[ale] USB3 to Ethernet throughput

[dev null]

I have 1 Gb/s at $120/mo with Gigamonster in Atlanta. My somewhat old dual
core pfSense box handles it fine with snort in ips mode (had to do a bit of
tuning with preproccessors though)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4429386230.png

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
DJ-Pfulio
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:52 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] USB3 to Ethernet throughput

On 08/13/2015 02:23 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:
>  Obviously you would invalidate the effort of using a PC if you still
resort to USB Ethernet devices.

A Chromebook C720 using a USB3-to-GigE adapter tests to about 500 Mbps with
iperf.

$ iperf -c istar
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to istar, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 43.8 KByte
(default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 172.22.22.11 port 44658 connected with 172.22.22.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   603 MBytes   505 Mbits/sec


Not an extensive test, but going to other machines on the network showed
similar results from the C720.  Those other machines test in the 940+ Mbps
between each other.  As a gige router, not good enough, but as a WAN gateway
- probably fine for most of us who will never see GigE connections.

Is anyone here signed up for the 2Gbps service from Comcsst at home for
$300/month + $500 install + $500 "activation" + $??? equipment fees?
Comcast claims 1.5M people in the Atlanta area can get this service.
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