What causes router differences and differences?

There are still many differences between different vrouters. So I have studied the differences between different vrouters and the factors that affect the performance of the vro. I hope this will help you for your reference.

Indicators that determine the router grade

Although it has already been said that the processor and memory determine the performance of the vro to a large extent, however, the indicators that determine the grade of a vro are not them, this is why the two parameters are often not marked in the main parameters of the product. What is the difference between a vro and a vro? The load capacity is also called the number of hosts. However, the number of bring-in devices is not a standardized data volume. It must be measured based on actual usage. For example, all people in Internet cafes are immersed in online chat and games, in addition, almost all data is differentiated from WAN ports through routers, so the load is very heavy. However, if it is a corporate network, most people are busy designing, writing reports, and making plans, at the same time, only a small number of people are using the network, and most of the data is flowing inside the enterprise network, so the router has a very low load, so you can load more clients at the same time. If the maximum load is 253, it makes no sense, because the maximum number of IP addresses that DHCP can allocate is 254, and the number of IP addresses that DHCP can use is 253, this kind of metric cannot be called. It is basically a hit person. Therefore, we need to look at the actual load capacity of a router, rather than the theoretical load capacity.

Because of the many uncertainties and spoofing nature of the load capacity, another indicator is also quite concerned, that is, throughput. Throughput refers to the amount of data that the router can process per second. This parameter refers to the throughput of the LAN-to-WAN. The measurement result is that when NAT is enabled and the firewall is disabled, use the Smartbits and Chariot test methods respectively. When using the Smartbits method, compare the test data of 64 byte packets and determine whether to compete. The Chariot test is best performed under multiple connections. Generally, you can select 100 pairs for the connection to see the differences between the products.

Causes of router price impact

After the above discussion, we can finally return to the question we want to answer: why are the prices of different vrouters so high?

Main reasons:

1. vrouters with different performance have powerful built-in processor and large memory capacity, so the cost is relatively high.
2. vrouters with different applications and strong performance can be used for networks with more loads, while low-end vrouters cannot.
3. different functions, although the basic functions are the same, but some vro differences also have built-in other more practical functions, such as professional firewall functions, VPN, so high technical requirements, the price will naturally increase.