Skynet My internet speed dropped with Skynet on

[sleeps1007]

I have 1Gb speed and I average 850-950 Mb but when I turned on Skynet my speedtest would drop between 320-350Mb. Is there anything within Skynet that would allow me to get my original speeds?

 

[John Fitzgerald]

Did you set up a swap file on the ssd?

 

[Jack-Sparr0w]

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/amtm-step-by-step-install-guide-l-ld.56237/ use this guide

 

[elorimer]

Model? Firmware? Sounds like HW acceleration maybe.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I have 1Gb speed and I average 850-950 Mb but when I turned on Skynet my speedtest would drop between 320-350Mb. Is there anything within Skynet that would allow me to get my original speeds?

When you enable both inbound and outbound filtering (Option 11 -> 4 ), then your speed will drop. If you only enable outbound filtering, then you will regain semi-normal speeds. This is normal, and by design, and been doing this since the beginning of time.

 

[sleeps1007]

Did you set up a swap file on the ssd?

I did

 

[sleeps1007]

Model? Firmware? Sounds like HW acceleration maybe.

AX88U and I have the latest Merlin firmware. HW accel is on

 

[sleeps1007]

When you enable both inbound and outbound filtering (Option 11 -> 4 ), then your speed will drop. If you only enable outbound filtering, then you will regain semi-normal speeds. This is normal, and by design, and been doing this since the beginning of time.

Ah ok I did change it and did see me speeds increase some. If it can't be helped then I either have to stick with it or remove it

 

[John Fitzgerald]

I did

Entware Installed?

NO, or not using any, QOS application? (don't need, should not be used)
EDIT: because ISP speed greater than 500MB, a 1Gb line shouldn't need it.

 

[CaptainSTX]

I have 1Gb speed and I average 850-950 Mb but when I turned on Skynet my speedtest would drop between 320-350Mb. Is there anything within Skynet that would allow me to get my original speeds?

Have you gone in and banned any IPs or countries in addition to what the default setup bans? At one time I had banned 22 countries and because of the large number of IPs this added I noticed a significant decrease in my speeds.

 

[sleeps1007]

Have you gone in and banned any IPs or countries in addition to what the default setup bans? At one time I had banned 22 countries and because of the large number of IPs this added I noticed a significant decrease in my speeds.

Nope everything is default

 

[sleeps1007]

Entware Installed?

NO or not using any QOS application? (don't need, should not be used)

Yes Entware is installled. I've been using some of the apps from amtm for few years. I just decided to give Skynet a try and QoS is not enabled

 

[bennor]

Yes Entware is installled. I've been using some of the apps from amtm for few years. I just decided to give Skynet a try and QoS is not enabled

To provide a more complete picture of your setup, you may want to include all the other addon's you have installed (and running) besides Skynet along with any Entware services you may be running.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

To provide a more complete picture of your setup, you may want to include all the other addon's you have installed (and running) besides Skynet along with any Entware services you may be running.

In addition to this, @sleeps1007, please let us know how you're doing these speed test. What tool are you using, and where is it running from?

 

[sleeps1007]

Besides Skynet I have scribe, MerlinAU, reboot scheduler, RTMON, and uscribe all running with it's default settings. The speedtest I was using is the one integrated in the router.

List of installed Entware packages (104)

bind-dig - 9.20.7-1 libtirpc - 1.3.4-2
bind-libs - 9.20.7-1 libunbound - 1.23.0-1
ca-bundle - 20241223-1 liburcu - 0.15.2-1
column - 2.41-1 libuuid - 2.41-1
coreutils - 9.6-5 libuv - 1.48.0-1
coreutils-base64 - 9.6-5 locales - 2.27-9
coreutils-timeout - 9.6-5 logrotate - 3.22.0-1
diffutils - 3.10-1 nmap - 7.95-1
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entware-release - 2025.05-1 opkg - 2024.10.16~38eccbb1-1
entware-upgrade - 1.0-1 p7zip - 16.02-3
findutils - 4.10.0-1 procps-ng - 4.0.4-1
glib2 - 2.82.0-1 procps-ng-pkill - 4.0.4-1
grep - 3.11-2 python3 - 3.11.10-1
haveged - 1.9.19-1 python3-asyncio - 3.11.10-1
iftop - 2018.10.03~77901c8c-2 python3-base - 3.11.10-1
jq - 1.7.1-2 python3-bcrypt - 4.2.0-1
libatomic - 8.4.0-11 python3-cffi - 1.16.0-1
libattr - 2.5.2-3 python3-cgi - 3.11.10-1
libbz2 - 1.0.8-1a python3-cgitb - 3.11.10-1
libc - 2.27-11 python3-codecs - 3.11.10-1
libcurl - 8.12.1-2 python3-ctypes - 3.11.10-1
libdbi - 0.9.0-5 python3-dbm - 3.11.10-1
libedit - 20250104.3.1-1 python3-decimal - 3.11.10-1
libevent2 - 2.1.12-2 python3-distutils - 3.11.10-1
libexpat - 2.7.1-1 python3-email - 3.11.10-1
libffi - 3.4.7-1 python3-light - 3.11.10-1
libgcc - 8.4.0-11 python3-logging - 3.11.10-1
libgdbm - 1.23-1 python3-lzma - 3.11.10-1
libhavege - 1.9.19-1 python3-multiprocessing - 3.11.10-1
libiconv-full - 1.18-1 python3-ncurses - 3.11.10-1
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libjson-c - 0.18-1 python3-pip - 23.3.1-1
liblzma - 5.6.2-2 python3-pkg-resources - 69.0.2-1
libmnl - 1.0.5-1 python3-ply - 3.11-2
libncurses - 6.4-3 python3-pycparser - 2.21-2
libncursesw - 6.4-3 python3-pydoc - 3.11.10-1
libnghttp2 - 1.63.0-1 python3-readline - 3.11.10-1
libopenssl - 3.5.0-1 python3-setuptools - 69.0.2-1
libopenssl-conf - 3.5.0-1 python3-sqlite3 - 3.11.10-1
libpcap - 1.10.5-2 python3-unittest - 3.11.10-1
libpcre - 8.45-5 python3-urllib - 3.11.10-1
libpcre2 - 10.42-1 python3-uuid - 3.11.10-1
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libssp - 8.4.0-11 zoneinfo-core - 2025b-1
libstdcpp - 8.4.0-11 zoneinfo-europe - 2025b-1

Entware Apps installed in /opt/bin/ (44)

7z netstat
7za nmap
7zr pdbtool
ash persist-tool
base64 pip
cmp pip3
column pip3.11
diff pkill
diff3 python
dig python3
dqtool python3.11
egrep sdiff
entware-services sh
fgrep slogencrypt
find slogkey
flexqos slogverify
grep sqlite3
iftop syslog-ng-update-virtualenv
jq taildns
locale.new timeout
localedef.new update-patterndb
loggen xargs

Non-Entware Scripts installed in /opt/bin/ (4)

firewall (Skynet) spdmerlin
scribe uiScribe

Entware Apps installed in /opt/sbin/ (9)

haveged logrotate syslog-ng
ifconfig route syslog-ng-ctl
logread screen syslog-ng-debun


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[bennor]

The speedtest I was using is the one integrated in the router.

If you can, do a speed test from a computer with a gigabit capable network port wired directly to the router's LAN port.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

I have 1Gb speed and I average 850-950 Mb but when I turned on Skynet my speedtest would drop between 320-350Mb. Is there anything within Skynet that would allow me to get my original speeds?

Make sure AI Protect is turned off including disagreeing to the Eula. Part of these settings turn on features that cripple (or downright disable) the routers built in hardware acceleration. Especially if you are also using AIProtect and QoS.

 

[jsbeddow]

Strongly second the suggestion of @bennor , run the test from a wired computer. i don't put much faith in the built-in router speed test, it has been shown to be unreliable, especially for testing at greater than about 500mbps WAN connection speed.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Strongly second the suggestion of @bennor , run the test from a wired computer. i don't put much faith in the built-in router speed test, it has been shown to be unreliable, especially for testing at greater than about 500mbps WAN connection speed.

I completely agree as well by extension, I would also disable router features which force the routers CPU to play gatekeeper to traffic flows and packet inspection.

 

[sleeps1007]

If you can, do a speed test from a computer with a gigabit capable network port wired directly to the router's LAN p

Make sure AI Protect is turned off including disagreeing to the Eula. Part of these settings turn on features that cripple (or downright disable) the routers built in hardware acceleration. Especially if you are also using AIProtect and QoS.

I never had issues with aiprotect being on. Are you saying this tool isn't necessary?