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  1. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    Yes, but I don't think that is the reason it switched out on me. I'll have to watch closely but I think it did this with a non-DFS channel as well. I'm connected to 104 now without any issues.
  2. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    So this is odd. I set the "Control Channel" on the RT-AX88U, but after a while it decided to use a different channel. Any idea why it would do this? For example, I set the channel to 100 and that stuck but when I came back a day later the router was using channel 36 (42).
  3. frichardson

    Measuring WiFi Performance

    Yeah, the problem is that my ethernet ports are 1gig and I'm trying to see how much I can go over 1gig with my 1700 160MHz connection. I think I can run iperf briefly to do that and then disable it.
  4. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    I think in the US the FCC re-enabled some DFS channels for use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels), but right I shouldn't assume that just because my router lets me do it it's okay... EDIT: and right, I was just wondering how much over 1,000Mbps I can get with the 160MHz AC...
  5. frichardson

    Measuring WiFi Performance

    Thank you for that pointer! Yeah, that all makes a lot of sense - I'm just getting caught up in the geek factor of having a new router lol =D
  6. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    In the notes I've read here, people seem to recommend avoiding DFS channels. I ask because for 5GHz, my neighbors are on top of the non-DFS channels. This definitely affected my throughput - a lot. Switching to a DFS channel seems to have fixed this, but am I setting myself up for other...
  7. frichardson

    Measuring WiFi Performance

    670 Mbps (out of a theoretical 850) is very close to the max I was seeing - I wonder if this is what everyone gets over 80MHz AC. I upgraded my adapter on my laptop and enabled 160MHz on my router (the theoretical max is now 1750), but in order to measure the max speed I'll need to run iperf on...
  8. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    Yes, I saw that, but I was wondering if what you were getting is typically (i.e. if anyone ever gets the 1700Mbps). That's around what I was seeing with the 80Mhz AC (650 out of 850 or something). I noticed the Intel docs say "theoretical max"...
  9. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    Thank you! I'll try that out - I'm really looking forward to punting the stock FW and install @RMerlin's magic :) Do you happen to know what actual throughput people have seen with the 160MHz AC connection? If I understand correctly, 1700Mbps is a theoretical (calculated) bandwidth... Sent...
  10. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    Oh right... this is actually pretty funny. The good part is that the 160MHz connections get me to the point where I can max my D/L capacity of my ISP - that is 1Gig and I get about 930Mbps. But, since the ether ports on the RT-AX88U are all 1Gig, I can't really go faster than that via iperf...
  11. frichardson

    To VPN or not to VPN?

    @coxhaus - one use case for VPN I've heard is for people who don't like the way their ISPs throttle certain types of traffic (gaming or video or some such thing) and they try to use a VPN to obfuscate the packets. I don't know if this really works or not...
  12. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    Thank you @RMerlin ! I saw that you have iperf included in asuswrt, but it didn't occur to me that the router might not be powerful enough to do this kind of benchmark well. Ethernet to wifi makes a lot of sense and I'll give that a try.
  13. frichardson

    Measuring WiFi Performance

    I'm trying to figure out the maximum transfer rate over WIFI. speedtest.net was great for initial rough numbers (and for combined ISP + router performance), but I'd like to see how my router is doing on it's own.
  14. frichardson

    Measuring WiFi Performance

    I figured the disk write speed would be very fast relative to WIFI throughput speed, but perhaps I am wrong there. I will take a look at iperf, thanks!
  15. frichardson

    Measuring WiFi Performance

    I was a little surprised that my router doesn't come with some kind of throughput measurement tool. I figured I could mount a disk on the router and measure throughput using "rsync" to copy random file over. Is there a standard way of measuring throughput to/from the router?
  16. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    So I upgraded my laptops network adapter from the Intel AC-8260 to the AC-9260 which essentially gives you a 160MHz client. I enabled 160MHz on the RT-AX88U and the connection is shown both on the router and on my PC as supporting 1733 rx/tx. Speedtest.net gives about the same performance as...
  17. frichardson

    To VPN or not to VPN?

    @Klueless - yes, where I was a bit confused was if there was a reason to encrypt all traffic using some VPN provider. Based on what I understand so far, the answer is "no". I'm better of locking things down as best as I can on my end (via good router hygiene) then becoming my own "VPN...
  18. frichardson

    [Asus RT-AX88U] Experiences & Discussion

    Well, I am pretty happy with the RT-AX88U so far. I did order a 160MHz adapter for my laptop - I'll report back on that. @RMerlin - I thought I'd hold off on trying out your firmware for the next release, but if there is particular testing (beta or otherwise) you need or want done let me know.
  19. frichardson

    To VPN or not to VPN?

    Okay, I think I have the right mind set now. Thank you!
  20. frichardson

    To VPN or not to VPN?

    With the caveat that I have relatively little background knowledge in this area, I tend to agree with you. Currently I wonder if the best I can do is lock down my own network (starting with the router) as much as possible and run a VPN server so I can benefit from this when I am remote.
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