New Asus RT-N16 Router

[xplay]

That can involve only the gray market!
Officially isn't yet released on distribution channels, so...

I can confirm , in Romania is available at :
RT-N16 ASUS Netw SuperSpeed N Gigabit multifunctional WLAN Router with USB printer sharing $141,60 (no taxes included)

I see it with my eyes when i visited my friend at work ,and it`s available on an legit market distribution chanel !
My friend is workind on retail shop who distributed 80% Asus product !

[Serpent]

Anyway, from now on it will be available in all countries and territories!

[Antiloop]

the first Asus RT-N16 units have arrived at my company

dutch people can order them directly via email sales@vanboekel.net

the pricing is 135 euro including 19% VAT



here some details:

firmware version 1.0.0.6

cat /proc/cpuinfo

system type		: Broadcom BCM4716 chip rev 1
processor		: 0
cpu model		: MIPS 74K V4.0
BogoMIPS		: 238.59
wait instruction	: no
microsecond timers	: yes
tlb_entries		: 64
extra interrupt vector	: no
hardware watchpoint	: yes
ASEs implemented	: mips16 dsp
VCED exceptions		: not available
VCEI exceptions		: not available

unaligned_instructions	: 2
dcache hits		: 2147483648
dcache misses		: 3543136790
icache hits		: 2147483648
icache misses		: 1605460392
instructions		: 2147483648

uname -a

Linux (none) 2.6.22 #153 Tue Jun 23 16:25:53 CST 2009 mips unknown

[wpte]

BogoMIPS : 238.59

meaning it's running at 238mhz?

I mean my cpu at the wl-500w is running at 299mhz and says 299bogomips.

maybe because of the different kernels

[al37919]

bogomips != cpu freq
have a look in the wikipedia

[wpte]

bogomips != cpu freq
have a look in the wikipedia

I know, but the bogomips are lower than my wl-500w!

[wpte]

just got my own rt-n16...
and it's quite good so far, alltough I think the firmware can be improved

list of processes:

  PID  Uid        VSZ Stat Command
    1 0          2444 S   /sbin/preinit 
    2 0               SW< [kthreadd]
    3 0               SWN [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 0               SW< [events/0]
    5 0               SW< [khelper]
   22 0               SW< [kblockd/0]
   48 0               SW  [pdflush]
   49 0               SW  [pdflush]
   50 0               SW< [kswapd0]
   51 0               SW< [aio/0]
  587 0               SW< [mtdblockd]
 1801 0          2452 S   httpd eth0 
 1802 0           860 S   dproxy -d -c /tmp/dproxy.conf 
 1806 0          1780 S   udhcpd /tmp/udhcpd.conf 
 1811 0          2296 S   upnp -D -W eth0 
 1814 0          1472 S   /bin/eapd 
 1818 0          1924 S   nas 
 1820 0          1128 S   igmp eth0 
 1825 0               SW< [khubd]
 1856 0          2660 S   u2ec 
 1860 0          2660 S   u2ec 
 1862 0          2660 S   u2ec 
 1863 0          1172 S   lpd 
 1878 0          1568 S   lld2d br0 
 1879 0          1744 S   /usr/sbin/wanduck 
 1889 0          2728 S   /bin/wps_monitor 
 1890 0          1748 S   infosvr br0 
 1891 0          2428 S   ots 
 1892 0          2448 S   watchdog 
 1897 0               Z   [ntp]
 1903 0          1756 S   networkmap 
 1978 0          1728 S   udhcpc -i eth0 -p /var/run/udhcpc0.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc
 1999 0          1472 S   syslogd -m 0 -O /tmp/syslog.log -b 0 
 2001 0          2428 S   ntp 
 2042 0               SW< [scsi_eh_1]
 2043 0               SW< [usb-storage]
 2059 0          2088 S   /sbin/vsftpd 
 2064 0          6788 S   /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /tmp/samba/lib/smb.c
 2066 0          4868 S   /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D -s /tmp/samba/lib/smb.c
 2067 0          6788 S   /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /tmp/samba/lib/smb.c
 2110 0          7088 S   /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /tmp/samba/lib/smb.c
 2157 0          5412 S   /apps/bin/dms /shares/DMSRoot RT-N16 00:26:18:A1:3C:F
 2158 0          5412 S   /apps/bin/dms /shares/DMSRoot RT-N16 00:26:18:A1:3C:F
 2159 0          5412 S   /apps/bin/dms /shares/DMSRoot RT-N16 00:26:18:A1:3C:F
 2160 0          5412 S   /apps/bin/dms /shares/DMSRoot RT-N16 00:26:18:A1:3C:F
 2166 0          5896 R   ./rtorrent 
 2168 0           336 S   ./dmathined /shares/dmathined 
 2172 0          2224 S   giftd --home-dir=/shares/dmathined/Download --local-d
 2182 0          1476 S   sh -c ps > /tmp/syscmd.log  
 2183 0          1476 R   ps 

and yes the download master still uses rtorrent to download torrents, still rather slow than normal... BUT faster than the wl-500 series.

disk speeds I tested so far with a 6GB SD card (with 20/15 mb/s speeds)
all under windows 7 64bit final version, ftp and samba didn't differ in speed... ftp was usually worse than samba.


more pics and stuff: http://wpte.kicks-ass.net/news.php?readmore=13

QoS should be turned off because it just kills your speed on anything...
to make it "off" just don't use it, completely empty all settings... kinda fail from asus

[eemdz]

One key question is that whether this router uses BCM4718 or BCM4716. With BCM4718, it is possible to have third party firmware (really hoping oleg can create one for us) to support dual band wireless N. On the other hand, with BCM4716, it only supports 2.4Ghz band.

/proc/cpuinfo indicates the chip is BCM4716, and the name of this router, RT-N16 seems to point to BCM4716 being used. However, there are photos with BCM4718. Furthermore, according to a Chinese web site, http://neture.homeip.net/digiland/vi...php?id=882&p=1, the CPU is actually BCM4718, but Broadcom tag the BCM ID to 4716. Also, the page pointed out that BCM4716 does not support USB ports.

So unless Asus put in a VIA USB chip (or a USB management chip of some sort), BCM4718 seems to be a more logical choice (well, everyone prefers BCM4718). Furthermore, BCM4718 and BCM4716 have different pin count (so you cannot just replace BCM4718 with BCM4716 without some re-arrangement of the board).

The only real way to tell is to open the router... Not sure anyone would be willing to do that though.

I really hope BCM4718's ID is incorrectly tagged so /proc/cpuinfo reports BCM4716. However, even if Asus did put in BCM4718, we still need a guru like oleg to enable dual band wireless N.