On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have net by cable with nominal speed 200Mbps. The ISP provides a > modem/router Netgear (from Numericable). I disabled the WiFi and I > have 2 computers connected via ethernet to the router. The speed is > about 156Mbps (measured by http://www.speedtest.net), which seems to > be what to expect. > > Now, having a device provided by the ISP to act as router seems to be > good for people who trust both the ISP and the manufacturer. (Please > comment if I'm being too paranoid.) > The next hop after the ISP supplied router is another piece of the ISPs network equipment, so the ISP access to your data is equivalent, since the geography is not important. I dont think Netgear is any less trustworthy than TP-link or whatever. Here the trust is probably more about reliability of the device than data privacy. Probably being too paranoid. > So, I setup the router to work in bridge mode and connected one of the > 4 lan ports to the Wan port of a secondary router TP-link (Archer > C1200, Wireless dual band gigabit). It is supposed to comply with > 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz and 802.11a/n/ac 5GHz. Not that this matters per > se, as I disabled the WiFi. > > The point is: I connected the computers to the lan ports of my > secondary router (with original firmware, but I intended to install > ddwrt), and the setup works, except that the speed never reaches > 100Mbps. > Ok so i think you've downgraded your performance without any real change in security. > > Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz > WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. > The power consumption is about 4.5w, which seems a bit flimsy. > Or maybe the primary router is thottling speed when in bridge mode? Is > this possible at all? (And if so, what could be the purpose of such > measure? *spooky*) > Does ifconfig show any interface errors? You can probably setup PPPoA, or whatever is required, on your Gentoo box to bring the service up instead of the TP-link, and test the bridge mode throughput. This also means you can have maximum flexibility since Gentoo will do all the interesting network stuff. However, unless you wanted to do that as a learning exercise its probably a waste of time and effort. Does TPlink provide any performance stats?
