OPNsense Forum

English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: Occupy HK on June 19, 2020, 04:03:00 am

Title: J4105 throughput speeds
Post by: Occupy HK on June 19, 2020, 04:03:00 am

I am based in Asia - so not possible to acquire the usual recommendations of Fitlet2 /APU2 / Protectli.

My home network is fairly straightforward:
1x DIY NAS
4x Hosts

Am looking to improve throughput on my gigabit network from a consumer router and provide additional security for the NAS running some publicly available services (e.g. NextCloud). Have been issues transferring large files (>5GB) on samba. I enjoy tinkering and am happy to go DIY. The fiber connection is 1Gbps up/down.

Would a J4105 be fast enough to get close to max throughput? Would like to run a WireGuard server too if poss. If not, what's a good recommendation? It appears to meet the recommended spec in the manul (multi-core 1.5 GHz) but I haven't seen any posts on measuring throughput.

Title: Re: J4105 throughput speeds
Post by: Ricardo on June 19, 2020, 04:44:26 pm

Quote from: Occupy HK on June 19, 2020, 04:03:00 am

I am based in Asia - so not possible to acquire the usual recommendations of Fitlet2 /APU2 / Protectli.

My home network is fairly straightforward:
1x DIY NAS
4x Hosts

Am looking to improve throughput on my gigabit network from a consumer router and provide additional security for the NAS running some publicly available services (e.g. NextCloud). Have been issues transferring large files (>5GB) on samba. I enjoy tinkering and am happy to go DIY. The fiber connection is 1Gbps up/down.

Would a J4105 be fast enough to get close to max throughput? Would like to run a WireGuard server too if poss. If not, what's a good recommendation? It appears to meet the recommended spec in the manul (multi-core 1.5 GHz) but I haven't seen any posts on measuring throughput.

The recommended page in Opnsense is dated back to prehistoric times. Its completely misleading everybody who reads that page for the 1st time. It does not tell what WAN speed you can achieve with a 1,5Ghz multi-core CPU. 10mbit? 100Mbit? 1Gbit? THey dont tell it to you. For example a symmetric 1 Gigabit fiber UP+DOWN needs strong single-core performance. I translate this to human language: preferably above 2Ghz. If you have PPPoE type of WAN, than it would need even more powerful CPU. Multi-core CPU does not help here, if PPPoE is single-threaded. And it seems it indeed is.

Title: Re: J4105 throughput speeds
Post by: mimugmail on June 19, 2020, 05:25:15 pm

Also this unit has only one nic, so when you have WAN and LAN it will half the bandwitdh.


P.S.: you shouldn't use political usernames in a technical forum, not everyone may agree with it ;)