J1900 performance

JKnott

@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.

bradsm87

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.

JKnott

@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.

bingo600

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.

JKnott

@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.

bingo600

@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

stephenw10

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.
But probably just copy pasta.

Steve

oldlongjohnson

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.

bradsm87

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.

thegriffin

@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.

bradsm87

@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.

thegriffin

@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.

stephenw10

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

bradsm87

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

thegriffin

Thank you both. Yep there's no way to know for sure until the box is here and even if it does make it to 1 Gb/s with a basic config it may struggle with a more complex one on top of the PPPoE issue (which it wouldn't with IPoE).

At the moment I can't justify an i3/i5 for a home firewall/router so I had decided to squeeze some more life out of my aging Asus AIO until next year.

I was also looking at their new 8 NIC boxes (4 x I211AT + 4 x I350) and 8th gen Intel CPUs of which the i3/i5 are a worthwhile upgrade over 7th gen.

JKnott

@jknott

Well, the HP computer I was running pfSense on died, so I'll have to get something. Today I came across this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32864883139.html?gps-id=pcStoreLeaderboard&scm=1007.22922.122102.0&scm_id=1007.22922.122102.0&scm-url=1007.22922.122102.0&pvid=95b54977-2a52-4283-90d5-89784c1471b7&spm=a2g0o.store_home.smartLeaderboard_819228523.32864883139

At the moment, I'm using a Linksys WRT54GL & OpenWRT. Boy, is it slow, about 35 Mb down! It's also IPv4 only. It's about 540 Mb/s slower than what I was getting with pfSense on that HP computer.

4o4rh

@jknott are you saying the Quotom is significantly slower, or the linksys/openwrt is slower. If you mean the Quotom, the J1900 is a Quad Core system, where as the link you provided is for dual core systems.

The N3160 would be the newer version supporting AES
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001510522500.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.1cc77f2dQx5UvI&algo_pvid=42cfd0b7-04d1-45bf-a0e9-67003baac53e&algo_expid=42cfd0b7-04d1-45bf-a0e9-67003baac53e-0&btsid=0b0a182b16101780984958676ebf55&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_

or the i5-8250 for slightly more up market
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001813291053.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.12.511b33e9w3Cnpd

bingo600

@gwaitsi

AFAIK the WRT54G has a 400MHz MIPS processor, and using their default firmware. I had around 30Mb/s speed through it, when in use. That was ok back in 2004 when it was released.

The Qotom will outperform it by a factor 10 or more.

I'm using the i3-7100U at work, w 64GB disk + 8 GB Ram
Excellent OpenVPN performance (that i need at work)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32970672528.html

But they seem to have gotten a notch up in price, ISTR i payed ~330$ last summer.

I like my "home" Qotoms" too , but would prob go for the 6-Port i3-7100, if i had to get a new one.

Both of my tested models will do 1Gbit/s wo. probs.

JKnott

@jknott

I'm also considering the Netgate SG-1100. Will it support 500 Mb download? Also, are updates for it free? Or do they require a subscription or service plan?

tnx jk

NinthWave

I have an Supermicro X10SBA paid 110$ in 2018.

I run pfSense on Proxmoc with 2 cores and 2 GB of RAM with pfBlock NG and it never uses more than 50% of RAM and less than 30% of CPU.

I have a cable 100/30.

Pretty satisfied.