[SOLVED] "Benchmarking" router?

[Patrickibsen]

How would you "benchmark" a router and how could i benchmark a router?

 

[anotherdrew]

How would you "benchmark" a router and how could i benchmark a router?

With a router, the concern is throughput. How many bits per second can pass through a router. The simplest test for this is a speed test. For the vast majority of us, our internet connect is far slower than our router and therefore it is not a concern.

If you google your router model and "throughput", it is likely that someone has looked into that already.

 

[kanewolf]

How would you "benchmark" a router and how could i benchmark a router?

One website that used to do that was smallnetbuilder.com -- Here is a WIFI6 router comparison -- https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wir...-fi-6-performance-roundup-five-routers-tested They have a controlled RF environment for testing WIFI Here is the article on how they test wired ethernet -- https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-howto/33107-how-we-test-hardware-routers-revision-10
The WIFI testing is not practical for home users but the ethernet testing is possible.

 

[bill001g]

As mentioned wifi testing is extremely hard and even the professionals test environments can get misleading results. It all does not really matter since the most common issues with wifi tend to be the house itself and/or the end devices. You hear many people upgrade routers and see no change.

Testing ethernet is almost a waste of time. Even a very inexpensive router can do gigabit wan/lan. These device have offloaded the NAT function to hardware so the CPU does not impact the traffic. I suppose you could turn off the feature and test but then you would pretty much be testing cpu clock speeds more than anything else.