So I have recently moved to a fiber internet connection with 1 GBPS internet speed, and I am facing issues with the internet being throttled/capped if I enable IPS. I do get a good 900mbps+ up and down if i turn off IPS. Its only throttling when i turn it on. I have it turned off for now, and feel very unsafe. Hence willing to spend to get this back on.
I understand that I will need a powerful CPU (probably quad core or more)? Some places I've read it should be 8 cores? And infact a few threads here recommend better clockspeed.
I am so confused.. Whats the final verdict... what kind of CPU do i need if I need to keep the IPS enabled, and still be able to obtain 1gbps bandwith at home.
Please note.. this is a home connection, at anytime only One or two users are connected. Hence I'd like to have the entire 1gbps bandwith on one PC not distributed over other users (as there's none).
I was looking at these three cpu's with 8 or more cores with a decent 3.2+ ghs speed (if thats what will make it work),
its the Intel Core i7-5960X or i7-7820X or the expensive i7-6900K. I understand AMD doesnt go well for this kind of setup.
Are these my only options? ANything else?
P.S. I have Sophos installed on a dedicated hardware, and dont plan to virtualize it... so no VM for me for Sophos
I was reading...
"Snort is essentially single-threaded, which means that out of the box it doesn’t make effective use of multiple CPUs (technically there is more than one thread in a snort process, but the others are used for housekeeping tasks that don’t require much CPU power, not for scaling traffic analysis across multiple CPUs). As of August 2011, Snort on a single-CPU can be tuned to examine 200-500Mbits/sec, depending on the size of the ruleset used."
So 4 or 8 cores doesnt make sense, right? How do i get 1gbps on a single connection then with IPS enabled?
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