Fastest Wireless N Router/Processor?

Which brand/model happens to have the fastest processor/controller for a Wireless N router? (any router less than $200 is ok with me.) I have an old Netgear Wireless N router from October 2007. It's super fast as long as I don't enable the keyword/website filtering. I can easily hit 17 mbit/s internet access via cablemodem without filtering, but I also have half a dozen sites that I do need to block/filter... this unfortunately reduces the bandwidth down to about 4 or 5 mbit/s! It's time to upgrade and I was wondering which Wireless N router can process/filter the sites/data real fast so that I can stay near the max internet speed/bandwidth with filtering enabled. Please let me know. Thanks.

 

I wouldn't worry about processor speed, a decent newer one should. They all have much more ram and processor speed. I'm not sure why your filtering is causing such slowdowns, sounds strange to me.

Take a look at the Netgear 3700 series, it's pretty much the current champ and should make your old router look anemic.

 

When you start using router as a proxy server they will slow down. A work around if you know it's coming from a particular set of IP's address or domain use the security rule and block it there. I have blocked about 5 IP sets coming out of China. They were trying to hack in to my FTP server so I just blocked the full ISP.

 

Hi everyone, thank you for your information. I was fumbling around for several days choosing between the WNDR3700 and WNDR37AV (same thing ). Today I saw the WNDR37AV for $141 at Office Depot online and found a $20 off coupon at Retailmenot. So I have ordered this WNDR37AV and it should arrive Jan 10 (free shipping and it'll be dropped shipped from somewhere). This will be my 5th Netgear router!

Inside the box I'm pretty sure they'll give me the WNDR3700 version ha ha thanks to Netgear's strange duplicate series. Both part numbers are even printed on the side of the WNDR37AV box.

While fumbling around I discovered this new Netgear router has the opendns filtering/support. This looks to be more advanced than the basic opendns filtering that I already am using. Instead of using the router as a keyword filter or proxy server I think I can soon use the netgear-opendns version (the Netgear website said this is a faster method without having to bog down the router).

Thanks. Bye

 

I'm a bad guy - i did the unthinkable!! I returned it!! The Netgear guys just had to announce the new WNDR3800 and WNDR4000 at CES last week... so i just had to return the WNDR37AV/WNDR3700 too. I didn't open the Netgear package... returning it factory sealed.

(I also bought a new Motorola Surfboard 6120 Docsis 3 cablemodem to replace my SB 5101 Docsis 2 modem - it didn't make any speed difference at all but that's ok as this is the latest Docsis 3 box.)

 

According to SmallNetBuilder the fastest router they have tested is the D-Link DIR-685 as far as average throughput goes.

The Netgear WNDR3700 is also extremely quick and highly recommended.

I would read their site if you want legitimate router reviews. Its the only site I've ever seen that tests routers properly instead of just saying "Well, this router has pretty neat features and costs a lot so it must be good!".

EDIT: I just realized you've already bought your router. I'm too slow!

 

Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 | Maximum PC

for a second opinion on the netgear

 

I also bought the WNDR3700 last week and it's blazing fast compare to my WRT350N v1. I've flashed both with DD-wrt firmware for more advanced feature set.

 

...and worse performance.

 

Netgear's stock FW have too many issues, I'm comfortable with DD-wrt and rather take the hit than to deal with instability problems.

 

^bump

The long-awaited new Netgear WNDR4000 finally showed up in the stores! I picked one from Fry's last Friday and got it installed earlier today. It works fine so far... and I get to be a beta tester to figure out where it crashes!!!




bye.

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Also forgot to mention this.... when in the portrait/vertical mode.... all the photos of the WNDR4000 on the internet show the LEDs to the left side (like above) and their stand is at the bottom. On the released version, we'll be surprised to find the LEDs pointing to the right side! We cannot flip the stand to the other side in the production model. Anyways I made a simple bracket last Saturday to bolt it down (and to flip it back to the other way that I prefer)....

 

Nice, I'm been looking forward for it.
How is the dual band simultaneous??

I was wondering if there is a change of throughput when transferring a file from 2.4ghz N device to 5 ghz N device, when the router to set mixed mode for the 2.4 ghz.

 

Hey there. Welll.... to be honest.... I dunno about the throughput because I haven't done much with it yet other than some casual use. Most of the time yesterday I was just setting it up (pasting in the static IPs/addresses stuff )Yeah, just go for it!!

 

Er, don't most (all?) dual band simultaneous routers separate the 2.4 GHz band from the 5 GHz band, making them essentially 2 separate networks? This would mean that you couldn't really transfer from a 2.4 GHz device to a 5 GHz device without something in between...

 

Yes they are 2 separate networks but as 2 separate interfaces in a sense, but the bridge is the router itself. Keeping it as entirely 2 totally independent entity would be extra work on the router.

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There's is no point that the router has to check if the packet belongs to them.

Then check if the packet source and destination is on the same interface.

If they are, forge and forward it to same interface, otherwise drop it.

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Of course, I have not worked on actual wireless routers but I dabbled in Computer network theory and virtual routers implementation.