[JasonRoy]

I currently use a Netgear R7000 with DD-WRT. I have it seems, using shortcut engine, maxed the throughput of the hardware on about 380 mbps.
I have googled, read posts, articles and threads and it seems that that is the limit on Broadcom for well documented licensing decisions.omegle xender
What I need/want is:
- routing to about 30 LAN devices, both wifi and wired via a microtik switch into one of the router's lan ports.
- OpenVPN server permanently but it is only used when I am on holiday for instance, to connect to my home network.
- stubby for DNSoTLS.

What I do not need currently:
- QOS.

Here comes the question:
What is the recommended Atheros device or devices to run this and fully utilise the 550 mbps WAN. I might be able to upgrade to 1 gbps in the future, but it might be another year.

I am clear that if it is beyond consumer grade routers that I need to either look at the unifi, pfsense, etc. of this world. They are nice but I prefer the lower cost but most importantly the customisation possibilities on DD-WRT.

[blkt]

R7800, R7500v2, EA8500, R9000, x86.

[kernel-panic69]

x86_64 for your main router (future-proof). I don't think that even the ER-X Ubitquiti will quite handle the job, but that is a close second. On x86_64, you can run either DD, pfSense, or OPNSense and have everything you need. I am hesitant to recommend any of the higher-end consumer devices such as R9000 due to hardware failure issues and such.

For wireless, you can use R7800s configured as wired access points... I prefer to wire as much as possible, and only use wireless for mobile devices. Just my buck and some change.

[slybunda]

What sort of x86 cpu is needed for gigabit routing?

[Wildlion]

depends on what features you want to run, if you are running vpn (or things with high levels of computational overhead) a faster processor is needed.

you can look at the hardware recommendations on other sites otherwise check out some of these:
https://protectli.com/

they are designed to be routers

[05dyna]

[ddaniel51]

I worked thru several routers with the final requirements being able to run YAMon with SFE disabled and pass 1Gb on the WAN.
I chose the R9000 and bought some broke ones on Fleabay to repair. One with broken antennas had the radios turned off and became the main router with wired 9000's spread around the house as AP's and later replaced with Ubiquiti APs.

The 9000 uses the 10Gb SFP for Lan, loafs at 1Gb and does 500Mb VPN. My network has a 10Gb backbone feeding 30 devices including 2 10Gb gamers and 2 10Gb NAS's.

A Cisco Dual WAN RV340 is in test bed status waiting for the Starlink satellite dish to arrive and will be inserted in front of the 9000. Should YAMon puke and permanently die then the 9000 will be removed.