SOHO Router for Gbit PPPoE ISP

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Hello community,

Recently I switched to new ISP with Gbit plan over PPPoE and seems my current RB951G-2HnD can’t handle that, so I’m thinking about upgrade, but I not sure which SOHO RouterBoard is best suitable for WAN Gbit PPPoE.

Here are new SOHO stars: hEX and hAP ac routers, but I’m not sure are they suitable for me. I read blog reviews and some of them were saying “hAP ac has less powerful CPU than hEX”. Performance tables on routerboard.com showing that hAP outperforms hEX, so I’m a bit confused with this.

So the question is: will hEX or hAP handle my loads or I need to find other solution? Wireless cards in router are optional for me, I’ll use the router mainly for wired connections.

Thanks!

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I thing RB951G is enough.

Try enabled fasttrack with PPPoE

Upgrade to 6.35rc37 or above and enable fasttrack
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wiki/Fasttrack
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path

In 6.35rc is suported fastpath for PPPoE
What´s new i 6.35rc:
*) pppoe-client - implemented fastpath support;

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It is like the RB2011. It should not be enough.

I have that at 65% with 500Mbps download and fasttrack. And without PPPoE.

Gx2 ← (not sure about PPPoE). And assuming asymmetric.

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rb2011 download about 900Mbit with fasttrack
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wiki/Fasttrack#FastTrack_on_RB2011

RB951G - maybe more then 300Mbit with PPPoE and fasttrack. Maybe this test is limited by ISP speed:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/radius-server-not-working-in-2-8-11/127/1

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There are hardly any rules in that RB2011 example.

And what is the packet size?

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Time to update firmware. Thanks for the hint. I’ll be back with results.

BTW, why hAP ac and hEX performance tables so different? As I understood QCA9558 and QCA9556 share same CPU architecture, but QCA9558 has wireless in SoC. Or I missed something?

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Here is table with SoC comparisons. Still unclear what causes higher performance in hAP ac over hEX.

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I’m curious. Please share your result :slight_smile:

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Maybe they were tested with different RouterOS versions. Someone asked once why hEX was faster.