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#133396 21-Oct-2013 10:21
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My Genius arrived today but my fibre install isn't until early December.

I've seen a few comments suggesting that the ethernet ports on the Genius are only Fast Ethernet (100Mbps).  My question: what's the maximum throughput the Genius can sustain on UFB?

Many home/small business routers are built with an architecture where the ethernet ports are all on a VLAN-capable switch, and the main router CPU has a single ethernet interface to this switch.  If this is the case with the Genius, and if that connection between the CPU and the switch is merely 100MBps full duplex, then it looks like it would be impossible to get the full 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up that a UFB connection can supply, on a wired connection.

The maths: a 100Mbps full duplex port allows 100Mbps in each direction.  Traffic between a PC on the local LAN (wired), and the internet, has to transit both directions through that port.  So if I'm downloading at 100Mbps, that's 100mbps of traffic from the ONT to the CPU, and 100Mbps of traffic from the CPU to my PC -- 100Mbps in both directions.  If I try to upload 50Mbps at the same time, that's another 50Mbps in both directions ... which the switch may not support.

Now wireless mucks this analysis up a bit because it's usually attached directly to the CPU.  So you could get the full speed via wireless.  My experience with Wifi, though, is that it's never as fast as it says on the box.  Unless the Genius has especially good wifi, that won't help much.

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  #918987 21-Oct-2013 10:21
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  #919022 21-Oct-2013 10:36
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I'm confused by your maths. The traffic doesn't traverse the WAN connection twice. The total throughput on the WAN connection on a 100/50 UFB connection will not exceed 150Mbps. As long as the device has a 100Mbps full-duplex port with enough switching bandwidth to support the ports, it'll be fine.

Let's pretend we're looking at a LAN switch, which has a router hanging off one port, and a PC off another.

100/50UFB router (fe0/1) switch (fe0/2) PC

You can be transferring 100down/50up from PC to fe0/2, which is passed at the same rate (100down/50up) to fe0/1, out to the UFB connection. Your traffic doesn't go UFB -> WAN -> switch -> WAN - > switch as your math would imply if I am interpreting your post correctly. It should not be double-handled by any port.

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  #919030 21-Oct-2013 10:45
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Inphinity: I'm confused by your maths. The traffic doesn't traverse the WAN connection twice. The total throughput on the WAN connection on a 100/50 UFB connection will not exceed 150Mbps. As long as the device has a 100Mbps full-duplex port with enough switching bandwidth to support the ports, it'll be fine.

Let's pretend we're looking at a LAN switch, which has a router hanging off one port, and a PC off another.

100/50UFB router (fe0/1) switch (fe0/2) PC

You can be transferring 100down/50up from PC to fe0/2, which is passed at the same rate (100down/50up) to fe0/1, out to the UFB connection. Your traffic doesn't go UFB -> WAN -> switch -> WAN - > switch as your math would imply if I am interpreting your post correctly. It should not be double-handled by any port.


If the internal architecture of the router is a SoC with *two* fast ethernet ports, one attached to the ONT and one to the switch, then that's fine.  Many routers cheap out and have *one* fast ethernet port on the SoC, and separate out WAN/LAN traffic by VLAN tagging in the (internal) switch -- then both WAN and LAN traffic do transit a single 100Mbps ethernet port.




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  #919063 21-Oct-2013 11:29
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Hi

The ports in the Genuis are 100mbit (as you pointed out), but the switching fabric is much more capable. The WAN port is actually just one of the switch ports on the same chip set. (Port 4).

There is no issues with getting the max out of UFB connection with the Genius modem.

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