Asus RT-N66U Streaming and Port Forwarding issues

[warrior]

Since this is a very new router, and I've scoured this thread for answers but didn't find them, however, I did get some other issues solved.

The first problem is, the RT-N66U streams perfectly fine with the attached USB's. 720p HD streams from the main floor to second floor is no issue. Seeking and all that works too! I'm very happy with it, but, the issue is that I can't stream and download at the same time. If I'm maxing out my download bandwidth (3mb/sec), the stream becomes very choppy and freezes.

I'm assuming that since this router is capable of 3 spatial streams, that this shouldn't be an issue?

The second problem is, Port Forwarding. When I add a port forward via web GUI, nothing gets added to the table. I'm using Google Chrome, I haven't tried IE and I can't just yet as I'm not at home, but will as soon as I do.

Just wondering if anyone else is having issues with adding port forwards to the table? I've updated to the latest firmware as well, which I believe is 3.0.0.3.90.

 

[thiggins]

Can't help you on the port forward question.

Wireless bandwidth won't help you if you are maxing out your internet download speed. Or have I misunderstood your problem?

 

[warrior]

Maybe.. let me elaborate a little

Got a couple of hard drives plugged in the back of the RT-N66U. The hard drives show up in NETWORK and I can access it and watch or view whatever files I have on the hard drives on my Laptop or PC.. this should work even if my cable modem isn't hooked up to the router because it's an internal network.

Streaming a movie from the hard drives on the router to my laptop works great this way, but as soon as I start downloading something from the internet that consumes my ISP's bandwidth, the streaming gets all choppy until I stop the download.

So, for example.

I'm streaming a movie on my laptop via the router and the hard drives plugged in to it. If I go to my PC and start downloading something, the stream to the laptop deteriorates.

The router says 3 spatial of theoretically up to 450mbps. My download cap is no more than 50mbps and the stream is only a 720p movie so shouldn't be more than 20mbsp. The router should be able to stream the movie as well as download and not have any effect on the stream.. right?

 

[stevech]

I would not expect a WiFi router to be able to stream HD from disk, do all the SMB overhead, and have much CPU time left for routing packets to/from the WAN port.

Better to stream HD from a directly attached drive or a small NAS

 

[thiggins]

What is doing the download? If it's the same wireless laptop that is watching the movie, then you are running out of wireless bandwidth.

 

[jerry6]

port forwarding is working with the latest FW , at least it does for mine . Using Iron and Firefox