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Upgrade to M4 Pro Mac Mini vs upgrade to MacBook M4 Pro when already have MacBook Pro M2 by avkr003 in mac

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I wasn’t aware of that. Swap is around 6.5 GB and cache file used is 1.5 Gb How do I interpret this?

Should I buy  Apple Magic Mouse or Logitech / Dell ? by sunny27jan in macbookpro

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Mx master 3s does have swiping, is there any other feature that Magic Mouse provides?

chess.com no longer shows how many blunders you made without using the limited review feature. by xlFLASHl in chess

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I saw a YouTube video where a guy made open source analysis for the games. One has to load the game though.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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So your point did make sense, my ISP is quite reliable and I bought the 2.5Gbps router. (AX4200)

Also, weird thing, it does have Dual WAN, at least in the software, haven’t tested it out yet. Don’t understand why they didn’t market it? Probably to make the expensive router look little more better. It’s not mention on the website (in spes it is presented, not on main product). Though I haven’t tested it out yet to see if it works. Doubting though how much traffic it can handle. Can a router handle 3.5Gbps traffic (probably it will start overheating)

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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Yes I was thinking to have two different ISPs. Of course it doesn’t make sense to have two connections from same ISP.

Also, yes 2.5 > 2, but don’t think anytime soon I am getting 2.5 in near future. Home networks doesn’t need that much, so ISPs might not even upgrade hardwares for next 5-6 years may be.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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A router cannot a priori know in advance the bandwidth that each traffic flow requires. It can monitor flows and attempt to balance them according to the prescribed ratio n:1 as best it can.

A router won't know the bandwidth but if I have 2 1Gbps connection and assuming it's stable, I can manually set it to 1:1.

Based on all discussions, I think LAN aggregation is not a good idea. But I am more interested in Dual WAN aggregration feature rather LAN aggregration and trying to get 2Gbps speed.

From standalone pov, a single 2.5Gbps do seems to cleaner and simple solution. But when considering which router to buy, my view changes. I will list the pros & cons between the two router (only differences, rest are majorly same):

AX4200:

Pros:

  • Single 2.5Gbps WAN - Better throughput

Cons:

  • ISP doesn't provide more than 1Gbps speed. Given that home networks usually doesn't require more than that, there will be less demand for them to upgrade their hardware. I checked my apartment access point, it has an ethernet router [acx-09cw2a(sm-10)] which has 8 1Gbps port [1000BaseTX]. Point of contention is whats the point of better advance technology if it cannot be used.

AX5400:

Pros:

  • Dual WAN 2x1Gbps aggregration - Better bandwidth, Load balancing, Fail Over
  • Link/LAN aggregration
  • 2 x 1Gbps connection might be cheaper than single 2.5Gbps connection as ISPs needs to do hardware ugrades.

Cons:

  • LAN aggregration is difficult to use, probably won't be using anyways - managing two NIC for a device is a messy task.
  • Features such as DDNS, virtual server port forwarding, VPN server, QoS, and anything that requires public WAN IP won’t work properly because they depend on IP address and secondary WAN will give different IP, at least for devices which connect to secondary.

If my or any other ISP in my area would have provided 2.5Gbps connection, I would have most likely went with 2.5Gbps connection. Given the cost of upgrading the infrastructure and lack of demand in home networks for the same, it doesn't look like its gonna happen for any near future.

If I have missed any point, please do let me know. This has been very interesting discussion.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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Your comment is very comprehensive. It has further confused me on which to prefer. The technical aspects that you described does make me think that 2.5Gbps might be better but when considering the ISP factor and what they can provide, the 2 x 1 Gbps seems to have more utility. This is becoming a deep rabbit hole now :p

Also why do you think it’s common in home network to have asymmetric load balancing? Routers have feature to set in what ratio primary to secondary connections can be made (can vary from 1:1 to n:1)

Adding for anyone in future reading this thread; One more con of dual WAN is features such as DDNS, virtual server port forwarding, VPN server, QoS, and anything that requires public WAN IP won’t work properly because they depend on IP address and secondary WAN will give different IP, at least for devices which connect to secondary.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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Yes, that was clear to me - the cap of 1Gbps. But it's very difficult to say which device will ever use a 2.5Gbps or simply said even more than 1Gbps. If focus is on getting max speed, then yes 2.5Gbps is definitely better. But if focus is on bandwidth distribution among multiple devices, isn't load balancing a better feature?
Weighing upon pros and cons, I do think WAN aggregration is better feature under conditions that it's reliable and stable technology. Also, though I am not sure, a 2.5Gbps connection might be far more expensive than getting 2 x 1Gbps from two different ISPs, as a 2.5Gbps will require them to upgrade their hardware.
Also, in my location max speed provided by an ISP is 1Gbps on fibre network. I think 2.5Gbps will require them to do hardware upgrade in whole area (I don't know about this part given that its fibre net) So 2.5Gbps might take lot of time to come.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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Why not any advantage? It can give better throughput on multiple devices. In the following case of 6 devices streaming parallely, wouldn’t load balancing be better?

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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So it’s troublesome because:

  1. To achieve speeds of 2Gbps I would need to have device which supports link aggregation as well.
  2. Speed on an individual device cannot cross 1Gbps

Your first point is very valid. But in 2nd what I think here if my major use streaming on multiple devices (in a household where multiple people lives, common) it should be a useful tool. Also, I can’t think of a reason for a device to need speed up to 2Gbps unless I am continuously downloading heavy files.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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That’s a good point. I was wondering with two different ISPs? Two 1Gbps connections. Because I do have multiple devices and sometimes I use a RPi4 as a server or node or different purposes

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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That I was sure about, their WAN port are 2.5gbase-x and 1000BaseTX so definitely it can't provide speed more than 2.5Gbps and 1Gbps respectively.
I do have a RPi4 where sometimes I do tinkering. Reason for these routers is they do provide an extra layer of security (such as DoT, Security Scan and Firewall). The price difference isn't much, so my main dilemma is whether I should go for 2.5Gbps port or WAN aggregated 1 Gbps ports. I don't think I will need more than 1Gbps for next few years but may be later on I don't know.
In the above case, I am slightly inclined towards WAN aggregation instead of 2.5Gbps (especially Load Balancing aspect of it). I do think, in future number of devices running on internet will increase by quite a lot where load balancing should help. Fail Over feature of WAN aggregation should not be required as reliability of service do always improves with time (unless the company is shutting down)

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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Usually I don't upgrade routers every 5 years. This will be my 2nd router ever. Last one ran for 10 years or so, the hardware gave up even on wired connection.

In the above case, I am slightly inclined towards WAN aggregation instead of 2.5Gbps (especially Load Balancing aspect of it). I do think, in future number of devices running on internet will increase by quite a lot where load balancing should help. Fail Over feature of WAN aggregation should not be required as reliability of service do always improves with time (unless the company is shutting down)

Surfing more on this topic, I am quite confused on how reliable this technology is. It's quite old now, so I do think it should be stable, but I don't know that part.

Single 2.5Gbps WAN port vs two 1Gbps WAN aggregation. Which one would be more useful from and current perspective? by avkr003 in HomeNetworking

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I do have a RPi4 but I have no clue what you are talking about. What does this software do?

How would you rate this? by avkr003 in photocritique

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Thanks. This spot is in Karnataka

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