Recent content by rajl

Yeah, the only reason we paid for gigabit is the upload speeds. My wife and I work from home and we regularly backup from our NAS to offsite. Going from 10Mbps to 1000Mbps made a world of difference. The increased download speed is not really noticeable. Thanks for the feedback about my...

I have a desktop in my home environment with a 3x3 card, so it sounds like that could potentially saturate gigabit. I am guessing it’s much more likely if a client on the 2.4 band were simultaneously connecting. What about the situation where a 2x2 client on the 5Ghz band and a 2x2 client in...

Hello all, I am looking at installing a few WiFi access points in my house. I’ve been looking some AC1750/1900 class ones. Most offer just a single gigabit uplink, but one or two offer dual gigabit ports that can be aggregated together for extra backhaul bandwidth. My question is “is it...

The chances of DD-WRT supporting it are slim, but greater than something like OpenWRT. Hardware NAT acceleration is generally a driver level configuration option and is generally only available when using binary blob drivers. Merlin's firmware supports it because he uses the ASUS stock...

Sounds like the Netgear firmware supported hardware acceleration of NAT (e.g. Cut-through forwarding) and the DD-WRT firmware did not.

Samba over openvpn has a number of documented problems. The root issue is that when you use the tun interface, your openvpn configuration has to advertise all routes to other devices. There are generally two ways to get SMB over openvpn working. If you want to use the tun interface then the...

And I know very few people who still use BitTorrent - probably just as many that limit their internet usage to email and CNN.;) Goes to show how varied the users of the Internet are. I remember reading somewhere that, in North America at least, the majority of traffic is video streaming...

Actually, the author's point was that he found himself replacing routers more frequently than "when it dies" because his customers were increasing their internet speeds in a regular basis. The p2p example later in the article was how ~15 years ago, the dial-up modems his ISP ran could handle a...

It's a good article, and illuminating. I definitely think that lays out a better testing methodology for evaluating router performance than what is currently done here. However, I think the article is making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill. The tests are a little over the top. It's...

Subject says it all. I'm asking because I was digging around in the html code for Advanced_SwitchCtrl_Content.asp on Merlin's latest firmware build for my AC66u and found the following entry for a table row for the options to be presented on the page: <tr id="lacp_tr" style="display:none;">...

I noticed a regression (or maybe an undocumented feature removal) with the latest version of Merlin's firmware and wanted to see if anyone else could confirm or reproduce it or if it is just something unique to my circumstances. The issue is that the tab for enabling and disabling features for...

No idea. :-) I have thought of doing just that, but have identified that following issues: The first splitter is outside my house. I have no idea why other than that I suspect because it was the easiest and laziest way to do the cable run. Is there way to put an amplifier in front of the...

I took a look at the NetGear range extenders. Their "FastLane" is interesting, and Linksys has some new products that appear to be an even better implementation (Netgear uses one band as backhaul and the other for client connection while Linksys dynamically alternates between the two depending...

An access point is definitely what I want to do (if the backhaul is feasible) to extend my WiFi. So the question circles back to the backhaul. Powerline provides a low bandwidth backhaul to my basement (~10 Mbps). The wife won't let me start cutting the walls, floors, etc. to run Cat5/6 from...

Powerline is very much a "hit or miss" proposition. Powerline speeds decrease over distance and powerline is affected by line noise, which is generated by every electric device plugged into a socket on the electric wires between the two adapters. Signal strength is also lost as you cross...