How to keep RT-N16 alive

[bogolisk]

Hi

I've been using a (now unsupported) RT-N16 for 4 years. It has been very trustworthy. It's firmware is Merlin 378.50. However, I just switched ISP and going from 25Mbps plan to a 100Mbps plan.

Speedtest with laptop connected (using Cat6) directly to the modem gives: 98.9Mbps/10.3Mbps
Speedtest with laptop connected (using Cat6) to RT-N16, then to modem (using Cat6) gives: 66Mbps/9.5Mbps.

Is there any option (some kind of hw offloading?) to get the RT-N16 to reach 90 Mbps, or I have to buy a new router?

Thank you

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Bogolisk

 

[czekker]

i've got 120/10 plan.
the modem is Cisco EPC3212.
my RT-N16 gives 116/9.8 easy.

ps.
i use john9527's LTS fork - just upgraded to v374.43_2-22E2j9527
highly recommended

 

[RMerlin]

Make sure NAT/Hardware acceleration is enabled. Check the Tools -> Sysinfo page to validate.

I also strongly recommend switching to John's fork, so you can get a whole bunch of security fixes that occured since that last release.

 

[bogolisk]

Make sure NAT/Hardware acceleration is enabled. Check the Tools -> Sysinfo page to validate.

I also strongly recommend switching to John's fork, so you can get a whole bunch of security fixes that occured since that last release.

hw accel: disabled (by user) !!!!

how to enable it? please!

does QoS disables hw-accel?

 

[microchip]

does QoS disables hw-accel?

Yes. Anything that needs to inspect packets first, disables hw-accel