My RB450G really did a good job for my home, but it’s a bit slow for current 50M or upcoming 100M internet service.
I got 98% CPU usage if I reach 50M downstream. I only apply priority queues, few mangle rules, no L7 or anything.
The RB1xxx is expensive and bulky for residential usage (I don’t need that much ports).
Is there any plan for an upgrade on RB450G? A 1G+ processor with 5ports would be very nice.
It sounds to me like you need to optimize your rules if your only pushing 50 mbit at 98% CPU. Is your CPU set to the correct speed?
Make sure to uncheck pass through in mangle rules to prevent useless processing of packets. Use connection marks then packet markets. Connection marks are tracked under connection tracking. Makes for easier lookups to mark packets vs matching every packet.
Yes, I am aware of that. Some performance tips have been carefully checked, but still, CPU usage is high at max speed.
I have the same problem, too. I try to overdrive RB450G to 800MHz, but it become unstable.
Without QoS (which seems power consuming too, from what you report) and optimized FW rules, I can only reach 20-24MB/s too.
Not a problem for 100Mb/s WAN, but it is for LAN (far from “gigabit router” isn’t it).
Overclocking in a standard Mikrotik 450G case (no cooling at all) in not a option in my case either, it’s unstable too.
I have gotten much better performance from a 450G.
How are you testing it?
CIFS file transfert between a samba server and a client on 2 different interfaces (FW rules, server is in a DMZ), and some netcat raw tests (one session in listening mode and another as a “client”: /dev/zero to generate packets from client and /dev/null to get them on server).
Weak point is always RB450G CPU busy 100%.
If these are megabytes than this IS gigabit performance since 24MB is 192 Mb/sec, and you can not get more than about 12 MB/sec on a 100Mb/s wire… 1/5 of the gigabit bandwidth, but anyway.
Rofl, sure, sure, if you say so, it’s “gigabit performance”. 1/5 of gigabit. Oh wait…
He was just saying that you have not accidentaly ended up with the 100Mbit model. Why you only get 1/5 of Gigabit is a different question.