Enabling Hardware Flow Acceleration (Level 2) in AC87U

[oversim]

Uhm... in your screenshot "Powered by Merlin" logo is missing... Maybe this is the problem!

 

[L&LD]

Yes, you did not correctly flash the RMerlin firmware to your router.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-custom-firmware-for-asus-routers.7846/#post-61974

Click on the 'Download' link and download, unzip and flash the latest firmware for your router followed by a reset to factory defaults with minimal and manual configuration of the router.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/no...l-and-manual-configuration.27115/#post-205573

 

[Heripotar]

I changed the firmware to RMerlin one and now is working at full capacity - 930MB.
I will describe few things from my experience with what i did now maybe there are other ppl who need and can use this info: after i uploaded the firmware all the settings from asus one were in place and i still had the 380MB even that i disabled the STP, the message in LAN/Switch Control - still only - CTF(Cut Through Forwarding) is enabled - nothing about (FA). After the factory reset, with all the settings manualy put back and with STP disabled - practically same settings as previous it worked, but, but - the message in LAN/Switch Control page - still only - CTF(Cut Through Forwarding) is enabled - nothing about the FA. Once again thx for support.

 

[MKANET]

I have an Asus AC5300 (Merlin Firmware Version: 384.13)

Is it required to clear the router's NVRAM for the below steps to work? The reason I'm asking is I still can't get hardware Flow Acceleration to be enabled. I'm only able to enable CTF (Cut Through Forwarding)... in yellow text.

- disabled QoS
- disable STP
- disabled HW Acc.
--> self reboot
- Enabled HW Acc.
--> self reboot

I just want to be sure that this is what I need to do in order to fully take advantage of my my Internet download speed of 1Gbps. Currently, I'm only getting 350Mbps. SMB file transfers between PC's are 930Mbps.