Recent content by Jim Salter

If you're looking for a single, simple test to run to get an idea of how well one router works vs another, using a single client device, I'd recommend: netburn -u http://yourserver/128K.bin -c 16 -t 300 This simulates downloading webpages as fast as possible for 5 minutes, with no rate...

Not surprising. If you use a 1GB file, netburn has to fit the entire 1GB file in RAM. (Multiple times, if you're using concurrency.) Netburn is not really a very sensible tool for use with files that large. Yes, because individual files are fetched at full rate. The rate limiting works by...

You can do wired ethernet backhaul from satellite to satellite to router. I explicitly tested this, because I knew it's a configuration users would want. :)

FWIW, I've tested so many Orbis so many times my eyes started bleeding, and I've checked backhaul using an RF Spectrum Analyzer during most of those tests. I've never seen any backhaul activity on 2.4 GHz; it's always been 5 GHz. The QCA9984 does really well on 5 GHz connections to another...

Spreading spectrum so that your APs don't congest with one another will *absolutely* produce better results than what I obtained here.

While it's possible that a factory reset would have changed things, it's highly unlikely. All three routers were completely new-in-box prior to the beginning of this test. It's also worth noting that if a factory reset is required, it could be initiated directly from software during the AiMesh...

In my experience, this methodology (which ubiquiti also uses) works fine with everything but iPads; iPads have a distressing tendency to just stay disconnected and sit there like idiots until you manually go back into settings, WiFi settings, then click your network (which has a full strength...

I haven't tested Orbi ethernet backhaul, but I've tested its multi hop topology multiple times, and have had a client using multi hop Orbi in production for more than a year now. The multi hop is quite solid. A few years ago, Orbi didn't do multi hop, amplifi claimed to do multi hop but...

Random binary data, incompressible. dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=1 of=1M.bin

Until recently, star was the only thing any of the mesh kits would do - and conventional "wisdom" was that more than one hop was a terrible idea. Plume and Eero changed the game on that one; I was in that "conventional wisdom" camp myself until I saw the latency results when deploying their...

It's also worth noting that expanding your ASUS router with one additional ASUS router is a clear, unquestionable win. Without even needing wired backhaul, a two-node AiMesh system handily beat the solo RT-AC1900P in all metrics and without fuss. It's only once you hit three or more nodes that...

The selection of the RT-AC68U was pretty deliberate, and price-focused. That looked like about the least expensive AiMesh capable router on the list when I was evaluating - but it's still $140-$150 a pop. At those prices, a three-node AiMesh kit is already as expensive as the best mesh kits...

I apologize for the error too, since I'm pretty sure it was mine in the first place! =)

Yes. The conclusion as stated is correct, but the number is wrong. It should read: That's exactly where it came from. 5.7 Mbps is the value for 5 GHz / A; the charts are correct. I hope we can both agree that there's nothing "sane" about speeds this abysmal from an access point at close...

I haven't talked to OpenMesh about the OM5P-AC, no. For 2.4 GHz single-client (HTTP 1MB repeated download), the raw numbers are 26.3 Mbps for STA D, and 13.2 Mbps for STA A. This matches up with what you see on the graph; note the light blue (2.4 GHz STA D) is about triple the size of the...