nothing very noticable.I donno. But here is a Life Hacker bit from s guy who thinks he knows. Why Is My Internet Suddenly So Slow? He claims it is not the router. It is everything else. However, look down ---he does admit it can be is the router. Quote other times you may just have a bad router. Unfortunately, routers often don't fail by completely dying. Rather, they'll stop working well and you won't notice immediately. If your router turns into a declining dud, you'll probably want to get a new one. Here is another Life Hacker thing you might like: http://lifehacker.com/5920709/five-best-home-wi-fi-routers I think they are more honest that CNET or PCMAG. What I like about the Life Hacker article is they mention a Buffalo router ships with DD-WRT already on-board. DD-WRT, as you know, gives you more ways to tweak the performance. Router's are effectively barebones Linux MACHINES, but they do have the same speed considerations for processing and MEMORY and other things. So faster components could REDUCE the routing overhead. Enough to require silly coloured lights and can-shaped cases? Not even close. Let alone the added price tag. Quote Router's are effectively barebones Linux machines, but they do have the same speed considerations for processing and memory and other things. So faster components could reduce the routing overhead. Enough to require silly coloured lights and can-shaped cases? Not even close. Let alone the added price tag. I assumed pretty much just as you stated. However figured I would check since sometimes assumptions are far off. Even though I used the Linksys BEFSR41 as a reference, I am currently using a D-Link DIR-601 which has a: Architecture:MIPS Vendor: Atheros Bootloader: U-Boot System-On-Chip: AR7240 CPU Speed: 350MHz Processor, and I flashed it with DD-WRT to make use of far more options for configuration than that of what D-Link originally had offered. I have no complaints with my internet connection and traffic through this device. Personally after upgrading to DD-WRT from the original flash it seems to operate BETTER for how fast systems connect and authenticate to the secured WPA2 wifi. But as far as regular wired network/internet connectivity goes, there is no difference noticed between this D-Link DIR601 and the Linksys BEFSR41 that I had prior, and to me there was nothing to gain anyways since they are both 100mbps hardwired. Latency for both with direct local devices is like 3ms and latency with the internet fluctuates on a cycle with my ISP Comcast where when monitoring latency it fluctuates between 30 and 60ms when logging pings around the clock and looking back at the data. Day after day the latency doubles to around 60ms from like 9am to 11pm and then the internet gets quiet with people sleeping and then the latency drops to around 30ms until the East Coast wakes up again. I pretty much upgraded to the D-Link #1 to have wifi, but #2 to have a more modern router since the longer security devices are out there in the field, the more linkely they are to have a vulnerability come to surface and be outside of their support timeframe for flash updates to correct for exploits etc.

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I was looking at a router online for sale that claims to give optimum performance for gamers.

Question I have is.... is there any real performance benefit between say a Linksys BEFSR41 Router and a more modern gaming router such as this model? http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/gaming-router/the-difference

It was my assumption that if you have a broadband connection of say 5mbps download and 1mbps upload that it wont make a difference, and for the fact that the Linksys BEFSR41 is 100mb/s, both routers should perform the same with ISP bandwidth of 100mb/s or less. However, they state that there is Traffic Shaping and Stream Boost, and these are things that I have never played with to know if it has a real benefit or if its just a marketing statement of some sort.

Anyone have any info on this as to if there is a real gain in performance or nothing very noticable.I donno.
But here is a Life Hacker bit from s guy who thinks he knows.
Why Is My Internet Suddenly So Slow?
He claims it is not the router. It is everything else.
However, look down ---he does admit it can be is the router.
Quote

other times you may just have a bad router. Unfortunately, routers often don't fail by completely dying. Rather, they'll stop working well and you won't notice immediately. If your router turns into a declining dud, you'll probably want to get a new one.

Here is another Life Hacker thing you might like:
http://lifehacker.com/5920709/five-best-home-wi-fi-routers
I think they are more honest that CNET or PCMAG.

What I like about the Life Hacker article is they mention a Buffalo router ships with DD-WRT already on-board. DD-WRT, as you know, gives you more ways to tweak the performance.

Router's are effectively barebones Linux MACHINES, but they do have the same speed considerations for processing and MEMORY and other things. So faster components could REDUCE the routing overhead.

Enough to require silly coloured lights and can-shaped cases? Not even close. Let alone the added price tag. Quote

Router's are effectively barebones Linux machines, but they do have the same speed considerations for processing and memory and other things. So faster components could reduce the routing overhead.

Enough to require silly coloured lights and can-shaped cases? Not even close. Let alone the added price tag.

I assumed pretty much just as you stated. However figured I would check since sometimes assumptions are far off.

Even though I used the Linksys BEFSR41 as a reference, I am currently using a D-Link DIR-601 which has a:

Architecture:MIPS
Vendor: Atheros
Bootloader: U-Boot
System-On-Chip: AR7240
CPU Speed: 350MHz

Processor, and I flashed it with DD-WRT to make use of far more options for configuration than that of what D-Link originally had offered. I have no complaints with my internet connection and traffic through this device. Personally after upgrading to DD-WRT from the original flash it seems to operate BETTER for how fast systems connect and authenticate to the secured WPA2 wifi. But as far as regular wired network/internet connectivity goes, there is no difference noticed between this D-Link DIR601 and the Linksys BEFSR41 that I had prior, and to me there was nothing to gain anyways since they are both 100mbps hardwired. Latency for both with direct local devices is like 3ms and latency with the internet fluctuates on a cycle with my ISP Comcast where when monitoring latency it fluctuates between 30 and 60ms when logging pings around the clock and looking back at the data. Day after day the latency doubles to around 60ms from like 9am to 11pm and then the internet gets quiet with people sleeping and then the latency drops to around 30ms until the East Coast wakes up again.

I pretty much upgraded to the D-Link #1 to have wifi, but #2 to have a more modern router since the longer security devices are out there in the field, the more linkely they are to have a vulnerability come to surface and be outside of their support timeframe for flash updates to correct for exploits etc.

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