<![CDATA[Netgate APU4 throughput question]]>Hello… I was looking at the Netgate APU4 and clicked on community support and it brought me here, so apologies if this is the wrong place.

I'm trying to find throughput numbers on the netgate APU4...  currently I'm using Smoothwall on an old pentium level system and have hit a wall with my internet provider.  I recently moved to 50 Mbps service, but the max my firewall will push is about 25 Mbps.  I know this because if I remove the Smoothwall from the path I can hit 50 Mbps without issue.  But I can't seem to find any numbers on max throughput for the Netgate APU4 (on the store site it lists performance specs as "TBD."

No SSL encryption or anything fancy...  I've been running smoothwall simply for the firewall and to manage things like DHCP/NTP for my home network.

I did a search on "throughput" on the forums and it returned three topics I think, but didn't really go into what I was looking for.

Thanks for any assistance.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/80830/netgate-apu4-throughput-questionRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 05:32:45 GMTFri, 06 Mar 2015 22:03:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Netgate APU4 throughput question on Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:09:28 GMT]]>I have the APU1C on a Comcast 50/10 pipe.  Works like a charm, even with squid and an openVPN back to the office.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/540259https://forum.netgate.com/post/540259Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:09:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Netgate APU4 throughput question on Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:40:43 GMT]]>I get a pretty firm max of 60MB/s  or ~500Mbps.

I'm talking just NAT with factory defaults for testing, nothing fancy.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/540244https://forum.netgate.com/post/540244Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:40:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Netgate APU4 throughput question on Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:41:32 GMT]]>The AMD G-series CPU should be somewhat similar to T24L (quite popular for network appliance)
According to securityrouter.org (which is OpenBSD based, so I guess this can be take as a reference) NAT performance allows you to do 922Mbps throughput.
http://securityrouter.org/wiki/Performance

Even someone may say pf(4) on FreeBSD is slower compared with OpenBSD, or hardware variation blah blah blah….putting a 50% performance penalty (which is not quite possible, right?) you would still get 460Mbps, more than enough for your applications. I believe even the slower Geode platform will suit your need.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/530810https://forum.netgate.com/post/530810Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:41:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Netgate APU4 throughput question on Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:47:27 GMT]]>Hello,

I consider the change to pfSense but not even to buy fast and wondering then after,
so if you have enough time the brand new Soekris net6801 in Q4 this year (2015)
would be also very interesting for many pfSense users.

P.S.

No SSL encryption or anything fancy…

Then the APU would do the job also fine for you, if later something comes on top
I would suggest perhaps to take the APU board with 4 GB, if not important 2 GB
would do the job also fine.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/530756https://forum.netgate.com/post/530756Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:47:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Netgate APU4 throughput question on Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:26:27 GMT]]>Perfect!  Thank you very much…

And there wasn't any smoothwall questions to answer  ;)  I was merely presenting the situation WHY I wanted to move to PFsense and the APU4 (because my Smoothwall was bottleknecking my internet).  Was hoping to find some specs on the APU4 before shelling out the $$$ to make the move  :D

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/525660https://forum.netgate.com/post/525660Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:26:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Netgate APU4 throughput question on Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:42:43 GMT]]>Not the place for Smoothwall questions, but an APU4 should be fine for your needs. Running pfSense, people have gotten in excess of 300 Mbps. I could get 90 Mbps through the old Alix 2D13.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/525653https://forum.netgate.com/post/525653Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:42:43 GMT