I am starting to build out my home network. My step dad does a lot of gaming and relies on fast internet. I want to switch out our router with a topton mini pc running opn sense. He wants to get a better and faster Asus gaming router. Is the speed increase on one of these “gaming routers” really that much? And is there some ways to compromise? I dont need extremely fast internet but i of course like it, but i would sacrifice some speed for security and self host features.

  • Prof_Ph03nix@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Most gaming is really low bandwidth, latency will be the big issue and an opnsense box will make very little, if any, difference in latency. You could have a 10mb connection with 10ms latency and it would be a better gaming experience than a 100Gb connection with 100ms latency.