<html><head></head><body>So, for higher bandwidth plans people started using raspberry pi4bs with an additional usb3 Ethernet dongle. Its WiFi is not really up for the task but it does seem to make a mean wired only router, the quad A76 cores seem to be capable to reliably shape up to 1 gigabit with cpu cycles to spare.<br>So maybe get one of those and change your old wifi router into a wifi AP?<br><br>Disclaimer, I have not tried that myself, as I am on a 100/40 plan and already have a router well capable of that speed.<br><br>Best Regards<br> Sebastian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 25, 2020 6:29:17 AM GMT+01:00, Matt Taggart <matt@lackof.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 3/24/20 10:01 PM, Aaron Wood wrote:<br>[snip]<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">At the moment, however, my WRT1900AC isn't up to the task of dealing <br>with these sorts of downstream rates.<br><br>So I'm looking at the apu2, which from this post:<br><a href="https://forum.openwrt.org/t/comparative-throughput-testing-including-nat-sqm-wireguard-and-openvpn/44724">https://forum.openwrt.org/t/comparative-throughput-testing-including-nat-sqm-wireguard-and-openvpn/44724</a><br></blockquote><br>I recently got CenturyLink gig fiber and bought one of these:<br><br>Qotom Q355G4<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077ZWR8Q9">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077ZWR8Q9</a><br><br>And it's running OpenWRT 19.07 just fine, boots from a small USB thumbdrive.<br>It has no problem with CAKE + piece_of_cake up to 1gbit<br><br>Here is a table I made comparing the Qotom models<br><br><a href="https://we.riseup.net/lackof/x86-router-candidates#qotom">https://we.riseup.net/lackof/x86-router-candidates#qotom</a><br><br>(compiled last December, so prices may have changed)<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>