AC68 With Merlin's latest, bad USB3 perf

[RampantAndroid]

Hi all,

I've got a Seagate Backup plus (powered kind that can accept a Thunderbolt base) hooked up to an AC68 running the latest build from merlin (376.47); I've turned off "Reduce USB 3..." setting, but despite this on my network drive I'm only getting around 13MB/s read, 12MB/s write on an NTFS partition. Plugging the USB3 drive directly into my laptop (running OS X Yosemite with Tuxera NTFS driver) I get around 70-80MB/s read, 65MB/s write.

In windows, my transfers are even worse, running at 11MB/s, while wired. A further experiment had me copying an ISO from my macbook (wireless) to my windows laptop (wired); this ran at maybe 10MB/s; simultaneously I copied a 1GB file from my wired laptop to my network drive - the transfer rate was 8MB/s instead of the 11-12 I'm used to.

So my drive IS capable of so much more...but I really don't know where to start.

I'd absolutely return this router, if it weren't for the R7000 having a horrible whining noise any time the wireless is in use (yes, I'm super sensitive to that and I'm returning it for that exact reason tomorrow.) I just can't justify the premium for the new AC87 or R8000, and the Linksys router seemed woefully lacking features.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Worth noting - my windows laptop was running 100mbit while wired. D'oh. I'll try to retest with a gigabit hookup.

 

[SpacemanJT]

I upgraded my RT-AC68U for the RT-AC87U just for that reason. The 68U was really slow on USB3 transfers, topping out for me at 11mb/sec.

Now I ebayed that unit and have the RT-AC87U, and USB3 transfers are the least of my worries. I want my RT-AC68U back

In the meantime I have my trusty RT-AC66U. Oh, except every time I turn it on, it needs reflashing