Thank you Xeon, I did actually see that a little while ago. I'll give it to you straight, no shame:
I don't know what accelerating NAT (network address translation?) means performance-wise. Or really at all. I tried the wikipedia article for NAT, but I can't make sense of the in-depth explanation.
Moving on to the next part of the sentence. It therefore increases WAN-LAN throughput, okay. Wired access network to local area network, so that means you can use your router to service your devices with a higher-speed internet connection than previously possible. Right...?
My original question remains (and is probably tied to my ignorance of what NAT really is): is NAS performance improved?
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:21 Post subject:
NAS speed is not improved, only speed to and from the internet, my testing shows that it improves a lot on my R6400. But it only makes sense if you have a very high bandwith internet connection.
To and from the internet, the traffic has to be translated and inspected by your router, that is a very processor intensive job and hence takes it toll on throughput. You can buy a router with a faster processor that will help of course.
But for us poor people we now have SFE this basically makes a shortcut between internet and your lan and thus can improve throughput to and from the internet.
Thank you Xeon, I did actually see that a little while ago. I'll give it to you straight, no shame:
I don't know what accelerating NAT (network address translation?) means performance-wise. Or really at all. I tried the wikipedia article for NAT, but I can't make sense of the in-depth explanation.
Moving on to the next part of the sentence. It therefore increases WAN-LAN throughput, okay. Wired access network to local area network, so that means you can use your router to service your devices with a higher-speed internet connection than previously possible. Right...?
My original question remains (and is probably tied to my ignorance of what NAT really is): is NAS performance improved?
Exactly what egc said. But lets assume he never replied, you have the knowledge, you left some logic to process that knowledge. You already know it accelerates WAN-LAN transference. NAS is LAN-LAN... that's it, you answered yourself. _________________ R6400v2 (boardID:30) - Kong 36480 running since 03/09/18 - (AP - DNSMasq - AdBlocking - QoS) R7800 - BS 31924 running since 05/26/17 - (AP - OpenVPN Client - DNSMasq - AdBlocking - QoS) R7000 - BS 30771 running since 12/16/16 - (AP - NAS - FTP - SMB - OpenVPN Server - Transmission - DDNS - DNSMasq - AdBlocking - QoS) R6250 - BS 29193 running since 03/20/16 - (AP - NAS - FTP - SMB - DNSMasq - AdBlocking)
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 22:32 Post subject: Wonderful
Amazing, you guys are wonderful, thanks for taking the time from your days to teach me some things.
In that case, SFE really does sound like a solid addition to the DDWRT firmware!
Must admit I was a little excited that this was some kind of software acceleration for NAS similar to the (largely unsafe?) hardware acceleration on some stock router firmwares. I'm over it now though, and what SFE does do is certainly enough to write home about.
