New setup for Gigabyte internet

[Fapmann]

Hello,

I'm plannnig to buy soon a 1000mpbs WAN to LAN internet. I'm going to upgrade my old DD-WRT flashed NT-56U router.

My current setup that i have planned is this:
EdgeRouter Lite for Nat and router.
From here to the Switch D-Link DGS-108 (Is this switch fast enough?)
And from the switch to my main pc and to the NT-56U witch is used for Access point (For now until i upgrade)

My main question is: what is the the best value for money gigabyte router that wont bottleneck my gigabyte speeds. (If it has dual link-aggregation is a +)
And i don't need much ports. 5-8 is plenty for me.

Thanks

 

[bill001g]

This quickly gets into the discussion of how large your packets are and how many unique session you have open. There is a very different load placed on a router if you have 100 computers with 100 session each at 100kbps that 1 computer with 1 session running at 1gbit.

Most testing sites show that almost any of the newer router with gig ports can get close to the 1gbit limit with small number of sessions.

Ubiquiti is closer to a commercial router and they tend to rate their devices in packets per second which is a more valid measure. I suspect it will work better than most consumer routers, and since it is more likely you will not have thousands of open sessions it may not matter.

The switch will not bottleneck you network. Almost all switches now days can pass traffic without delays, it can run each port at 1g up 1g down all at the same time. Better switches also state rates in packets per second because 64 byte packets compared to 1500 byte packets are very different. Still it likely doesn't matter unless you are running lots of traffic between machines inside your house.

 

[Fapmann]

Thanks a lot! This cleared a lot, after reading reviews and doing some research i would be Edgerouter would be a best bet for me.

And basically any switch can do it without bottlenecks? Do you have any recommendations that is cheap and powerful?

 

[Fapmann]

http://www.amazon.de/TP-Link-TL-SG108E-Gigabit-l%C3%BCfterloses-Passivk%C3%BChlkonzept/dp/B00JKB63D8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448982178&sr=8-1&keywords=TP-LINK+TL-SG108E

Will this be a good switch? Does it provide any lag etc. ( i like the link aggregation feature a lot)

 

[bill001g]

This switch like most do not delay traffic...at least that you can measure. It should be fine.

The real reason to buy a switch like this is mostly for vlan support.

Port aggregation is almost useless in a home environment. First it will do nothing to improve your internet speeds because it is unlikely you have more than 1g coming to your house and even that is not 100% bandwidth dedicated to just you.

The most important issue with link aggregation is it does not load balance by packet it load balances by session. It is designed to have many machines accessing 1 central server it pretty much by luck will load balance but it does not improve the speed of a single file transfer.

It is primarily used in data centers but it is not used much anymore since 10g and faster ports are easily available.