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by dikei
500 days ago
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The use-case is because it's so cheap, why bother with anything less. Currently, I can get 1Gbps Internet for $15, while the cheapest package is 200Mbps for $5. I expect they'll offer 10Gbps in my area in the next few years for the same cost as the 1Gbps now. Still, at that speed, the router CPU can actually become the bottleneck, and OpenWRT currently has pretty poor support for hardware accelerated routing. |
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I was pretty worried about that, but the machine I got for my OpenWrt router is a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny with a Core i3-8100T CPU ($80 used with SSD/RAM etc included), and it's seems like it's way overkill, even at full bore the CPU usage appears to be negligible. Power usage is the same as the ISP router at about 17W idle, 24W routing 10 gbit, and that's with a 10 Gbase-T SFP+.
It helps that with a 10 Gbps pipe you don't need to run any kind of fancy QoS algorithms or anything...