Micro Routers (Was:Raspberry PI (as router))

Scott Sullivan scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 12 20:14:57 UTC 2012


On 06/12/2012 02:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:56:09PM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
>> Just throw a USB to Ethernet adapter on the USB port and you have
>> your micro router ready to go today. A handful of us have been
>> experimenting with them at the Hacklab and are finding them to be
>> very functional.
>
> They are nothing like real network ports when it comes to efficiency
> and performance.
>

True. But when your connected to a DSL modem topping out at 6Mbps down 
and 800Kbps one will likely not care.

Lennat, you wouldn't happen to have any recommendations for testing the 
performance? iperf comes to mind, but that will only look at upd/tcp 
throughput.

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