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Should you enable hardware acceleration on your router? My childhood friend upgraded to Gigabit but only ran 400 Mbps, and was controlled by his parents for half a month
My childhood friend upgraded to gigabit broadband, but the speed test was only 400 Mbps. The broadband technician's metering modem was directly connected to 940, so I told him to switch routers. I remotely checked their Mercury backend: it was a parental control set for my son's tablet, but the hardware NAT acceleration was disabled and reverted to the CPU software forwarding. Where are the switches hidden in each brand, and which features fail when the acceleration is turned on? This article explains everything clearly....
