Speed issue on almost all Tomato FMs on Rt-N66U

[w11x22]

Hi all......
I have this speed issue with my Router. When I test with speettest.net I get only 4 to 7 Mbps and my Cable Internet is 14 Mbps. I tried Shibby 103 to 105, I tried RAF and I tried Toastman different versions but speed issue remains the same. As soon as I test speed test via Router I get between 5 7 Mbps but right away when I remove my Laptop and connect directly to Cable Modem I get full 15 Mbps so it is not the issue of of my Laptop or Cable Modem. I tried different times of the day but same thing. I used Wired connection to test this not the Wireless....Also no QOS enabled and no BW Limiter
PS: I did cleared NVRAM after each Flashing....
PS: Tried Merlin FM and got full 15 Mbps results using same HW meaning same Ethernet Cabela nd same Laptop
Any Idea????

 

[linkmaster]

Yep , stick with merlins.

 

[KevTech]

I normally powercycle the modem when switching between firmware types as the router MAC may change and most ISP only allow the modem to attach to one MAC.

 

[somms]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2659465228.png

FWIW: No speed issue w/Shibby's tomato on my Asus RT-N66U over FTTH 100Mb/s...

 

[JoeSchmoe007]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2659465228.png

FWIW: No speed issue w/Shibby's tomato on my Asus RT-N66U over FTTH 100Mb/s...

Can you post complete filename for Shibby's firmware that you use? Do you have any issues with it it all?

 

[RMerlin]

Tomato should be able to reach up to about 200 Mbits Internet connections on this router. Beyond that, you need hardware acceleration such as provided by the Asus firmware.

 

[somms]

tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-108-VPN-64K

Which is the latest I believe...

I trust Merlin saying that Tomato probably tops out not much above 100Mb/s...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/google-fiber-provo/

Since GoogleFiber is now planning to have a footprint in my state, I doubt any consumer-level wireless router could handle a gigabit WAN throughtput though I may be wrong!

 

[JoeSchmoe007]

tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-108-VPN-64K

Which is the latest I believe...

I trust Merlin saying that Tomato probably tops out not much above 100Mb/s...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/google-fiber-provo/

Since GoogleFiber is now planning to have a footprint in my state, I doubt any consumer-level wireless router could handle a gigabit WAN throughtput though I may be wrong!

Have you tried Merlin's and Shibby's and settled on Shibby's?

 

[JoeSchmoe007]

Tomato should be able to reach up to about 200 Mbits Internet connections on this router. Beyond that, you need hardware acceleration such as provided by the Asus firmware.

Do you mind explaining why hardware acceleration is not available in Tomato?

 

[RMerlin]

Do you mind explaining why hardware acceleration is not available in Tomato?

Proprietary, closed-source module. And that module is not compatible with many of the advanced features that Tomato has. So for hardware acceleration to work, Tomato would have to sacrifice QoS, VLAN tagging, and probably a lot of other features that rely on iptables for their implementation. Since it would make it pointless to use Tomato in such a case, the devs decided a few years ago to drop support for Hardware Acceleration.

 

[somms]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the CTF on the ASUS firmware that is responsible for much of the throughput gain on using OEM firmware over Tomato?

I know that there is a setting present to enable CTF (Cut-Through Forwarding) in Tomato firmware but not sure if it actually works...

 

[RMerlin]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the CTF on the ASUS firmware that is responsible for much of the throughput gain on using OEM firmware over Tomato?

That's correct. That's the module that provides what Asus calls "HW acceleration" on their webui.

I know that there is a setting present to enable CTF (Cut-Through Forwarding) in Tomato firmware but not sure if it actually works...

It doesn't do anything anymore. The actual ctf module that used to be included is no longer part of Tomato.

 

[somms]

That's correct. That's the module that provides what Asus calls "HW acceleration" on their webui.



It doesn't do anything anymore. The actual ctf module that used to be included is no longer part of Tomato.

Thanks for the info!