morecrap
Occasional Visitor
Hey people,
I have been using TomatoUSB by Shibby on my RT-N16 for quite some time now and found that if I ever needed to reconnect the PPPoE connection (same result on AsusWRT, stock and Merlin's builds), it took at least 20-60 seconds to get the connection back on BUT when I do the same thing on DD-WRT (same router), it connects in around 5 seconds! I also tried a friend's TP-Link router and compared the stock and DD-WRT for PPPoE connecting speed and found the same result, i.e., faster connecting in DD-WRT and much slower in stock firmware.
So, then I decided to try this out from my computer directly (Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and Windows 10 Pro x64) and found that it was taking as long as Tomato or AsusWRT.
I wish to understand how this is possible and what is DD-WRT doing differently to be able to accomplish this significantly faster than other firmware.
For reference, I am using a Fibre connection with an ONT as the modem that connects to the router WAN port.
Anyone else faced this? Does anyone know what is different about DD-WRT in this regard?
Thanks!
-morecrap
I have been using TomatoUSB by Shibby on my RT-N16 for quite some time now and found that if I ever needed to reconnect the PPPoE connection (same result on AsusWRT, stock and Merlin's builds), it took at least 20-60 seconds to get the connection back on BUT when I do the same thing on DD-WRT (same router), it connects in around 5 seconds! I also tried a friend's TP-Link router and compared the stock and DD-WRT for PPPoE connecting speed and found the same result, i.e., faster connecting in DD-WRT and much slower in stock firmware.
So, then I decided to try this out from my computer directly (Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and Windows 10 Pro x64) and found that it was taking as long as Tomato or AsusWRT.
I wish to understand how this is possible and what is DD-WRT doing differently to be able to accomplish this significantly faster than other firmware.
For reference, I am using a Fibre connection with an ONT as the modem that connects to the router WAN port.
Anyone else faced this? Does anyone know what is different about DD-WRT in this regard?
Thanks!
-morecrap
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