QUOTE(remeron @ Mar 26 2016, 11:10 AM)
Hello, I was just upgraded to Time 500mbps and have to change my router. Currently using Asus RT-N12HP at the max it does on LAN is 100mbps

Thinking of getting the Mikrotik RB951G-2HND.
Sorry for the noob question, but does this support 500mbps over LAN? And how fast is it's wifi? 300mbps?
RB951G-2HND won't be good enough.
As far as Mikrotik's routing speed is concerned, the rule of thumb that I go by is half of what is stated by Mikrotik for the 25ip filter rules test for 1518 Byte packet size. This is kinda based on
IMIX applied to Mikrotik's performance results and my laziness. It's easier to take half than to do a spreadsheet.
So based on that, the 951G and RB2011 are only good enough for about 350mbps. The hAP AC for 480mbps and the RB3011 for 1.2gbps.
Also bear in mind that, if I'm not wrong, Mikrotik's tests do not include NAT so take another 25% off that. I don't know what version of ROS the tests were performed on so I don't know if it included the performance benefits of fastpath and fasttrack.
On the
fastrack wiki page, it mentions the RB2011 jumping from 360 to 890mbps with fastrack.
Routing performance varies depending on many things. If you're not going to be playing with firewalls, QOS, VPNs or VLANs then it's much cheaper to get an NAT hardware accelerated router like the TP-Link WDR4300 (claimed 800mbps) or an Edgerouter Lite. (I don't actually recommend the TPLink.)
If you're going with Mikrotik, I'd probably say at least the RB3011 (plus cost of wifi AP) for 500mbps. Unless Mikrotik can come up with more performance enhancements for the RB2011 or hAp AC.
More reading:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=86591http://michael.stapelberg.de/Artikel/fiber7_ubnt_erliteAs for WiFi, RB951G-2HnD is dual chain (2x2 MIMO), max 300mbps N. hAP AC is triple chain (3x3 MIMO), max 450mbps N, 1200mbps AC.
One more thing, hardware accelerated NAT usually comes with its own set of caveats or limitations like using certain features will disable hw NAT so you have to check first.
This post has been edited by soonwai: Mar 27 2016, 01:31 AM