New Asus RT-N16 Router

[hggomes]

This is the unreleased new router from ASUS, RT-N16 will arrive market in a few months.

Here the specs:

CPU: Broadcom BCM4718 533MHZ (best from class)
RAM: 128MB (2x 64MB)
ROM: 32MB
ETH: 4x GIGABIT (LAN) 1x GIGABIT (WAN)
USB Ports: 2
WLAN: Dual Radio N

I know two persons who will be very happy with this

[hggomes]

More pictures:

[hggomes]

Can anyone connect wireless at 300MBit with OLEG FW? I only connect 130MBit and with DD-WRT i can get 300MBit.

[wpte]

Can anyone connect wireless at 300MBit with OLEG FW? I only connect 130MBit and with DD-WRT i can get 300MBit.

you are aware that those speed indicators for wireless is usually mumbo jumbo?

Real stress tests will provide you with the real maximum bandwidth if your wlan card is fully compatible.

otherwise try playing around with these settings in the advanced wireless config:
Regulatory Mode
Enable WMM

[ecaddict]

A few posts ago I've noted that NFS outperforms Samba by a factor of 2 (I can copy from the router over 12 MB/s using NFS with UDP) and writing speed is higher than reading.

Then Pedro83 described (confirmed) a similar behaviour (writing speed is higher than reading) with FTP and mac os x.

NFS is a good protocol but still it's just hard to believe that it's so much faster than other protocols.
Shortly after it occurred to me that NFS using TCP is also not performing too well.
All this points to the direction that there is some performance issue when TCP is used.

But what is it, any guesses?

I noticed using a capture that router advertises a window size of 4128 (all the time) and my PC either 1002 or 1313. Isn't that too small (for a gigabit ethernet)? Can that be the issue?

[wpte]

A few posts ago I've noted that NFS outperforms Samba by a factor of 2 (I can copy from the router over 12 MB/s using NFS with UDP) and writing speed is higher than reading.

Then Pedro83 described (confirmed) a similar behaviour (writing speed is higher than reading) with FTP and mac os x.

NFS is a good protocol but still it's just hard to believe that it's so much faster than other protocols.
Shortly after it occurred to me that NFS using TCP is also not performing too well.
All this points to the direction that there is some performance issue when TCP is used.

But what is it, any guesses?

I noticed using a capture that router advertises a window size of 4128 (all the time) and my PC either 1002 or 1313. Isn't that too small (for a gigabit ethernet)? Can that be the issue?

Samba is quite a difficult protocol, the data needs to be processed more when it's send, so the router is the bottleneck when sending.
Anyway, I've installed samba 3 which allows sometimes higher speeds compared to samba 2.

the difference between tcp and udp is small... udp is better for streaming since no check is done whether the packets have arrived for example.

At the moment the jumbo frames (the ones you're talking about) cannot be set to any other value due to the drivers
Does it matter much?
Several discussions state that bigger frames only increase something like... 5% over gigabit. but since the samba speeds don't even come close to 900Mbit/s it's quite a small change I guess

[Serge_K]

RAM: 64MB (2x 32MB)

Are you sure? There should be more RAM.
http://www.computex.biz/asustek/defa...d=24801&pcode=

[hggomes]

Are you sure? There should be more RAM.
http://www.computex.biz/asustek/defa...d=24801&pcode=

You're right, my mistake. Corrected

[Serge_K]

You're right, my mistake. Corrected

Now I`m happy too. Thanks for pictures!

[hggomes]

Yeah, we all are No problem. This is a really powerful router, im sure OLEG FW will come soon

[rod178]

Looks like an upgrade of a WL-500W.
- same old case
+ lots of RAM
+ fast cpu
+ GigaBit LAN


Questions, if anyone can answer:
1) Does this router support 5GHz N wireless?
2) Can it transmitt on two wireless channels concurrently ie like WRT610N?
3) Does it have a JTAG port? Omission would be disappointing!!!
4) Are the aerials detachable?

[hggomes]

Looks like an upgrade of a WL-500W.
- same old case
+ lots of RAM
+ fast cpu
+ GigaBit LAN


Questions, if anyone can answer:
1) Does this router support 5GHz N wireless?
2) Can it transmitt on two wireless channels concurrently ie like WRT610N?
3) Does it have a JTAG port? Omission would be disappointing!!!
4) Are the aerials detachable?

1. Yes.
2. Yes.

Simultaneous dual-band operation provides data rates of up to 300 Mbps in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands
Worldwide DFS certification to provide 27 channels in the 5 GHz band

3. Yes.
4. Yes.

[wpte]

OH YES!
me like this thing a lot!

I mean... finally PROPER draft N wireless and a heatsink on the CPU so it doesn't need to be underclocked
the additional ram is great as well...
I bet they made it especially for us

I think however that they only used a faster cpu to support better dataflow from the wlan card, since the 300mhz cpu in the wl-500w is a bottleneck now and then.

I might be buying this thing, even without oleg support (so far).

Thanks asus for listening to the real fans for a time

[protteus]

Hello....first post

Can´t access ionline.pt and correiomanha.pt from netcabo Lisbon with this router (rt n16) with Teddy bear´s Tomato.

Yesterday all was fine with asus wl500gp with tomato victek.

Replaced now with WL500gp, everythings fine again.


Any idea


P:S (Tomato w/ default config)

[hggomes]

Have you tried opening those pages on RT-N16 with other FW? ASUS Original for example....

Hello....first post

Can´t access ionline.pt and correiomanha.pt from netcabo Lisbon with this router (rt n16) with Teddy bear´s Tomato.

Yesterday all was fine with asus wl500gp with tomato victek.

Replaced now with WL500gp, everythings fine again.


Any idea


P:S (Tomato w/ default config)