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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato reviewThe Grumpy Editor's Tomato reviewPosted Jan 12, 2010 20:03 UTC (Tue) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review by djc Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review
Thats too bad. In my throughput testing on a Planex MZK-W04nu running openwrt trunk, I can easily max out its 100mbit ethernet switch (hint, enable extra HT flags in hostapd.conf). Since the ath9k driver achieved this level of performance, I've been looking for a new unit with an atheros 3x3 radio + gigabit ethernet. The TP-Link unit is the only one I'm aware of at this time. Certainly the only sub-$100 one.
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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 2:16 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
My guess would be that gigabit doesn't make a lot of sense in the product since the wireless part isn't going to see gigabit throughput and for the majority if people (home users versus say a dorm user) upstream is going to be 10-50mpbs maximum. I would say having a seperate gigabit switch is goin to make more sense.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 17:46 UTC (Wed) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
New wireless will fairly easily exceed 100 Mbps throughput though, so having gbit on a new router is useful if you want to do any kind of streaming or file transfer inside your home.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 17:53 UTC (Wed) by pj (subscriber, #4506) [Link]
Sorry, but that doesn't fly: as soon as you put storage on the box (even via USB), GigaE starts making sense, even if only to prevent collisions between 'net users and local-storage users.
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