I have a Flint 2 and get decent Wireguard speeds. I will soon be upgrading my internet to 750 Mbps symmetrical fiber. I am looking for the router that will pass through a commercial VPN using Wireguard as efficiently as possible. According to the specs, the Flint 2 is faster for Wireguard than the Flint 3 or 3e. Am I reading the specs right? At this point in time, I don’t have any devices that use Wifi 7, so my only interest would be if Wireguard was faster/more efficient.
It doesn’t matter as much if you are just passing through the wireguard connection - it is just traffic to the router CPU. Is your router going to act as a wireguard router or wireguard endpoint itself?
After reading again, when you said commercial you were talking about a VPN service and not a company-provided wireguard instance. In that case, you might not get full wire speed from either router, but ime you won’t see a huge difference between the 2 and 3 in practice. I have no idea on the 3e as I don’t have one of those.
for packet steering, not really for offloading since that passes to a other chip
for better overhead, overheads also cause cpu usage.
So with this you can archive faster speeds than a flint 3.
If your isp speed is 700mbps, don't expect wireguard to reach 700mbps , thats not how it works there is still some overhead.
And also another thing which also adds complexity is the Flint 2 get around 800-900mbps for me on wireguard on a 1gb connection, I believe the specs also say this, but you have 700mbps, compare that to that max speed of flint 3 and the difference becomes the same or extremely small, the flint 2 shines especially on 1gb and above can be 200mbps in speed difference easily, compared to the Flint 3.
Thanks for the responses. It seems that even if I upgrade to a 1Gbps connection, the Flint 2 will be a better choice. Since I already own one, there’s no point to upgrade until I have devices that can take advantage of the Wifi 7 features.
, thats not how it works there is still some overhead.