Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 16:37 Post subject: R7000 vs RT-AC87U
Hi guys,
I wanted to know if the RT-AC87U were more supported than the R7000. I've understood that the R7000 were NAT copyrighted coded by netgear so it gives a penalty to this router when third firmware installed like explained here http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DD-WRT_on_R7000 .
Is there a similar problem with RT-AC87U? OR maybe there a lot of known problems with both routers at this moment?
Mmmmmh I didn't know that since R7000 is still the best router from the test in smallnetbuilder, at least on the most essential point of a router which is the bandwith that a router can manage (even if I agree the point about wifi become important also but as I see, a lot of people don't trust the wifi yet and so they have a cable connection in their house-appartment).
So okey the two routers are not as equivalent as I thought even if they have the same freq of CPU inside.
But still my questions remains:
- why so much difference between the two test: the one in the wiki here and the one from smallnetbuilders? which one is more accurate? and therefor how is the speed on the rt-ac87U
- and which have the more problems? as I stated that netgear have copyrighted their code for the NAT, is this the same problem for asus ?
Hardware NAT isn't supported in 3rd party firmware. Because of this, NAT is performed by the CPU, meaning it takes a hit on performance. Its an issue for any router with hardware NAT, not just Netgear.