Hello,
Prospective B One buyer here. I want to confirm, the B One supports Bonjour forwarding correct? It is listed in the user manual. But the user manual also talks about KVM and Docker support, which per Peplink website is not supported.
I’m also curious to hear if users are hitting 1 Gbps with VLANs/firewall rules/content blocking on. Or is the 1 Gbps only achieved with out of the box settings?
Thanks in advance for the replies.
@beagle.b.scout B One does support Bonjour Forwarding, which I just checked from our lab unit (firmware 8.4.1).
BTW, I went through the B One online user manual but I do not see where it stated about the KVM and Docker support. Can you share the source of B One user manual that you were referring to?
About the 1Gbps router throughput inquiry, you may check on the details from the disclaimer from the product comparison page.
Hello,
Thanks for the prompt reply! I really appreciate it. Glad to hear it supports Bonjour forwarding.
I found the user manual at the B One product page:
User manual at bottom of page:
To be fair it says those features are for Media Fast routers. But above there is also a section of edge computing, which I know is not supported via a comparison page. Just a little confusing. Thanks for a link to a more updated user manual!
I’ve ordered a B One, excited to put it to use!
@beagle.b.scout thanks for the catch, we have updated the URL on the product and firmware download page to the updated B One - Online user manual. 
Am also considering the B One and also wondered about how the gigabit speeds hold up when multiple features are configured. How’s it been working out for you? (I think the B One has a faster CPU than the Balance 20x, but not sure.)
I can’t speak to the Balance 20x speed comparison, but for the most part the gigabit speeds hold up after configuration. I configured a number of VLANs, firewall rules, Bonjour forwarding, UDP Relay, some local DNS records (to block certain traffic), and Intrusion Detection/DOS Prevention enabled. I still hit ISP max speeds of 940 Mbps per speedtest with this configuration.
I did try some content blocking and that did drop max speeds by 200-300 Mbps. I did not extensively test as it was just a feature I was curious about. I decided I did not need it at this time and did not want the performance hit. Given the inspection involved in content blocking I am not too surprised that this had an impact.
I have not tried any VPN features, though I expect putting the router as a VPN client would slow it down. Most personal VPN providers cannot hit gigabit so this is not too surprising. The Peplink comparison page indicates that their VPN implementation cannot hit gigabit speeds on this router. I would be curious if the VPN server function of router would slow local traffic down. I may test that at some point but I don’t have a strong use case right now.
Thanks man, very useful info. I think I’ll pick one up.
yes, the CPU is faster. newer architecture and more than double the clock speed, its probably 2-3 faster.
