Mikrotik RB4011 ZT perf benchmark maxed at 100Mbits/sec

[anthonws]

IIRC, there are other important factors like AES acceleration which is available in the RB5009 and not on the RB4011.

RB5009 is known to be able to drive more than 400mbps of traffic via ZeroTier with ease. So, it is not about lust for new gear.

Mikrotik ROS7 Zerotier- Low bandwidth

That 10X is darn close. So the RB5009 from Mikrotik can push >=450mbps aggregate across zerotier. The hAP ac2 can do about 45Mbps, it’s a slower Mhz but higher arm arch quad core vs the RB3011. This is on routeros 7.2.3 which shows a zerotier version of 1.6.6

Also, RB4011 vs RB5009 benchmarks are not comparable, given that RB4011 results were achieved using ROS6 and RB5009 using ROS7. The underlying changes are considerable and there has been a lot of debate around those metrics.