TheImmortal
Occasional Visitor
Hello everyone,
I've been reading you guys for close to a month now and kudos to you, the community, and to you, RMerlin, for what you've done! I've gotten my hands on an RT-AC56U ever since my ISP started giving out 1000mbps connections and, whilst I love its throughput power, it's USB 3.0 (35MB/s constantly!) and it's firmwares (using Merlin's latest), I can't stop but be amazed of an issue I have never seen on the Linksys E2000, DiR 615 or even on direct PPPoE: an annoying DNS resolution slowness.
I can't really replicate it. Whenever I try to hit up a new page, I'm getting some 5-10seconds of 'waiting to resolve'; sometimes I'm even getting the 'page timeout' on Firefox/Chrome on websites that I KNOW THAT work and resolve fine. And then if I hit refresh, it all magically works. Overall, I'm sensing a lack of speed when it comes to the HTTP handshake, with everything 'waiting for a bit' before it starts.
Is it 'an ok router'? I have 4 more days to give it back and change it 'no questions asked' and I wonder if I shouldn't be doing it. I've gotten it at a promo and it is already a bit expensive for my budget (and, I felt, needs) but the dualWAN and USB 3.0 + WAN throughput sold me. Unfortunately, this slowness kinda 'makes it up for all of it'.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm using Merlin's 374.42_2 and went on two ASUS firmwares previously, but spotted no real changes. Doing a traceroute from SSH starts INSTANTLY, whilst if I do it from my computer's OS (connected to the router via LAN), it takes for it 20-25seconds to do the first hop but the values are very low and don't really show any of the issues I'm getting.
Thank you.
I've been reading you guys for close to a month now and kudos to you, the community, and to you, RMerlin, for what you've done! I've gotten my hands on an RT-AC56U ever since my ISP started giving out 1000mbps connections and, whilst I love its throughput power, it's USB 3.0 (35MB/s constantly!) and it's firmwares (using Merlin's latest), I can't stop but be amazed of an issue I have never seen on the Linksys E2000, DiR 615 or even on direct PPPoE: an annoying DNS resolution slowness.
I can't really replicate it. Whenever I try to hit up a new page, I'm getting some 5-10seconds of 'waiting to resolve'; sometimes I'm even getting the 'page timeout' on Firefox/Chrome on websites that I KNOW THAT work and resolve fine. And then if I hit refresh, it all magically works. Overall, I'm sensing a lack of speed when it comes to the HTTP handshake, with everything 'waiting for a bit' before it starts.
Is it 'an ok router'? I have 4 more days to give it back and change it 'no questions asked' and I wonder if I shouldn't be doing it. I've gotten it at a promo and it is already a bit expensive for my budget (and, I felt, needs) but the dualWAN and USB 3.0 + WAN throughput sold me. Unfortunately, this slowness kinda 'makes it up for all of it'.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm using Merlin's 374.42_2 and went on two ASUS firmwares previously, but spotted no real changes. Doing a traceroute from SSH starts INSTANTLY, whilst if I do it from my computer's OS (connected to the router via LAN), it takes for it 20-25seconds to do the first hop but the values are very low and don't really show any of the issues I'm getting.
Thank you.
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