Menu
What's new
By:
Filters
Better Search

Search results

  • SNBForums Code of Conduct

    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

    Please be tolerant and patient of others, especially newcomers. We are all here to share and learn!

    The rules are simple: Be patient, be nice, be helpful or be gone!

  1. TheLostSwede

    MLO: What exactly is Smart Connect's role?

    Have you tried iPerf or some similar benchmark?
  2. TheLostSwede

    ANNOUNCEMENT: Asuswrt-Merlin support underway for 3 Wifi 7 routers

    Right, well, I'm old enough to remember acoustic modems so... 🤷‍♂️
  3. TheLostSwede

    Bought the Asus AX5700 Dual-band RT-AX86U Pro router.. Should I pay $50 more for the Asus AX6000 or AXE7800?

    Do you have any 802.11ax devices to start with? The "extra port" as you put it, is to get 2.5 Gbps speeds both from your internet connection and onwards to you devices, if you have a 2.5 Gbps switch and a wired network. Some of do, many don't. How fast fibre will be on offer and how fast will...
  4. TheLostSwede

    ANNOUNCEMENT: Asuswrt-Merlin support underway for 3 Wifi 7 routers

    Same here, much cheaper than any other similar router for some reason.
  5. TheLostSwede

    ANNOUNCEMENT: Asuswrt-Merlin support underway for 3 Wifi 7 routers

    You're not a Gameur?!
  6. TheLostSwede

    ANNOUNCEMENT: Asuswrt-Merlin support underway for 3 Wifi 7 routers

    Chillax, this is only the first announcement. He didn't say these were the only devices that will be supported.
  7. TheLostSwede

    ANNOUNCEMENT: Asuswrt-Merlin support underway for 3 Wifi 7 routers

    How young are you? 😂
  8. TheLostSwede

    AC86U keeps losing USB drives

    Most likely they're drawing too much power. Use a powered USB hub or get a powered housing/drive.
  9. TheLostSwede

    MLO: What exactly is Smart Connect's role?

    This might help https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/wifi-7#mlo-features https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1053342/ Also, a quick search on the galactic interweb suggests that there are some issues with your phone and MLO with other makes of routers. Some can't even connect to the 6 GHz...
  10. TheLostSwede

    Internal antenna router

    Yes, but it's not as bad as concrete with rebar in it or walls with chicken wire in them. The denser the material, the harder it is for the WiFi signal to penetrate it, but a lot of metal makes it even worse. I used to live in a similar sized, three storey concrete and steel house and I had to...
  11. TheLostSwede

    New wireless router - not too expensive

    Funny guy... In the UK, the GT-AX6000 is cheaper than the RT-AX68U Pro...
  12. TheLostSwede

    New wireless router - not too expensive

    Looks like the GT-AX6000 is your best option price wise at a penny under 200 quid. The TUF Gaming AX6000 is around 160 quid and the TUF Gaming AX4200 comes in at 126 quid. The ISP provided hardware is far from cutting edge and it's apparently the same hardware as in the BT Smart Hub 2, which...
  13. TheLostSwede

    New wireless router - not too expensive

    That's still using the quickly aging Cortex-A7 CPU cores though.
  14. TheLostSwede

    New wireless router - not too expensive

    As pointed out above, the RT-AX86U Pro might be your best bet, even though the price isn't super low. That said, the GT-AX6000 and the RT-AX88U Pro are sometimes the same price or cheaper, which makes it worth keeping an eye out on those two models as well. What router did your ISP provide...
  15. TheLostSwede

    ASUS Unveils RT-BE88U WiFi 7 Dual-Band Router

    They're perfectly fine for backups and media storage, no doubt about it. I just don't want them in my PC, but in a NAS they're fine.
  16. TheLostSwede

    ASUS Unveils RT-BE88U WiFi 7 Dual-Band Router

    Well, it's not a one off, feel free to check out the review I wrote about that NAS. That said, CDM is only 1 GB of data, so it might be cached in RAM, thus going faster than expected. The fastest file copy test was almost 253 MB/s...
  17. TheLostSwede

    ASUS Unveils RT-BE88U WiFi 7 Dual-Band Router

    Huh? I don't get anywhere near 2.5 Gbps speeds. This is what you get from an x86 powered NAS using 2.5 Gbps. Again, it's not a secret sauce, it's poor optimisation on several levels, from USB 3.0 to SMB to anything. There are a ton of things that needs to be optimised for the specific...
  18. TheLostSwede

    ASUS Unveils RT-BE88U WiFi 7 Dual-Band Router

    Here you go, some actual benchmarks, on a GT-AX6000. CPU usage was never above 3%, so as I've already pointed out, it's about lack of optimisation, not due to lack of CPU power. Write performance is pretty terrible. A quad core Cortex-A53 at 2 GHz should be far more capable than this. Real world...
  19. TheLostSwede

    ASUS Unveils RT-BE88U WiFi 7 Dual-Band Router

    Ok, sorry, this isn't a "can't do" thing, but rather a driver optimisation thing. It seems very little effort is done from the router makers to optimise Linux for USB performance. I know this first hand, as when I worked for Securifi, we spent a bit of time working with ASMedia to optimise the...
  20. TheLostSwede

    BCM6750 switch function in AX58U - relating to wifi throughput, latency and jitter, microstutter in PCVR.

    Well, that router is a low-end model, which has a low-end Cortex-A7 based SoC in it and it's not known as a great router SoC. In fact, the entire platform is somewhat crippled, as the SoC only has support for 16-bit DDR3 RAM, whereas high-end router SoCs use two 16-bit chips (for 32-bit width)...
Top