yep, true.
btw, it means it's planned, but not on today's lunch time.Quote:
Originally Posted by lly
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yep, true.
btw, it means it's planned, but not on today's lunch time.Quote:
Originally Posted by lly
as asus is is using community repo (http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=244944&postcount=192) they are obligated to share the sdk
^np miron,lly, we'll wait
Thank you both for answers ;)
yeah tell that all the other thousands of companies :DQuote:
Originally Posted by !gm
but the SDK is not gpl'd right? which would mean they don't have to share that part? all the patches for linux etc are available in the archives so far.
But I guess broadcom is still not completely opensource:p
.102 got new drivers:
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.138.20
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:01.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.100.138.20
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:01.0 to 64
eth2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.100.138.20
PS: Why i cannot notice almost any difference from coverage on WL-500GP vs RT-N16 vs RT-N66U?
you'll notice a 5 Ghz coverage :D
beside that - don't you get a stronger signal in "bad" locations?
take a look at memory consumption.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
lsmod | grep wl
I did it on RT-N66U with Toastman f/w and I gotQuote:
Originally Posted by theMIROn
wl 2546736 0
igs 13616 1 wl
emf 17376 2 wl,igs
I mean it..Quote:
Originally Posted by ArCan
RT-N10 16Mb doesn't like overbloated 2,5Mb driver :)
for asus fw 3.1.0.3.90 it is:Quote:
Originally Posted by ArCan
it does differ quite a bit:pQuote:
wl 2772464 0
igs 17872 1 wl
emf 22688 2 wl,igs
and oleg on rt-n16:
theMIROn has a good point :pQuote:
wl 1619136 0
igs 17552 1 wl
emf 21248 2 wl,igs
Only a little in 2.4GHZ, didn't tested at 5GHZ yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by !gm
well, to say it the non technical way:Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
where the rt-n16 gives me 1 bar at the weakest spot in the house, the rt-n66u gives my 3 more: 4 out of 5:D
with 2.4 and dual band clients:)
I guess this router is not OK, waiting another to compare it. FTP could not pass 4mb/s... (vsftpd process is not used more than 10-20%)
The sensation i have here is that CPU is throttling, maybe heatsink is not mouted correctly, i really don't know...
Use InSSIder to see signal strenght please, bars are not so fidedign ;)
Thanks
nah that's the same thing mate :pQuote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
I'll check with channalyzer:cool:
Awesome, i found why FTP transfer rate was limited to 4mb/s, since im using a laptop with a 100MBIT NIC i knew perfectly that never could copy more than 10-11mb/s, the problem here was that samba could achieve that speed (10-11mb/s) but vsftpd couldn't, it was limited to 4mb/s, once i tested on a gigabit NIC i was able to copy 18mb/s. ;)
Don't know why but vsftpd does not achieve maximum of 100MBIT transfer rate, if anyone try could assist to this novel ;)
active or passive transfer?
Both, Active or Passive it's the same problem, the maximum that i was able to copy this way was 4.6mb/s ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by !gm
If possible try it and give me some feedback :P
Tks
I use WiFi between my router and NetworkMediaTank for looking movie from NAS connected to router.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
I have around 4 Mb/s with SAMBA and 6.5 Mb/s with NFS(TCP).
The condition in air is good and I have same results on both bands and with 20/40MHz of the wide.
I don't know why I can't get the better speed.
I can see 300 mbit/s and almost high level of signal.
But never see the speed higher that 6.5 Mb/s
My RT-N66U with Toastman f/w
and I'm using E2000 like bridge with Tomato connected to NMT via ethernet 100 full duplex
and I think I should have the speed close by 9-10 Mb/s... :-(
I never use RT-N66U with stock firmware and may be I will try it for to clear the situation.
It will happen the same, its not FW issue, my tests were via cable not wireless ;)
I measured the wifi strenght with a nice test setup:
- Only 1 router turned on at a time
- Download a file via wifi from a pc
- Put the wifi client very far away :p (about 7m trough 3 walls) so hardly any signal is captured from the client
- Set the Wi-Spy up at 2 meters distance from the router
Le RT-N16 with oleg @ a whopping 400mW:eek:
http://i40.tinypic.com/9vjyio.jpg
Le RT-N66u with asus fw 3.1.0.3.90 @ only 40mW:cool:
http://i44.tinypic.com/t4y52v.jpg
Apart from the fact those mW don't really do much, the rt-n66u has about 5dBm more strenght:D
btw, I drew a yellow line trough the average line measured by the software... since that line is near to invisible in the scaled down version of the image I drew the yellow line.
so the yellow line is about the average +-1 dBm I guess :)
Hi!
Somebody know how good Tomato support Gbit WAN and LAN with RT-N66U?
Did anybody the test of speed WAN or LAN with Tomato on RT-N66U?
Thank you.
P.S. I can't to find the reason why I can't to get the speed higher 10 Mb/s...
I'm not proffessional or expirienced user and looking for my mistakes with
configuration. ->
NAS TS-119P+ ----- ETHERNET ------- RT-N66U -------- WiFi ---------- 2 PC and 3 laptops
NAS and Router have GigaBit Ethernet connections.
But even I try downlad any file from NAS and use all 5 computers via WiFi at ones
THE SPEED BETWEEN NAS AND ROUTER NOT HIGHER THAN 10 MB/S
But each of PC's or Laptops can do it with 3-6 MB/s or sum of all downloads should be higher and like I count about 20 MB/S !
I'm looking for bottleneck in my configuration.
Gonna do some testing ;)
You don't need to!Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
JJ did another test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKevpqBqUU0#!
:D
and yet again he says "lets go ahead" a lot:o:p
Yeah yeah but those tests/performances are with an External Antena ASUS EA-N66 (costs almost the same as router) ;)
I would like to see the USB performance over 20MB/s read / write loooooool
I have comment the 3rd time on they're mural LOL
"Let's go ahead" then :D
And what about ETHERNET performance like in my configuration?Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
What do you think about GIGABIT ETHERNET to 450mbps WiFI?
Thank you.
P.S. I never use external HDD with USB connection with router, because I have NAS with gigabit ethernet.
Unfortunately nobody give me the clear information about the own results of tests.
Only bla-bla-bla and information from Google from other same theoretics :-)
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.
probably you should enable jumboframesQuote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
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
Hi, that was the USB transfer rate, i corrected to "USB transfer rate" lol :D Jumbo frames are enabled and they not affect the limited USB transfer rate...
Any news? Does lly has the RT-N66U already?
cat5 is also good enough for gigabit, although some shops sell bad cat5 cables.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
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:D
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 :eek:
I know, as I said: bad cables:DQuote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
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 :p
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:D
;)
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.
yep, because router's lan mtu is still 1500.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
We have one possible contributor in Moscow, but no news so farQuote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
about wireless transfer speed,
just got 150Mbps up/down on RT-N16 with intel 5300 and latest svn
I hope you mean 150Mpbs:pQuote:
Originally Posted by theMIROn
but yeah, those intel cards are awesome:)
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"
yep, 150 sureQuote:
Originally Posted by wpte
Step by step I will check each chain of my configuration.Quote:
Originally Posted by hggomes
I really appreciate the detailed advice. Thanks a lot.
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
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.
"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."
http://translate.google.com/translat...6u-part1.shtml