Wireless Reviews

Routing Performance

Routing performance for the 110 using our standard test method is summarized in Table 1. It measured around 83 Mbps in the WAN to LAN and LAN to WAN tests. But total throughput dropped to 78 Mbps, due to the high variation shown in Figure 5. Although it's hard to see in the composite plot, throughput was nice and steady when running the unidirectional tests.

Test Description	WRT110 Throughput - (Mbps)
WAN - LAN	83.3
LAN - WAN	84.5
Total Simultaneous	78.1
Maximum Simultaneous Connections	136
Firmware Version	1.0.04

Table 1: Routing throughput

The Maximum Simultaneous Connections test of 136 connections is actually pretty good for a Linksys router. By comparison, the low-cost WRT150N and WRT160N two-antenna draft 11n routers, using Broadcom CPUs, have similar throughput, but support only 80 and 96 Maximum Simultaneous connections, respectively.

Figure 5: WRT110 Routing throughput composite plot

Use the Router Charts to see how the 110 stacks up against other routers.