Price of retailler here will be 127€, street price will be 160-190€ ;)
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Price of retailler here will be 127€, street price will be 160-190€ ;)
I know, I have to wait some more weeks - maybe months, but 150 Euro are to expensive for me...
http://geizhals.at/de/688826
It still isn't available everywhere. :rolleyes:
Not only for you ;)
the site still says 6 to 10 days, but I expect it next week, allthough I hope it will be end this week:D
Yes, if they'd need some testers I'm always up for that sort of stuff:)Quote:
Originally Posted by !gm
guess what I picked up?:D
rt-n16 firmware doesn't run so far tho... so I'm playing around a bit.Quote:
system type : Broadcom BCM5300 chip rev 1 pkg 0
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 74K V4.9
BogoMIPS : 299.82
wait instruction : no
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 64
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : yes
ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp
shadow register sets : 1
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available
unaligned_instructions : 12
dcache hits : 2147483648
dcache misses : 3883383797
icache hits : 2147483648
icache misses : 1087042855
instructions : 2147483648
First impression: it feels like a solid router, not lightweight and strong plastic:)
:D:D:D:D:D wuuuuhuuuu :D:D:D:D PARTY
We want a overclock > 1GHZ loooooooool :P
ok, I did some benchmarks with a proper usb harddrive. On a pc it can go 40MB/s:)
The filesystem I used was EXT3:cool:
first the intel nas benchmark:
http://i40.tinypic.com/10zqmat.jpg
and some fily copy benchmarks:
http://i43.tinypic.com/4uz2o2.jpg
I took the highest stable speed from a network tool, not the software itself. With highest stable I mean the same value for over 10 seconds... it tends to go up and down a lot, not a big difference, just very frequently:D
I noticed that samba has some low cpu usage on the rt-n66u... asus made some "optimal" settings it seems?:D
smb.cfg:
I don't really like those socket options imho... they usually slow stuff down on the rt-n16 for me.Quote:
[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
netbios name = RT-N66U
server string = RT-N66U
unix charset = UTF8
display charset = UTF8
log file = /var/log.samba
log level = 0
max log size = 5
security = SHARE
guest only = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
pam password change = no
null passwords = yes
force directory mode = 0777
force create mode = 0777
max connections = 5
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=32768 SO_SNDBUF=32768
obey pam restrictions = no
use spne go = no
client use spnego = no
disable spoolss = yes
host msdfs = no
strict allocate = No
bind interfaces only = yes
interfaces = lo br0
use sendfile = yes
map archive = no
map hidden = no
map read only = no
map system = no
store dos attributes = yes
dos filemode = yes
dos filetimes = yes
dos filetime resolution = yes
[backup]
comment = WD 5000AAJ External's backup
path = /tmp/mnt/backup
writeable = yes
edit: socket options off make no difference...
Wireless... well I didn't really test it properly yet. But since I'm king of the wifi hill in my neighborhood with my fancy 5GHz network, I can get some pretty nice speeds:D
I'm easily able to get over 70Mbit/s throughput, but my laptops cpu is the limiting factor (atom). as soon as I do something like that it will max out a core:D
pings are also really good on wifi: ~1.8ms very stable as well.
dd-wrt seems to have a build ready: ftp://dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSla...ig_RT-N66U.trx
beta still...
not sure If I'd want to check that out:p
I decided to install the download master on a harddisk, and guess what?
I discovered (but I guess someone else must have seen this as well) that asus uses ipkg to install this app.
I took a quick look at the ipkg.conf, and even a bigger suprise :D
by default they use the ipkg repository of the oleg packages:DQuote:
#Uncomment the following line for native packages feed (if any)
src/gz optware.oleg http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...g/cross/stable
src/gz optware.asus http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/ASUSWRT
dest /opt/ /
#option verbose-wget
Seems like asus favours oleg?:)
I played around with it a bit, but it doesn't work as well as on oleg:(
I installed samba35 instead of the build in samba and managed to add another 2MB/s on the windows 7 transfer speeds!:)
This is weird:
Version 3.1.0.3.90
Description The GPL (source code) of ASUS RT-N66U B1 for firmware version 3.1.0.3.90
File Size
298,6 (MBytes) 2012.02.02 update
Version 3.0.0.3.90
Description The GPL (source code) of ASUS RT-N66U B1 for firmware version 3.0.0.3.90
File Size
298,6 (MBytes) 2012.01.16 update
Version 3.0.0.3.72
Description ASUS RT-N66U B1 GPL for Firmware version 3.0.0.3.72
File Size
340 (MBytes) 2011.12.22 update
42MB less is a lot !?!?!?!?
I tried tomato today... hmm... imho it's a bit like dd-wrt, not my style at least.:)
I flashed back to the stock firmware in the end:D
Where did you buy the router?!
I am using Firmware Version:3.0.0.3.102 on the ASUS RT-N66U, and at first ipkg seemed to work well, I could install openssh, bash and a couple of other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpte
But as soon as I rebooted some changes disappeared which was to be expected since I have not yet found how to save volatile changes.
Did you make some progress on the matter or found more information on it ?
Mektub
You can try use flashfs if available on that fw, or wait for TheMiron & lly fw since i'm not sure that other fws can use it ;)
Thanks, hggomes. No flashfs.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
You are right, I will wait.
Mektub
I had the same problem, no idea how to fix it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mektub
the asus firmware is still quite a bit locked down, and requires different rights for some files.
That's really bad news, ASUS should be shame of such anoying FW problems from the beginning and we don't know how much more will last, it's riddiculous that 3rd party FWs work better / more stable than the official ASUS FW.
Only the HW part its good here, what a disapointment ASUS software development, specially from a "High End" product support, 150€ its alot for a router with so much problems :(
If we take a look in the past we can see the RT-N56U example, that at this current date continues with random WAN disconnects and other problems never solved by ASUS so far, it was a 3rd party FW from Padavan that fixed it and others more. I'm afraid thats the same destiny of RT-N66U development will be, a real fiasco. :eek:
well it runs stable mr gomes :pQuote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
it's just that it's locked down. also the mounting of the opt partition is not like in oleg or any other wrt firmware.
instead of using a partition asus uses a folder on the drive as mountpoint. since this firmware is ment for people that don't use alternative firmwares it is the correct choice, since they won't know how to make partitions etc.
it's the easiest, and a sufficient solution for this group of people.
the firmware is still a bit beta-ish, but still, most of it works. as an engineer you can test a lot, but not everything. real feedback comes in as soon as a product is released. and you can see asus is working on it.
so I really do have to defend asus here on this: the firmware is quite allright, and is perfect for the market (people) the firmware was designed for.
so far it hasn't crashed, or anything, so I'm happy with it so far:D
Yeah mister WPTE ;) I'm talking based on previous routers like RT-N56U, i just hope that things could be better... But i dont really know if that will happen ;)
Starting from the problems on the first RT-N66U units... It tells too much :eek:
Are there any alternative firmwares out for the router?
Here you have:
http://tomato.groov.pl/index.php?dir...V-EN%2FRT-N66U
Interesting, tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-085V-AIO.trx FW :P
Awesome.. btw how much NVRAM are you left with after installing this?Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
not a lot.... in fact you have to reset the entire nvram when you installed it, because initially you don't have enough room.Quote:
Originally Posted by shantanugoel
tomato and dd-wrt require too much nvram it seems:)
Thanks. I read on tomato forums though that victek builds have a method which increases the nvram space available on some routers (He says that total available is 128k but only 32k is mapped and his builds can auto detect and change mapping or something. His RT-n16 build already can change this to 60k.) Hope this change comes to all tomato builds and can be used for rt-n66u as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpte
Any progress-updates for the http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/ firmware on the N66U?
Not yet. It requires Broadcom SDK newer than 5.100, currently we use 5.60.Quote:
Originally Posted by thE_29
quoted for the new page. Also it seems that tomato uses ddwrt optware feed. Does anyone know if that is fully compatible with tomato? Waiting for the oleg/lly/themiron etc's work to start on n66u so that it can be as awesome as my current wl500w :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shantanugoel
What SDK version is Tomato FW running? It seems stable so far, couldn't you use they're repository / drivers? It's being a little bit painful having the router and not the FW :PQuote:
Originally Posted by lly
Thanks ;)
5.100.138, but it is not latest SDKQuote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
Unfortunately, not. Take a look at Toastman post - DRIVER FOR THE RT-N16Quote:
It seems stable so far, couldn't you use they're repository / drivers? It's being a little bit painful having the router and not the FW :P
Additionally, neither theMIROn, nor me, haven't RT-N66U for experiments yet.
Ok, we will have to wait ;)
RT-N66U is available now worldwide, almost every store have it, prices go from 140€ to 220€ ;)
PS: DD-WRT have access to Broadcom SDK right? Why they have and others don't?
Yes. Only I know - they(DD-WRT) are commercial structure and sign NDA with some Broadcom licensor.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
Both us & Tomato are non-profit community and Broadcom never want to speak with private person.
So in that case how would this be solved? Wait for what or for who? How the actual 5.60 was available to you? And 5.100 to tomato? Aren't drivers available on OpenSource FW available on ASUS site? Even it's not 100% stable i think it was a good idea releasing your FW like Tomato did, it's better than nothing...
they are using the driver from netgear
Code:This driver was extracted out of the GPL source package for NETGEAR WNDR4500
It contains the Broadcom wireless driver 5.100.138
This driver includes firmware version 666.2
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/WNDR4500-V1.0.0.40_1.0.10_src.tar.zip
WNDR4500-V1.0.0.40_1.0.10_src/src/wl
Thanks, i've seen that's the oldest version:
For Firmware Version 1.0.0.40, 1.0.0.50, 1.0.0.58, 1.0.0.70, 1.0.0.103
This is last version, maybe drivers are more recent:
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/fil...21_src.tar.zip
What's New in Release 5.110.9?
Based on driver version 5.100.107
CFE: Add a new clock combination : 530, 212, 106
CLM update for 3x3 - Create US/61 based on US/53 power levels
Rename some local variables to comply with shadow compiler warnings
Netgear creation date: 02.02.2012
Asus creation date: 10.02.2012
wl_ap.o
wl_apsta.o
wl_sta.o
Anyone knows if ASUS opensource contains drivers as well? I checked and yes it has drivers, so why not use them? If they're used on stock FW...
^we talked about 5.100.138, i think thats more recent...Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
read toastmans post that a netgear driver may not suit the rt-n66u, but tomato on the rt-n66u seems to be stable ^so it's worth a try?
I would say YES :P
We are awaiting for ASUS.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
From ASUS.Quote:
How the actual 5.60 was available to you?
I don't know. Unfortunately, main TomatoUSB developer teddy_bear too busy for last months :(Quote:
And 5.100 to tomato?
Sorry, SDK upgrade requires too much efforts. We simply has no time to do it twice.Quote:
Even it's not 100% stable i think it was a good idea releasing your FW like Tomato did, it's better than nothing...
Last SDK is 5.110. Whats New available to SDK subscribers(ASUS, Netgear, etc.) only.