Hi, i recently purchased an Asus RT-AC68U router to replace an older TP Link Archer D9 gigabit router.
I have a NAS connected to the Asus router and my laptop connected directly to the router. All connections (NAS>Router, Router>Laptop) are gigabit connections. I have noticed that between the various firmware versions from Asus that the file transfer speed from NAS to my laptop varied a bit. With the Archer D9 i would get a pretty consistant 65MB-70MB /sec file transfer speed. With the latest Asus firmware (3.0.0.4.380.1842) i get approx. 45MB-55MB /sec speed copying the same file across.
I have also noticed that turning off HW Acceleration (CTF and FA) so that all NAT processing is done by the CPU increases the file transfer to approx. 60MB/sec but this then causes an issue with the 2.4GHZ wi fi dropping out. This was fixed in the beta (9.0.0.4.380.2695) which i have also tried but the transfer speed from NAS is approx. 50MB/sec or less even with Hardware acceleration turned off.
I want to know if this is normal for the LAN throughput to increase when turning off HW acceleration? as i assumed the hardware acceleration only applied for WAN>LAN and LAN>WAN traffic and would not affect LAN>LAN traffic.
Also does anyone have any recommendations as to the best firmware that might give me the fastest LAN throughput speeds and is stable? I have tried various versions of the official ASUS firmware and even tried Merlins version, but i noticed the LAN transfer speeds were slower on Merlins build when compared to the official ASUS firmware.
In conclusion his latest build 380.58 fixed the 2.4GHZ issue when hardware acceleration is turned off. Are all older builds (ASUS official, ASUSWRT-merlin) affected by this same 2.4GHZ bug as i was thinking of rolling back to older firmware until i found one that gave solid LAN>LAN speed and no issue with 2.4GHZ wi-fi.
Thanks in advance
Shaun
I have a NAS connected to the Asus router and my laptop connected directly to the router. All connections (NAS>Router, Router>Laptop) are gigabit connections. I have noticed that between the various firmware versions from Asus that the file transfer speed from NAS to my laptop varied a bit. With the Archer D9 i would get a pretty consistant 65MB-70MB /sec file transfer speed. With the latest Asus firmware (3.0.0.4.380.1842) i get approx. 45MB-55MB /sec speed copying the same file across.
I have also noticed that turning off HW Acceleration (CTF and FA) so that all NAT processing is done by the CPU increases the file transfer to approx. 60MB/sec but this then causes an issue with the 2.4GHZ wi fi dropping out. This was fixed in the beta (9.0.0.4.380.2695) which i have also tried but the transfer speed from NAS is approx. 50MB/sec or less even with Hardware acceleration turned off.
I want to know if this is normal for the LAN throughput to increase when turning off HW acceleration? as i assumed the hardware acceleration only applied for WAN>LAN and LAN>WAN traffic and would not affect LAN>LAN traffic.
Also does anyone have any recommendations as to the best firmware that might give me the fastest LAN throughput speeds and is stable? I have tried various versions of the official ASUS firmware and even tried Merlins version, but i noticed the LAN transfer speeds were slower on Merlins build when compared to the official ASUS firmware.
In conclusion his latest build 380.58 fixed the 2.4GHZ issue when hardware acceleration is turned off. Are all older builds (ASUS official, ASUSWRT-merlin) affected by this same 2.4GHZ bug as i was thinking of rolling back to older firmware until i found one that gave solid LAN>LAN speed and no issue with 2.4GHZ wi-fi.
Thanks in advance
Shaun
