![]() This complemented their SMB/Enterprise VPN lineup so they wanted a consumer unit with VPN so end users who telework could have somehting that was consumer oriented. Netgear for example did bundle VPN Endpoints in the firmware for a while before discontinuing this feature when they changed platforms. Im pretty sure i saw very high cpu utilisations on older hardware under normal use when things got busy but that may be down to the software running on it. Even with the same firmware/drivers the newer hardware does sync better but that may due to modem generational improvements rather than overall speed. Many 125MHz models were sold before the ADSL2 firmware and drivers was even ready. A cpu that runs at half (or even a quarter of) the speed would do just as well.Ĭhip manufacturers increased their clockspeeds after they went to native adsl2 (out of the box ) they again later did the same when they started to add software features such as USB file/print/samba or DLNA, bandwidth monitoring. In short, the cpu is over-powered for the job given to it. I have even tried running Squid on a smbfs partition, and it had very little impact on cpu usage. The mips cpu (a risc cpu running between 125mhz and 212mhz) is pretty powerful, but mainly just services the Linux system, and spends the rest of the time twiddling its pins! If you were running things like OpenVPN, Darkstat, etc., the cpu might work harder - but probably not by much. ![]() Thechief wrote:The modem chip does most of the work. ![]()
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