Something occurred to me while discussing the balance 310x, which leads me to a question regarding the 2.5gbps throughput capability on the 310x and the MBX for that matter.
I haven’t tested this but does the 310x actually have the capability to move 2.5gbps (or even >1gbps) from multiple WAN’s to multiple LANs at any one time? In the support.cgi page the LAN is shown as having a 1Gbps connection (I beleive this is an internal connection from the LAN switch) and as such I am wondering how it is able to carry more than 1gbps. Is the support.cgi showing the wrong info and does it have a faster link speed internally than that which is shown?
LAN 1 and 2-8 are on separate Ethernet controllers, so you would need to do port aggregation between LAN 1 and one of the other LAN ports to achieve throughput greater than 1 Gbps in either direction.