Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.374.33 Beta 1 available

[speedingcheetah]

I have the problem with wire on Merlin build too but my router AC66U. Please ping the router -t 192.168.1.1 just interesting...

Ping looked fine 1ms...rebooted computer seemed to have fixed that issue...

But now...it seems the more I mess around with this router, the worse it gets...i cant seem to get my laptop to connect at higher than either 144 or 400 Mbps....its like the router wont go into 80mhz mode....wifi log confirms chanel 159 40mhz....even when set to 80......may have to do a full rest...(using stock firmware currently..as that seems to provided better wifi speeds)

 

[wsarahan]

Hi guys how are you?

First of all sorry for my poor english

I have here The RTAC66U

Let me ask you something, the load balance works like if i have 2 links together? I mean, if i have 2 links with 50Mbps with the load balance enabled it will combine both and i`ll get 100Mbps as an example? If yes i can`t get this one here, even with Merlin or original Asus FW, if not what does the load balance do in a simple way to understand?

Another question, the failover is working here but when the primary link goes up again the router still stay with the second link on, the primary one does not return as principal, is it a know bug?

Greetings from Brazil

Thanks

 

[sandman_1]

Having an issue with the Dual Wan Load balance. When I enable it and use my phone as the secondary, it will only load IPv6 addresses. I check my ip with Google and it displays my temporary windows IPv6 address for some reason. I have a Hurricane Electric tunnel broker account setup on my RT-N66R for some servers I connect to. Dont know if that has anything to do with it but who knows. The fail safe seems to work fine though. I would love to get this working on this router but I am at a loss what the issue could be. Any advice?

 

[PrivateJoker]

I am only getting about 42MB's wire transfer speed with this firmware. I flash back to stock and I get 90 -100MB's.

90-100 MB/s transfer speed on your LAN? That's a pretty quick clip, do you have a super fast NAS or something that you're getting that with?

 

[RMerlin]

Let me ask you something, the load balance works like if i have 2 links together? I mean, if i have 2 links with 50Mbps with the load balance enabled it will combine both and i`ll get 100Mbps as an example? If yes i can`t get this one here, even with Merlin or original Asus FW, if not what does the load balance do in a simple way to understand?

That's not how load-balancing works. The balancing isn't done on packets, but on connections. That means if you connect to a server, you establish one connection through one of the two WAN, and all traffic going through that connection will only go through that specific WAN. So if, for example, you start downloading a large file in your browser, it will only use the first WAN connection, going at 50 Mbps.

Then, if you start a second download, that one will connect through the second connection, meaning that both downloads will occur simultaneously, each using one of the connections at 50 Mbps, for a combined total of 100 Mbps.

Another question, the failover is working here but when the primary link goes up again the router still stay with the second link on, the primary one does not return as principal, is it a know bug?

Known issue, yes.

 

[wsarahan]

That's not how load-balancing works. The balancing isn't done on packets, but on connections. That means if you connect to a server, you establish one connection through one of the two WAN, and all traffic going through that connection will only go through that specific WAN. So if, for example, you start downloading a large file in your browser, it will only use the first WAN connection, going at 50 Mbps.

Then, if you start a second download, that one will connect through the second connection, meaning that both downloads will occur simultaneously, each using one of the connections at 50 Mbps, for a combined total of 100 Mbps.



Known issue, yes.

Thanks Merlin

And that`s why at SpeedTests i only get 50Mbps and not the full 100Mbps like i was thinking with both links right?

Just another question, does it works for torrents too or just web traffic and downloads? Do i need to use the same DNS on both links?

And the latest one, does it worth using now or better wait Asus or your builds come more stable at load balance?

Thanks again

 

[RMerlin]

And that`s why at SpeedTests i only get 50Mbps and not the full 100Mbps like i was thinking with both links right?

Correct. Most test open one single connection to the web server.

Just another question, does it works for torrents too or just web traffic and downloads? Do i need to use the same DNS on both links?

Bittorrent is one application that would benefit from load-balancing however, as connections will be spread between both WAN interfaces.

And the latest one, does it worth using now or better wait Asus or your builds come more stable at load balance?

Asus only just enabled DualWAN mode in their firmware, so it's possible that it might not be 100% mature yet. The feedback I got from my experimental builds that had DualWAN enabled was mixed, depending on everyone's specific environment. You would have to give it a try to see by yourself if it works well enough for your specific environment.

 

[wsarahan]

Correct. Most test open one single connection to the web server.



Bittorrent is one application that would benefit from load-balancing however, as connections will be spread between both WAN interfaces.



Asus only just enabled DualWAN mode in their firmware, so it's possible that it might not be 100% mature yet. The feedback I got from my experimental builds that had DualWAN enabled was mixed, depending on everyone's specific environment. You would have to give it a try to see by yourself if it works well enough for your specific environment.

Thanks

The last question from now

What means the load balance configuration option that default value is 3:1?

In a simple way what this mean?

And what value do you recommend to use?

Thanks again Merlin, you are helping me a lot


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[speedingcheetah]

90-100 MB/s transfer speed on your LAN? That's a pretty quick clip, do you have a super fast NAS or something that you're getting that with?

I use a desktop with FreeNAS...also a Windows Server 2012 system that I transfer files via gigabit cat6a wiring ...

With the N56U with Padavan firmware....I always got around 100+MB's. Even my old Cisco E3000 running tomato still gave me the same lan routing speed. This AC56U....seems a bit slower...which I am surprised about as it has a better cpu...but I suppose it is worth it for the better wifi...

Not sure why I had that issue with very low routing speed....I did a recovery of the stock firmware in recovery mode....and now its running fine. Sticking to stock firmware..for now...

 

[SkyNet]

Thanks

The last question from now

What means the load balance configuration option that default value is 3:1?

In a simple way what this mean?

And what value do you recommend to use?

Thanks again Merlin, you are helping me a lot


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I think that it a traffic ratio between two unsymmetrical throughputs wan channels and for symmetrical in some cases. I never used dual wan but i think it is...

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks

The last question from now

What means the load balance configuration option that default value is 3:1?

If you establish four new connections, the first three will go through WAN 1, and the fourth one will go through WAN2. It's the ratio how you want connections to be spread between both WANs.

 

[babgvant]

I installed this build on the AC-RT66U used as a bridge and noticed two things.

1) In repeater mode, the WAN port was on VLAN2 and it could not connect to the internet (is this by design).

2) Flipping from repeater to Media Bridge mode, everything seems to be working but the AC-RT66U is not responding to HTTP requests and doesn't show up in in the ASUS Discovery tool. I had the device set to a static IP, if that makes any difference. After rebooting the MB, it did come back up on HTTP but on a DHCP assigned address (flipping from static to DHCP IP on mode change was expected behavior - the ASUS FW does that too).

 

[RMerlin]

I installed this build on the AC-RT66U used as a bridge and noticed two things.

1) In repeater mode, the WAN port was on VLAN2 and it could not connect to the internet (is this by design).

I never studied the Repeater code, but I assume that'd be the case, since the idea of a repeater is that it must get its Internet access from another router, over Wifi. That's also why a lot of the router services aren't available while in Repeater mode.

2) Flipping from repeater to Media Bridge mode, everything seems to be working but the AC-RT66U is not responding to HTTP requests and doesn't show up in in the ASUS Discovery tool. I had the device set to a static IP, if that makes any difference. After rebooting the MB, it did come back up on HTTP but on a DHCP assigned address (flipping from static to DHCP IP on mode change was expected behavior - the ASUS FW does that too).

Not sure how Media Bridge works, but I would check on the primary router if you can determine what's the IP it uses to connect to the media bridge, then see if you can access that IP through its WAN interface in addition to the LAN interface.

 

[tyspeed42]

Why reboot makes router bandwidth faster?

Before reboot:

Server: Fremont, CA
Download: 10.89 Mbps
Upload: 4.11 Mbps
Ping Time: 6128 ms
Connection Type: Mobile


After reboot:

Server: Fremont, CA
Download: 33.92 Mbps
Upload: 4.07 Mbps
Ping Time: 6128 ms
Connection Type: WiFi

Is there an explanation for this, I know this was happening in previous builds but I had thought some type of reboot or refresh was being build into the code or something automatic? Just curious, does the router work like a computer and has to be rebooted every so often? Or does a router need a daily reboot?

 

[RMerlin]

Before reboot:

Server: Fremont, CA
Download: 10.89 Mbps
Upload: 4.11 Mbps
Ping Time: 6128 ms
Connection Type: Mobile


After reboot:

Server: Fremont, CA
Download: 33.92 Mbps
Upload: 4.07 Mbps
Ping Time: 6128 ms
Connection Type: WiFi

Is there an explanation for this, I know this was happening in previous builds but I had thought some type of reboot or refresh was being build into the code or something automatic? Just curious, does the router work like a computer and has to be rebooted every so often? Or does a router need a daily reboot?

Your first report says "mobile", the second says "wifi". Are you sure that first test wasn't made over 3G/HSPA?

 

[tyspeed42]

not sure why it switched, i didn't catch that. I will test it again.

 

[tyspeed42]

you are right, even it was connected to my 5ghz wireless it somehow it switched interesting though. I thought once wifi was on it did not rely on cellular.

 

[RMerlin]

Ok, minidlna 1.0.25 finished and indexed everything fine. So, taking your request, I created a much smaller Photos directory with just a single folder (2007) that contained 8083 files. This was the folder that caused 1.1.0 to begin printing malloc failures.
Did a killall minidlna and restated using the 1.1.0 binary.

1.1.0 finished fine. Made it through the /Photos/2007 folder without a problem. For reference, my normal /Photos directory contains 55491 files (I take lots of photos ;-)

So, sounds like a memory leak of some form.

Hi,

So far I can't reproduce the issue here - my free memory kept oscillating between 50 MB and 80 MB free while indexing my medias. Note however that if you haven't changed it, the default location for both the database and the art cache will be in RAM (/var/cache/minidlna). Try moving the MiniDLNA database to a directory on your disk (from USB -> Servers Center -> Media Server), then reboot to clear your RAM, and see if it can succesfully index everything.

Minidlna will also store a logfile in that same directory, so you can have a look at it to see if it gives you more info as to where/why it crashes while scanning.