Edgerouter X Speedtest
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- This video is to show my testing of the ER-X on a gigabit connection. This is to see the maximum throughput and how the different features of the ER-X affect performance. Hopefully, this video provides some insight on if the ER-X is a good choice for gigabit networking.
I think it's important to note that the ER-X can only do 1 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth... i.e. 1 Gbps up or 1Gbps down... but not both. If you try to push 1 Gbps in both directions at the same time, what you'll notice is your bandwidth will be limited to 500/500 Mbps full duplex.
So, if you have 1 Gbps up and down, the ER-X isn't going to cut it... you'll want an ERLite-3 or an ER-4.
I recently switched from asus rt-ac58 over to er-x. My WAN is 500/50, hwnat enabled and er-x is beating the shit out of asus. I got ~23 devices on my home network, no need for QoS. I'm pretty satisfied with it. Looking for es-8 atm.
Thank you for the test. This is exactly the information I'd like to know
Excellent video, thank you very much! I needed a small router + switch that was low power enough to put in a small metal media box (Leviton SMC Box) with an A/C outlet to light up 4 CAT6 wall jacks throughout a 1,000 sq. ft. newly built 1 BDR apartment. This will also allow me to convert one of those wall CAT6 plates to the Unifi Wall Plate Wireless Access Point and maintain the Gigabit CAT6 port there. It is also nice that I only need one a/c plug to power both the router and the wall jack WAP. This is really the perfect solution. I just hope the cable modem going in there (Motorola MB7220) does not make it too hot . It is great to be able to keep true gigabit speeds from such a small and cool running metal device as I often move large files between computers. The wall plate is super discrete so no cables or devices visible anywhere, everything is in the wall but still fast!
You can also turn on QoS for only upload if required. In Australia you can now get 1000/50 plans - so allow QoS on for the 50mbit upload and keep it off for download :).
1000mbps? Probably only available in a few areas though?
YOU LEGEND. I’m having this issue with my gigabit connection here in Australia.
Thank you very much for your content. Waiting for mine ER-X-SPF to arrive (instead of USG).
One thing, you wondered in your video about UDP:
To your mentioning of UDP @5:30 an @QoS:
Keep in mind that UDP is a broadcast protocol, that's why I assume it basically needs no computing power to be able to be forwarded. Neither has is flow-control as TCP packets do. So you also have no "arrival-in-order" nor any "ack" for a retransmission in case of a failure as a headover. That's basically why I think the figures are like those.
Addition: Once for example in VoIP the signaling has been made using SIP (TCP, "Session Initiation Protocol") it will switch to UDP for the voice data itself (RTP / SRTP, "Real-time Transport Protocol"). QoS itself on VoIP is done in the header, Layer 3/4(?) using --SIP-- RTCP, which is being an odd UDP-portnumber in regard to the voice data UDP-channel RTP which is an even portnumber. And this data is processed by your soft-phone, so in terms of QoS the router just let's the packes through, and the Application at OSI Layer 7 adjusts to the underlying connection based on link status and link quality data based on RTCP)
To you mentioning of UDP @7:40 (Traffic Analysis):
UDP - because there is no content "as such" to the packet, it's not like TCP where you basically can tell the type of content of the packet. In UDP you have to parse it. (I don't know how the DPI in the EdgeRouter works). That's why the CPU has to process more. Take here the same VoIP packet. Okay, we do know TCP SIP ports, which are like 5060 or something, this is fine. But as soon as the two UDP connections are established without any sequence number or any TCP-typical feature, the router has to process more of a packet to retrieve credible data.
Excuse any typos, and feel free to correct if any mistakes found. English not my first language.
That is awesome! Thank you for answering those questions.
Thanks bro I have 1 gig down and 1 gig up I'm buying this today
THANK YOU . kept me from dropping 300 for a dream machine...
I hope I can make a dream machine video soon.... I haven't had great experiences with it.
The good news is if you find yourself outgrowing needs of this router after return period, you can just turn it into ubiquity 5-port managed switch that you probably won’t find near that price on their edgemax Switch series and just get their more powerful router like ER-4 or ER-6P.
Thanks for this video! Helped me a lot!
Great video, thanks for this. Just ordered mine to replace an ASUS RC-3200 which keeps dieing on me. I use the Ubiquity AC-PRO anda Gen 1 cloud key already so thought id give this a shot, at £50 here in the UK it seems to be a great buy, Just gotta be patient for it to arrive now.
Cheers
Thanks! Very usefull
Is that 0.216 jitter mean 216ms??
Great tests! Thank you!!
Could you please explain more, how is the best config?
Great video! I see some of your videos that you have an EdgerRouter 4 (ER-4). It would be great if you can compare the throughputs of both so people can decide if they would go for ER-X or the pricier ER-4, especially on SQM.
Don't worry, I got you.
ruclips.net/video/vrCxvP_tSJE/видео.html
While the title of that video could be better... it shows the speed difference between the ER4, ERX, and ERPoE5 (in addition to the security gateway line).
Great video, thank you.
A lot of switches offer QOS if people are curious.
Would the results be different if you had Offloading and QoS enabled?
No, that combination wasn't included because enabling QoS disables hardware offloading. The results are the same and going backwards (disabling QoS to go back to offloading) can sometimes be wonky and require a reload. That is why I did the tests in the order I did.
@@ToastyAnswers Thanks for getting back to me. Appreciate it
I like the edgerouter x, but there are some limits. first of all it's a 1G port and that's an aggregate rating. But the device itself seems to gave about a 1G limit regardless of the number of active endpoints. It really depends on how you use the device.... in my case I have a 1G WAN provider. Most of my I/O is to the WAN.
There are definitely limits to this device. It won't work for every use-case, but it does very well in most typical situations.
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So if you have an internet speed < 300Mbps and would like to avoid bufferbloat, this might be good steal.
Yep, thats what this device is basically for. I have a 100 down and 50 up connection. I now have an A+ rating on dslreports (before I had F)
Didn't understand the difference between hardware offloading enabled and traffic analysis enabled. What did you do?
Hardware offloading is what pushes the processing of certain types of data off of the CPU and onto specific hardware chips. It is enabled with a command in the CLI.
Traffic Analysis is an option you can enable in the GUI under the "Traffic Analysis" tab. It processes most of the data which flows through the router and creates a graphed database of which hosts are using certain types of traffic and how much bandwidth they are consuming.
Traffic Analysis uses a bit more processing power because it is making note of host's traffic and putting it into a neat graph. However, there is a bit of a discrepancy between offloading and the analysis feature. If you've enabled offloading, not all traffic is going to show up in the traffic analysis since it is being processed by the hardware. Only traffic that is processed in the CPU will show up in the analysis graph. If you don't enable offloading, then everything should show up in the analysis graphs. It does take a little more power to run even with offloading enabled though.
So it can do I gig up and down well in my case 940 up and down that would be great. My setup would be basic two wired devices plus wireless AP main floor cat 6 wall install to basement that connects to a five port gigabyte one of those would use another wireless AP. Would this little box be sufficient to keep Up with the Gig down and up speeds or do I get edge router 4? I have a max of 16 devices connected at the same time and my ASUS 5300 can’t get more than 630 down with just the most basic setup.
I have an Edgerouter X with gigabit up and down and it can definitely keep up with gig speeds
Nick maybe the x is all I need instead of the 4. I plan of using three ASUS 1900 AC one in AP and the other two as repeaters to generate max possible speed and limited weak signal.
@@angelorestrepo Yeah your ER-X should be more than enough for gigabit (with hardware offloading enabled). The only caveat is that you can't download and upload at 1Gbps at the same time, but I have never needed to do that and have never heard of a setup where someone would need to upload and download at 1gbps at the same time, it can upload or download at 1gbps with great performance though (when connected with Ethernet) just not both 1gbps up and down at the same time, works great with my Verizon Gigabit internet. You're not going to be able to get Gigabit speeds over WiFi though , due to limitations in the current wifi standards that are out today, most you can get over AC WiFi is around 600Mbps or so
Nick can you help me get the x model running? I went through the wizard and I might have to reset it. Can I do that through the command line? How to I set VID 201 for PPPoE for century link?
@@angelorestrepo Sure, I'm not sure if you can reset the ER-X from command line but you can also reset it by pressing down the reset button on the front for around 10 seconds then you can go through the setup wizard again. I found this configuration pastebin.com/uySp8fBr which shows how to configure the ER-X for CenturyLink fiber with PPPoE and VLAN 201, I think you would find it useful
my download speed is running between 200-400 but my upload speed is a consistent 904. i'm not sure on what i did wrong on the setup. I'v got the offloads enable too. Also i'm very new to this.
Hm, that is interesting. Offloading should be working for both download and upload. Have you enabled anything like QoS smart queue? Make sure that is disabled. You may need to restart the router and put in the offload commands a second time.
Also, it is only going to get the full speed in a single direction, so if you have other devices uploading or downloading this will affect your testing.
1. If you are a regular user, you wouldn't buy this stuff and think about hardware offloads. So, no, people who buy this care about upload speeds.
2. UDP was performing better without HW offloading because you don't really offload anything with UDP. checksum is optional with UDP.
Soooo should I turn off hardware offloading when I enable QOS to get better speeds?
No, enabling QoS automatically disables hardware offloading. You don't need to turn it off because the two will not function together anyways. However, if you disable QoS you will have to manually re-enable hardware offloading as it doesn't automatically revert.
Hi, i have edgerouter x with firmware 2.09. I use wan 1 and wan 2. Normal speed in wan 2 is 200mbit of download and 20 of upload. With my ubiquiti router the speed came limited to 60/70 mbit in download, why ?
I have enabled/disabled ipsec and hwnat but the problem is always the same.
Thanks a lot for the help.
You don't have smart-queue or any other type of QoS configured do you? The QoS configuration will take precedence over the offloading. It will still take the offloading commands, but won't tell you if another setting is going to override it.
@@ToastyAnswers hi, i not have nothing QOS oe firewall or smart queue active. The only active are ipsec, hwnat, masquerade for WAN.
Very informative vid .. Im looking to buy an edge router for my house , ERX is on my list along with TPlink605 , but I really don’t know which one to buy ! My internet speed is about 750 Mbps .. and might consider upgrading next year , what do you recommend knowing that this ERX is almost 4 yrs old now
Thank you ‘
Thank you for the comment! This router is fairly dated at this point, but is still a solid performer IMO (for the price). If your internet speed is 750Mbps, I'd look at either the ER-4 or the Dream Machine. You might want to check out my Edgerouter Vs. Security Gateway to see the ER-4 performance.
It really comes down to how much you are wanting to process the traffic (QoS...IPS...etc...) as to which one you should go with.
TL;DR: The ER-X will do 750Mbps with no processing at all (firewall only, and only in one direction). The ER-4 will easily do 750Mbps in both directions with only firewall and the Dream Machine will easily process all the traffic with IPS.
@@ToastyAnswers thank you very much for you time and reply … actually my main ISP connection is outside the house ( in a centralized IT room ) so Wi-Fi not needed .. I’ve checked the dream machine and I believe it’s way above my budget 😊 although it looks and sounds like a dream to me !!
I have a setup of 4x mesh asus xt8 ( each serving a room ) so what I’m looking at is a router/ switch bundle to through at the “IT room” and distribute the connection to each mesh router .. from what I read , the ER4 isn’t good at switching ( no internal switching chip ) plus it has only 4 ports while I need 5 ( 1 ISP uplink and 4 downlinks for the mesh routers ) .
The ERX is outdate as you said , and most of the reviews aren’t positive about it being able to process above 500 mbps ..
I have checked two other vendors , tplink er605v2 / er7206 and the mikrotik hex s .. which seem to fall under same price range , but little reviews and tests are done for both ! Have you had the chance to benchmark them or test them before ? Thank you
@@thair I actually think I have the ER605v2 ready to be benchmarked (I'm not at home right now so I can't verify the exact model). It is in with a bunch of TP-Link equipment I plan to benchmark and make videos on.
For Microtik, I've always read about their stuff, but I've never actually used any of it. I've come close to ordering some.
@@ToastyAnswers Thanks again for your time , I can’t wait to see how the er605v2 will do against erx … keep the good work !
Does anyone know if these different configurations also affect the switching performance? For example does the QoS limit the switching speed between eth1 and eth2 when eth0 is the wan connection?
This is not something I've tested. I'm not entirely sure if it affects the LAN-LAN speeds.
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Great Video. Please SLOW down a little!
There are settings in the bottom right that will let you set any video to speeds between 0.25x and 2x :)
Watching this Video and following the instructions in your other video (ruclips.net/video/aECPxlT6Qq4/видео.html) at about 7:50 I was able to bump my edgerouter X sfp throughput from about 500Mbps to just under 900Mbps. Thank you
Awesome! Glad it could help!
Thank you for the test. This is exactly the information I'd like to know