New Asus RT-N66U Router

[hggomes]

Yeah tomato is working fine, WAN to LAN and LAN to LAN tests are > 700MBps, so that shouldn't be a factor.

In your specific case, speed could be limited by many factors:

1- QoS enabled (you should disable it)
2- Distance of computers to the AP (RT-N66U)
Are you at 2.4 or 5GHZ? What are the computers wireless NICs?
Are you wireless connected at what speed? 54? 150? 300? 450?
3- Cat6 ethernet cable installed? (Between RT-N66U and TS-119P+)
I believe it could be the problem, some Cat5 cables could connect at 1GBIT but performance its a mess. I had several problems with that, check your cable and replace it. Even if your cable is a Cat6 try a different one.
4- You should do the same tests via cable, computer (cable cat6) => RT-N66U => nas (cable cat6), that way you could know the maximum speed of your network.
You should have more than 50mb/s, then wireless could reach normal speeds. Your wireless speeds are being limited by the cable, for sure.

PS: RT-N66U maximum USB transfer rate reached by me was 17-18MB/s (read/write) in FTP and 15-16MB/s in Samba. It's not brilliant but its OK for a router, don't expect more than that from this hardware, i never thought it could reach those speeds considering the specs.

[theMIROn]

PS: RT-N66U maximum reached by me was 17-18MB/s (read/write) in FTP and 15-16MB/s in Samba. It's not brilliant but its OK for a router, don't expect more than that from this hardware, i never thought it could reach those speeds considering the specs.

probably you should enable jumboframes
main issue - MTU on lan interface, which is ok for bcm57xx ethernet driver (unlike et driver used in older, like RT-N16/N15U), but it's in bridge with wireless interface which can't do MTU > 1500
~year ago I got ~250Mbps with RT-N16 ftp without removed wireless and patched et driver

[hggomes]

Hi, that was the USB transfer rate, i corrected to "USB transfer rate" lol Jumbo frames are enabled and they not affect the limited USB transfer rate...

Any news? Does lly has the RT-N66U already?

[wpte]

3- Cat6 ethernet cable installed? (Between RT-N66U and TS-119P+)

cat5 is also good enough for gigabit, although some shops sell bad cat5 cables.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted...ed-pair_cables
I prefer cat5e cables for gigabit though... but when the cable is long I'll take cat6

Also I think the wireless transfer speed depends a whole lot on your client wifi adapter. I had a very shitty one in my laptop that couldn't even stream a mp3 file most of the time, yet it was branded as 802.11n, and it had a broadcom chip

[hggomes]

Personally I have had the chance to test CAT5 and CAT6 cables and these lasts are better. I tested 5 different CAT5 cables and none could achieve CAT6 speeds, not to mention that 3 of them could not do even do 100MBIT. Cat6 cables have higher bandwidth, so they are recommended to avoid problems on gigabit connections. On this right moment im connected with a CAT5(E) and Gigabit connection works fine, but i loose 6mb/s comparing with CAT6 cable.

We are not inside the CAT5 cables, so no one knows if it is a "good" or a "bad" cable, it's more safe buying CAT6, for sure you won't have any problems.

Now about the wireless nic N you talked, what model is? That's really weird, the best speeds that i could get was with Intel and Broadcom chips

[wpte]

Personally I have had the chance to test CAT5 and CAT6 cables and these lasts are better. I tested 5 different CAT5 cables and none could achieve CAT6 speeds, not to mention that 3 of them could not do even do 100MBIT. Cat6 cables have higher bandwidth, so they are recommended to avoid problems on gigabit connections.

We are not inside the CAT5 cables, so no one knows if it is a "good" or a "bad" cable, it's more safe buying CAT6, for sure you won't have any problems.

Now about the wireless nic N you talked, what model is? That's really weird, the best speeds that i could get was with Intel and Broadcom chips

I know, as I said: bad cables
I have cat5e cables when they're up to 3meter, easily max out gigabit, but longer than that I have cat6
all my cables are belkin btw. dunno, I usually trust belkin with cable stuff, other things... not that much

I had this one: http://www.azurewave.com/product_AW-NB047_1.asp
just horrible, absolutely horrible
now I have this beast: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...te-n-6300.html easily >100mbit/s on the rt-n66u for actual transfer speeds

[hggomes]

Are you sure Azurewave uses Broadcom chip? LOL
I have a Broadcom N (BCM4331 on chip) and a Intel 6300 N and my results are pretty the same.

[theMIROn]

Hi, that was the USB transfer rate, i corrected to "USB transfer rate" lol Jumbo frames are enabled and they not affect the limited USB transfer rate...

yep, because router's lan mtu is still 1500.

Any news? Does lly has the RT-N66U already?

We have one possible contributor in Moscow, but no news so far

about wireless transfer speed,
just got 150Mbps up/down on RT-N16 with intel 5300 and latest svn

[wpte]

just got 1500Mbps up/down on RT-N16 with intel 5300 and latest svn

I hope you mean 150Mpbs
but yeah, those intel cards are awesome

[hggomes]

ASUS reply to my email:

"Hello Hugo,

I apologize for the issues you are having with this router. Are you currently using .102 firmware? There was an issue when updating from .84 to .102 which is why firmware 102 was pulled from the website. However, 106 will be coming out within 2 days. I don’t believe 84 was officially released anyway so unless someone provide you with firmware .84 then this issue doesn’t pertain to you. Please give 106 a try when it is release on Wednesday or Thursday and let us know if you still experience issues.

Best Regards,
Mason"

[theMIROn]

I hope you mean 150Mpbs
but yeah, those intel cards are awesome

yep, 150 sure

[ArCan]

Yeah tomato is working fine, WAN to LAN and LAN to LAN tests are > 700MBps, so that shouldn't be a factor.

In your specific case, speed could be limited by many factors:

1- QoS enabled (you should disable it)
2- Distance of computers to the AP (RT-N66U)
Are you at 2.4 or 5GHZ? What are the computers wireless NICs?
Are you wireless connected at what speed? 54? 150? 300? 450?
3- Cat6 ethernet cable installed? (Between RT-N66U and TS-119P+)
I believe it could be the problem, some Cat5 cables could connect at 1GBIT but performance its a mess. I had several problems with that, check your cable and replace it. Even if your cable is a Cat6 try a different one.
4- You should do the same tests via cable, computer (cable cat6) => RT-N66U => nas (cable cat6), that way you could know the maximum speed of your network.
You should have more than 50mb/s, then wireless could reach normal speeds. Your wireless speeds are being limited by the cable, for sure.

PS: RT-N66U maximum USB transfer rate reached by me was 17-18MB/s (read/write) in FTP and 15-16MB/s in Samba. It's not brilliant but its OK for a router, don't expect more than that from this hardware, i never thought it could reach those speeds considering the specs.

Step by step I will check each chain of my configuration.
I really appreciate the detailed advice. Thanks a lot.

[Omega]

New firmware Asus RT-N66U_B1_3.0.0.3.108

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-N66U_B1/FW_RT_N66U_B1_3003108.zip

ASUS RT-N66U B1 Firmware Version 3.0.0.3.108 File Size 18,78 (MBytes) 2012.03.09 update

[hggomes]

From what i can see ASUS is not able to fix this router problems and new FWs bring new issues, 3rd party FWs are the way to go...

If we take a look on RT-N56U it was more than a year with WAN disconnects and i really don't know if its already fixed nowdays, i have send several emails with all kind of issues on different FWs versions to ASUS, if anyone has issues with this unit please report it to: networking_support@asus.com

This will help alot so that this unit work better with original firmware.

[hggomes]

"During the testing speed performance external hard drive, we are faced with another problem - if the NIC test PC technology enabled Jumbo Frames, the speed of writing to disk is significantly reduced."

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