Hi everyone!
I recently successfully traced some network issues I was having in Counter Strike back to my QBittorrent client having too many open connections. Global maximum was set to around 500, with a 100 max per torrent. This caused major jitter and packetloss in-game.
My current router is an Asus N18U which has Asus-Merlin on it.
The issues kept coming back even with a smaller number of open connections to the point I had to shut down the client.
I can’t remeber having these kinds of issue on Windows (current system CachyOS wit latest kernel), but I can ne wrong.
For what kind of specs should I be looking in a router for this kind of task? Would a MikroTik hEX refresh (upgraded RAM and CPU) be enough or overkill?
Thanks!
Wifi isn’t that important to me, since I would keep my old one and use it as a brigde for phones. All other hardware (pihole, etc.) would be connected with an ethernet cable. I haven’t considered VPNs as of yet. My only consideration is it handling a lot of traffic or at least the traffic I currently have. Having to turn things off just to play a game is kinda stupid…
Where I live, there is no gigabit infrastructure :-/ I am stuck with 120 Mb/s for the forseeable future. 600-800Mb/s is plenty for me.