Linksys LRT214 Business Gigabit VPN Router Review

Test System, Software, & Methodology

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Testing the performance of such a router like the Linksys LRT214 is easy as such. Connect two systems to the router and run benchmarks between them. Besides the systems themselves, there is no need for any extra hardware.

Testing the wireless performance is relatively simple and I’ll be using Passmark’s PerformanceTest 8’s advanced network test for this. It allows to define the connection type, packet sizes, and test length and as such, it provides a great amount of information.

I will run tests with both TCP and UDP connections and both times I’ll run tests with fixed packets of 16384 Bytes and variable packet sizes from 32 Bytes to 16384 Bytes. Each of these tests will run for 5 minutes.

Hardware Client

• Supermicro C7Z97-OCE
• Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3
• Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866MHz DDR3
• Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
• Sapphire R7 240 2GB
• be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
• Thermaltake Water 3.0 Performer
• Lian Li PC-T60

Hardware Server

• Gigabyte Z79X UD5H-BK
• Intel Core i7-4790K
• G.Skill Ares DDR3 1866MHz (2x4GB)
• OCZ Vertex4 256GB
• CoolerMaster Silent Pro Hybrid 850W
• NZXT Kraken X60
• Dimastech Easy V3

NICs

• D-Link DXE-820T
• Generic Marvel 10GBASE-T NIC

Software

• Passmark PerformanceTest 8: Advanced Network Test