So I am a little over my head. I don’t know much about networking but got a MikroTik to hopefully learn some stuff. I am however at an impasse. I am using the default Router configuration Eth1 is my gateway interface and it is setup in a bridged connection to the rest of the interfaces. My problem is I have 400Mbs connection and right now I get on average 120 Mbps. When connected directly to the modem my machine is able to pull 400Mbps but when I have the router in the loop I am stuck at 120Mbps. I was getting around 50Mbps but changed the queues on my master local interface to “ethernet-default” from “only-hardware-queue”. That increased my throughput to 120Mbps. I have checked my cables to and from the machine to the router all the simple stuff I can think of. Any recommendations you guys can make would be a huge help. Cause well I am dumb and don’t know what I am doing =P. The amount of acronyms are too damn high.
Thanks!
This is as much as you can get from the router part of this CRS.
The CRS series are managed SWITCHES, with a low performance router as management interface for the switch chip, so routing will not be blazing fast, even if it can be set up as a router.
To reach your 400Mbps throughput, you need at least a RB850Gx2 or higher router.
For full Gigabit routing, at least a RB1100Gx2 is needed.
As you describe it, since you bridge eth1 with the rest, you do not actually need routing.
So the solution is to set eth1 as the master interface, all other ports as slaves to eth1 in the interface setup (this will ensure wire speed transfer between wired ethernet ports, and this is also the default setup). And then put the ethernet master and the wireless interface to a bridge, so you will also get wireless access (in this case you have no choice for the wireless part, but the speed is enough for N mode).
The idea is never to run the wired ethernet data flow trough a bridge and never route it (keep the data in the switch chip). This should give you wire speed performance.
I wonder why people still repeat the same fault. This topic is here so many times on this forum. Why none uses Google to read few articles about device that they have almost no knowledge about to get some information? Anyway maybe the performance could be even better when used recently announced fasttrack feature in v. 6.29. Don’t give up even you made a mistake with device selection and try fasttrack before you invest additional money into other purchase.
Thanks for your response. If I switch to just using the chip everything will the firewall still function?
Yeah I have had a router for over a year and it was fine until google fiber showed up in the area and other ISPs jumped up there base speeds.
Thanks again so much for your help =)
Firewall is software feature provided by cpu. If you do switching nothing goes to cpu. Therefore no firewall for switched traffic.
Cool that is what I thought Jarda thanks!
Well just picked up my RB/1100AHX2 and setup my CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD as a switch as wireless AP… We are rocking 400 MBPS even via the switch…
Thanks so much for your guys help I really appreciate it =)
Yeah. This is the right combination. Congratulations.