Netgear R7500v2 WAN Thruput Limits

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The r7500v2 is ipq8064 based, the older/ slightly slower brother of ipq8065 and the r7800/ nbg6817, everything said about them applies here as well:

Bandwidth Issues on Zyxel NGB6817

For using OpenWrt, the ipq806x target isn't quite capable to route at 1 GBit/s linespeed - it should do more than 100 MBit/s (depending on your expectations for latencies probably between 350-400 MBit/s up to ~600-650 MBit/s, with software flow-offloading enabled), but 1 GBit/s is a bit above its abilities (you would need mvebu or x86_64 for that, perhaps ipq8074 in the future). Especially with 1+ GBit/s fibre connections, you're quickly leaving the prosumer space and are fairly far into enterpr…

NBG6817 download speed inconsistencies

Without NSS/ NPU support, ipq8065 is punching above its weight at those WAN speeds - considering that, your figures aren't really surprising (the choppy results won't happen within its throughput bracket, as you can see in the upload direction). I wouldn't recommend ipq8065 beyond ~350-400 MBit/s WAN throughput, yes, you can stretch that with flow-offloading, but the results you're getting are exemplary for this (keep in mind, flow-offloading can only speed up established connections and you're …

So you have 500Mbps-1Gbps fiber and need a router READ THIS FIRST

It's such a frequently asked question over the last few years that we really need a post we can point people to. So your cable company rolled out 500Mbps or 1Gbps download speeds, or you have 1Gbps symmetric fiber (GPON/EPON) from ATT or Centurylink or Orange or whoever. You realize your old all in one router from 2009 is not up to the task of handling this, but hey by now stuff should be cheap and available that will handle your new fiber connection right? So you want advice about a router for…