Say in a few decades time, if I am still around that long, I get a B4RN-style gigabit symmetric FTTP pipe. And everyone is going around in flying cars, finally.
My routers, a Firebrick FB2500 and an FB2700 are not that fast, I forget but I think the FB2700 might be rated at notional 350 Mbps routing (using who knows what size packets though), and the FB2500 at maybe 250 Mbps.
The new FB2900 is somewhat faster, can’t remember, but as I recall, the notional routing max throughout figure was somewhat below 1 Gbps.
So if one signs up for B4RN or I win the lottery and get AA to plumb in a BT FTTP Ethernet link for x million £/month, then what would I do for a router? An FB2900 would suddenly become a serious bottleneck. It seems more than a bit mad to suggest that a B4RN user buy an FB6000 at what £12k [?]
just to remove the bottleneck. Mind you, if paying £x million per month to BT for Ethernet over fibre then £12k doesn’t sound
quite so insane. Actually, no, it is still a bit mad.
I don’t understand why Firebrick has such a huge price gap between the FB2x00 and FB6xxx devices. A higher-throughput device, at a somewhat higher price would be attractive. Something with say with a faster CPU, or multi-core, if that is feasible from the point of view of the amount of software work and hardware work required. Or something with hardware assist for critical functions.
Of course, unless the lottery thing happens, in reality I am quite safe, because it will take so long before speed reaches these remote parts that Firebrick Ltd will have easily had enough time to come out with a new model by then, so quite safe.