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    • JKnottJ
      JKnott
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      I just got my 500/20 Mb modem set up. I get 559.79 down and 21.63 up. Did my message appear faster? šŸ˜‰

      PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
      i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
      UniFi AC-Lite access point

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        akuma1x @JKnott
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        @JKnott said in J1900 performance:

        I get 559.79 down and 21.63 up on a 500/20 Mb service.

        Hey... that's cheating!

        :)

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          soder @VAMike
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          @VAMike
          it'll almost certainly be cheaper to buy something better later when you need it than it is to buy that same level of performance now

          Seeing the trends during this past 6 months of COVID madness, where even the el-cheepo worlds most crappy 360p webcams got a 10x price hike in the March timeframe, I would say for sure there is no such electronics that hasnt faced a significant price increase due to high demand. So its a naive thing to say prices will go down in the future. I would say the opposite: anything that you can buy today at a reasonable price, will only be more expensive next year, because of vendor greediness.

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            VAMike @soder
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            @soder said in J1900 performance:

            @VAMike
            it'll almost certainly be cheaper to buy something better later when you need it than it is to buy that same level of performance now

            Seeing the trends during this past 6 months of COVID madness, where even the el-cheepo worlds most crappy 360p webcams got a 10x price hike in the March timeframe, I would say for sure there is no such electronics that hasnt faced a significant price increase due to high demand. So its a naive thing to say prices will go down in the future. I would say the opposite: anything that you can buy today at a reasonable price, will only be more expensive next year, because of vendor greediness.

            Well, it's fairly easy to see that the costs for various fw/router products haven't increased by 10x, so the rest of your point is simply unfounded.

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              soder @VAMike
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              @VAMike webcams prices did, so your conclusion against the generic continuous price increase I said in the 2nd part is not applicable. Not arguing, but routers wont be cheaper next year.

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                VAMike @soder
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                @soder said in J1900 performance:

                @VAMike webcams prices did, so your conclusion against the generic continuous price increase I said in the 2nd part is not applicable. Not arguing, but routers wont be cheaper next year.

                Well, if you weren't just bits on the internet I'd take your bet. You keep arguing based on a temporary supply/demand driven price spike which is basically a strawman argument and I'm arguing based on specing/buying computer hardware for decades. Also you're kind of glossing over a key point: price points will tend to be somewhat stable, but price for a given level of performance drops as capabilities are improved on new products. And with that I'm done the back and forth.

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                • JKnottJ
                  JKnott @akuma1x
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                  @akuma1x said in J1900 performance:

                  @JKnott said in J1900 performance:

                  I get 559.79 down and 21.63 up on a 500/20 Mb service.

                  Hey... that's cheating!

                  :)

                  Here's what I get today.

                  My ISP has generally provided better than advertised performance. Also, I got this as part of a bundle to upgrade to IPTV and in the process my bill will decrease by about $60-70 per month.

                  PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                  i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                  UniFi AC-Lite access point

                  I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                    bradsm87
                    last edited by stephenw10

                    The Qotom Q515G6 with the Celeron 3865U is well worth the extra cost IMO. It's a much newer generation, supports AES-NI, has much better IPC, uses less power in practice and generates less heat.

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                    • JKnottJ
                      JKnott @bradsm87
                      last edited by

                      @bradsm87 said in J1900 performance:

                      The Qotom Q515G6 with the Celeron 3865U is well worth the extra cost IMO. It's a much newer generation, supports AES-NI, has much better IPC, uses less power in practice and generates less heat.

                      According to this, it does not support AES-NI.

                      PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
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                      • bingo600B
                        bingo600
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                        Intel says that it do

                        https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/96507/intel-celeron-processor-3865u-2m-cache-1-80-ghz.html

                        Weird .... That Qotom says it doesn't.

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                        • JKnottJ
                          JKnott @bingo600
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                          @bingo600

                          That page I linked to is one of those d*mned annoying sites that won't stay still. When I first linked to it, on a Google search, the page that appeared it said it wasn't supported. Search on Qotom Q515G6 and take the first link.

                          Don't the people who develop those horrible sites understand that it makes it useless for trying to nail down info? They must be one of those "form over function" idiots who think a pretty site is more important than a useful one.

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                          i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                          UniFi AC-Lite access point

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                          • bingo600B
                            bingo600 @JKnott
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                            @JKnott

                            No you misunderstod my post.
                            The page you links to says AES-NI : NO

                            But the page i linked to : Intel Processor specs - Says AES-NI: YES

                            So either the Chinese have made a "Clone" where they destroyed AES-NI 😵
                            Or they "again" have no clue whet they're "Cut & Past'ing" on their product pages.

                            /Bingo

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                              They could have disabled it in the BIOS. Or maybe via a pin. Or maybe used CPUs from bin Z that have failed an AES test. šŸ˜‰
                              But probably just copy pasta.

                              Steve

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                                oldlongjohnson
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                                That machine will do 500/20 and gigabit on the LAN side without issue. Even though the hardware is old, its more than powerful enough to handle routing traffic and doing basic firewall duty. However, for the ~100 dollars less you can get a used office machine on ebay with an i5, or if youre lucky i7, 4th or 5th gen + a 4 port intel NIC, and at the benefit of having standard hardware and a standard form factor should something go wrong or you want to upgrade in the future (10gbe nic or something like that). But of course it wont be as small or absolutely silent, and it will draw a few cents more power every month.
                                If space and power consumption arent factors, i'd go with a used PC since it wins on every other quality.

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                                  bradsm87
                                  last edited by

                                  The Q515G6 does support AES-NI. It is a mistake on the web site. I’ve used about 6 of them now. The Aliexpress listings state that they do too.

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                                    thegriffin @bradsm87
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                                    @bradsm87 Have you tried a Q515G6 with a PPPoE WAN link and if so what throughput did you get?

                                    I was looking at one of those myself and wondering if it can do 1 Gb/s PPPoE.

                                    BTW I agree that it's a better buy than the J1900 box.

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                                      bradsm87 @thegriffin
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                                      @thegriffin I’m quite sure it would have no issue there. I just did a multi-threaded speed test saturating my 400/50 connection and CPU usage peaked at 17%.

                                      I don’t have another internet connection with a fast enough upload speed to test VPN throughput but I suspect it would near saturate the connection with AES128-GCM too. It’s an extremely fast appliance. I’ve used many of the J1900 ones in the past and the 3865U is much faster and runs cooler.

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                                        thegriffin @bradsm87
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                                        @bradsm87 Thanks for the info. Does your ISP use PPPoE? As there is a specific problem with it that impacts throughput.

                                        For OVPN, according to a Youtube test running pfSense in a different brand box, the 3865U does about 330 Mb/s which is pretty good and enough for my use. For sure it supports AES-NI.

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                          It's close to double the single thread performance in a synthetic benchmark:
                                          https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-J1900-vs-Intel-Celeron-3865U/2131vs3034

                                          The J1900 was surprisingly bad at PPPoE though. There were some threads where it chocked out at ~500Mbps. I think with tweaking it get's closer to 700Mbps. So....

                                          No way to know for sure without testing though.

                                          Steve

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                                            bradsm87 @thegriffin
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                                            @thegriffin my current ISP is just IPoE/DHCP so I can’t help you there.

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