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Recent content by simonp

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    RT-AC68U slow gigabit, will merlin help?

    That could be, prior to this there was nothing but Auto and disable in the switch control options. It does indeed say HW acceleation enabled in tools->system information now.
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    RT-AC68U slow gigabit, will merlin help?

    Alright, it was set to Cut through in switch control before though, i tried both settings before i flashed it. Works fine now.
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    RT-AC68U slow gigabit, will merlin help?

    OK i went ahead and installed merlin, very easy and quick and it seems to retain all my settings. I now get upwards of 900-980mbit. So my problem seems solved this way, but the stock firmware is apparently no good if you have more than 500mbit connections I suppose we can learn. One thing I...
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    RT-AC68U slow gigabit, will merlin help?

    Yeah i saw that too, but its getting something like half that using the standard firmware (latest one). I can get much faster speeds directly connected to the FIOS box so it has to be router related. Where exactly would i check if hardware acceleration is enabled on the standard firmware?
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    RT-AC68U slow gigabit, will merlin help?

    Hi I've been upgraded to 1000mbit from 500. I have an asus RT-AC68U that can deliver around 500mbit speeds but cannot go above 550 or so now that the line has been upgraded. Some people that I can google seem to be able to get close to gigabit speeds from this router, others less so. I can...
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