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[a5m]

When setting the tx power through SSH or telnet what is the value that equals 23.50 dBm? For example 106 = 25 dBm and 114 = 27 dBm, so what is it for 23.50 dBm?

 

[ColinTaylor]

@ghysler I would expect that behaviour from a N16. Myself and others have observed the same effect, on the N66U at around 130+Mbps. The N16 has a weaker CPU then the N66.

Whilst downloading at these speeds, connections to the router (GUI and SSH) becomes unresponsive, but LAN to LAN and LAN to WAN is largely unaffected.

I'd speculate that setting up QOS might improve the situation, but I haven't tried it myself.

Edit: There's a review of the N16 here (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...16-gigabit-n-router-reviewed?showall=&start=4) where it states the maximum throughput as ~140Mbps.

 

[jrmwvu04]

When setting the tx power through SSH or telnet what is the value that equals 23.50 dBm? For example 106 = 25 dBm and 114 = 27 dBm, so what is it for 23.50 dBm?

It just increments by 1/4 db if I remember right. So..

106 = 25
107 = 25.25
108 = 25.5

..etc

edit: so 100 if I'm right.

 

[john9527]

Hardware acceleration is enabled in the router's settings, I've checked. Also I can not recall having this issue with previous versions, although I have not tried to go back yet.

Make sure you haven't enabled an option that will automatically disable hardware acceleration....any of the QoS options, IP Traffic or attaching a USB modem will turn it off.
If you have and change any of those options from on to off, reboot afterward to be safe and make sure HW acceleration is re-enabled.

 

[punchsuckr]

@john9527 Hi John.. can there be any configuration issue with openvpn that browsing is not possible over 4G/LTE while it works perfectly well when i fall back to 3G on my iphone??

 

[john9527]

@john9527 Hi John.. can there be any configuration issue with openvpn that browsing is not possible over 4G/LTE while it works perfectly well when i fall back to 3G on my iphone??

Sorry, I must be a little slow tonight....can you provide a little more detail?
Connect to OpenVPN server via the iphone internet, or using wireless to be an OpenVPN client, or using the iphone as a modem?

 

[punchsuckr]

Sorry, I must be a little slow tonight....can you provide a little more detail?
Connect to OpenVPN server via the iphone internet, or using wireless to be an OpenVPN client, or using the iphone as a modem?

Connecting to the openvpn server on my n66u from an iphone over 3G/4G LTE using the openvpn app.


I found a couple of threads with probably the same issue like this one below but with deads ends-
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=19817

Edit: whats weird is the openvpn connection establishes very quickly and imessages/whatsapp works just fine even on 4g but if i try to go to a website then pages cant be displayed. Web browsing is fine if i switch to 3g.

 

[john9527]

Connecting to the openvpn server on my n66u from an iphone over 3G/4G LTE using the openvpn app.


I found a couple of threads with probably the same issue like this one below but with deads ends-
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=19817

Edit: whats weird is the openvpn connection establishes very quickly and imessages/whatsapp works just fine even on 4g but if i try to go to a website then pages cant be displayed. Web browsing is fine if i switch to 3g.

Sounds like you found it and it is indeed something on the iphone end with 4G. My contribution...try adding these statements to the custom config on the router and see if it makes a difference.

mtu-disc maybe
push "mtu-disc maybe"

 

[punchsuckr]

Sounds like you found it and it is indeed something on the iphone end with 4G. My contribution...try adding these statements to the custom config on the router and see if it makes a difference.

mtu-disc maybe
push "mtu-disc maybe"

Nope no difference. Guess will just have to use 3g if i do use vpn.

18e1 working beautifully well btw. Thanks for all your work!

 

[punchsuckr]

Sounds like you found it and it is indeed something on the iphone end with 4G. My contribution...try adding these statements to the custom config on the router and see if it makes a difference.

mtu-disc maybe
push "mtu-disc maybe"

@john9527 Got it to work using TCP instead of UDP!! Performance is much better overall as well.

EDIT: Editing this instead of adding another post, I am noticing that the nvram usage is fluctuating by a few bytes without me changing anything in the settings.. is this normal? I haven't set any storage location to it.
Won't this wear it down rather quick depending on its quality?

 

[ColinTaylor]

@john9527I am noticing that the nvram usage is fluctuating by a few bytes without me changing anything in the settings.. is this normal? I haven't set any storage location to it.

The only thing obvious that I can see are the following variables which are updated every time someone logs in or out of the GUI.

login_port
login_timestamp
login_ip

Won't this wear it down rather quick depending on its quality?

Short answer - No. (this has been discussed many times before)

 

[john9527]

EDIT: Editing this instead of adding another post, I am noticing that the nvram usage is fluctuating by a few bytes without me changing anything in the settings.. is this normal? I haven't set any storage location to it.
Won't this wear it down rather quick depending on its quality?

There are many things that are constantly being updated in 'nvram'....but it's not really 'nvram'. All of the read/write activity occurs in a copy of the nvram that is kept in RAM, but it's only committed to the flash at certain times/events.

EDIT: This is why you have to do an 'nvram commit' if you are manually making changes to the nvram vars.....to actually write the change to the flash.

 

[punchsuckr]

There are many things that are constantly being updated in 'nvram'....but it's not really 'nvram'. All of the read/write activity occurs in a copy of the nvram that is kept in RAM, but it's only committed to the flash at certain times/events.

oh alright..! Thanks for the clarification.

 

[punchsuckr]

The only thing obvious that I can see are the following variables which are updated every time someone logs in or out of the GUI.

login_port
login_timestamp
login_ip

Short answer - No. (this has been discussed many times before)

So my logging in was also a contributing factor...lol. Thanks for the response.

 

[wallaby32]

hey quick question. If I am currently on fork -18B9j9527 , what changes are new with 18E1? just deciding if I need to upgrade now, or if I can wait until the weekend.

 

[lepa71]

I think I found a bug. I was trying to login in the router from a different pc than I usually do and I got "You can't login login unless you logout first" message, but was logged in one another laptop like a week ago. I believe it used to be a timeout when the old login would get disconnected, but on 18E1 it does not seems work. Am I missing something?

Thanks

 

[john9527]

I think I found a bug. I was trying to login in the router from a different pc than I usually do and I got "You can't login login unless you logout first" message, but was logged in one another laptop like a week ago. I believe it used to be a timeout when the old login would get disconnected, but on 18E1 it does not seems work. Am I missing something?

Thanks

I regularly logon between 4 different PCs when I'm doing development, and haven't see a problem. Both the auto logout and 'disconnect' logout are working as I would expect.

The 'Auto Logout' is set near the bottom of the Administration > System page. Did you a do a factory reset recently which would reset it to 'Disable'?

 

[john9527]

hey quick question. If I am currently on fork -18B9j9527 , what changes are new with 18E1? just deciding if I need to upgrade now, or if I can wait until the weekend.

There's about 25 additional commits over 18B9. Mostly QoS stuff (functional enhancements and gui fixes)....a couple of updated components and a bunch of misc updates. I don't think there's anything that would make me go immediately vs waiting a couple of days for the weekend if it's more convenient.

 

[lepa71]

I regularly logon between 4 different PCs when I'm doing development, and haven't see a problem. Both the auto logout and 'disconnect' logout are working as I would expect.

The 'Auto Logout' is set near the bottom of the Administration > System page. Did you a do a factory reset recently which would reset it to 'Disable'?

I don't know if it makes a difference. I'm using AC68 in bridge mode. I was trying to change the auto log out to 10 minutes and it hang. I had to turn off the power and turn it on.

I don't know if there is a way for you to test this way. I did dirty flash from previous version.

 

[a5m]

It just increments by 1/4 db if I remember right. So..

106 = 25
107 = 25.25
108 = 25.5

..etc

edit: so 100 if I'm right.

Yes you are right thank you. Idk where I read that it wasn't exactky 1/4 increments but clearly that was wrong.

No wonder I couldn't find much info when I googled it.