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Matthew Patrick
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Ok. I msg hggomes privately. And he say that ac87u and ac3200 hardware are ready for 100%/1Watt . but please report now throughout speed and after doing it. And btw. See the range diffrence too. And last one. If after u make it 1Watt the speed decrease it might cuz the receiver overload . so test again but not NEAR the router. Like another room. Waiting ur test
Ok. I msg hggomes privately. And he say that ac87u and ac3200 hardware are ready for 100%/1Watt . but please report now throughout speed and after doing it. And btw. See the range diffrence too. And last one. If after u make it 1Watt the speed decrease it might cuz the receiver overload . so test again but not NEAR the router. Like another room. Waiting ur test
I turned it up to 80% and the range appears to be better but I did not do a thru-put test.
joegreat
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Pumping up the volume (transmission power) is only working like a one-way story towards the device - but keep in mind that the device (e.g. SmartPhone) need also more volume to shout back to the router...
To do the job done both directions there is no "magic 100% on router solution": In my case it's simply a second router in AP mode to have coverage AND to hear the devices shouting (getting full speed WLAN from/to the client devices)!
And: Do not forget to keep your router around the transmission limits of your country regulations - e.g. in Europe you an only run 100%/1 Watt for 5 GHz channels above no. 100...
Pumping up the volume (transmission power) is only working like a one-way story towards the device - but keep in mind that the device (e.g. SmartPhone) need also more volume to shout back to the router...
To do the job done both directions there is no "magic 100% on router solution": In my case it's simply a second router in AP mode to have coverage AND to hear the devices shouting (getting full speed WLAN from/to the client devices)!
And: Do not forget to keep your router around the transmission limits of your country regulations - e.g. in Europe you an only run 100%/1 Watt for 5 GHz channels above no. 100...
Thanks for the info. I don't want to push it past 100% as I don't want my new shiny router to die yet. I noticed on my old AC66U that when it's running at 100% it's already hot.
squirrellydw
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So since we can adjust TX power and choose channels that normally are not available. What are the best settings for a AC68U? Or does it depend on location and other variables and there is no one best setting? I've never had router that allows all these setting so it's all new to me.
If it helps I have
2 - iPhones 6
1 - Apple TV 3rd gen
2 - Apple Laptops, one 2007ish and one 2012ish
everything else is connected through ethernet cat 6
If it helps I have
2 - iPhones 6
1 - Apple TV 3rd gen
2 - Apple Laptops, one 2007ish and one 2012ish
everything else is connected through ethernet cat 6
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Matthew Patrick
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Cuz ur android devices or your laptop maybe using regulations mode. So it cant detect channels not on ur regulation. So please set channel from ethernet.then select the channels u want. But the channels that compatible with ur regulation. And . my own experience on 2 house. That on 5ghz select the lowest channel ur regulations can connect(so other device can connect) . and about that tx power only send to device and not increase tx to router , its right. But. If u do that. U get more signal. And even maybe on spot u didnt get wifi. U get wifi with still good download speed. But the upload is sucks. But if u just wanna use it for browsing or such? Why not? Btw u say that ur old router is hot? Where do you live(region)
steelskinz
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Build for RT-N16 is finally up !
alessandro893
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If you want to have good speeds on macbooks and best wifi coverage for all other devices, then install hggomes 378.55.4 firmware, Set TX Power to 100% (especially for 5Ghz), enable 802.11d, DTIM Interval = 1, Beacon Interval = 20, RTS Threshold to 1400-1600, choose channel 36 for 5G, disable WMM No-Acknowledgement in wifi>professional.
Enable all of this: WMM APSD, Optimize ack suppression, Enable WMM APSD, Airtime Fairness, 802.11ac Beamforming, Universal Beamforming, Optimize AMPDU aggregation.
Turn on adaptive qos (do not turn on traditional or fw acceleration will be turned off)
Overclock it. I overclocked my to 1400 mhz cpu, 800 mhz ddr (bogomips 2798)
AC68U
Overclocking will not provide substantial gain on network (tx/rx) related performance. Only decyphering of VPN keys might benefit a tiny bit.
Universal beamforming could slow down performance on AC connections.
See other topics on this board for these remarks.
Also some additional reading: http://www.rickygao.com/tuning-the-asus-wireless-router-to-best-performance/
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alessandro893
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"Overclocking" will gain performance, especially if you have a big amount of wireless clients, DDR throughput increases. Our routers are working under linux, so all applications, processes, daemons will be performed in less time period.
Universal beamforming couldn't slow down macbooks with AC (I have MBR), but improves RSSI on Apple IOS devices (ipod/ipad/iphone)
TESTED!
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alessandro893
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These are readily discussed on the forum. Like it is mentioned. Haven't seen any 'proof' that overclocking enhances networking either.
http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-380-57-is-now-available.29308/page-11#post-226958
http://www.snbforums.com/threads/ov...rt-ac68u-and-rt-n66u.28043/page-4#post-218369
to just name a few
alessandro893
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I can write opposed position, my AC68U runs/boot up faster and have better response without any errors with overclock and 12cm fan at the back side.
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Perception/feeling is not really proof. GUI responsiveness is nice, but that's not really what you buy a router for. Sounds a bit like "the GUI looks nicer with other colors". The calculations in the posts do provide some more reliable evidence, wouldn't you think.
But by all means, overclock it. As long as you believe it works better, it works for you. But overall the added value has not been proven. It's a bit like religion
alessandro893
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If cpu clock rate didn't affect on performance, so tell me why asus made AC88U with 1400mhz BCM4709C0 cpu? They can use old 1000mhz BCM4709A0Perception/feeling is not really proof. GUI responsiveness is nice, but that's not really what you buy a router for. Sounds a bit like "the GUI looks nicer with other colors". The calculations in the posts do provide some more reliable evidence, wouldn't you think.
But by all means, overclock it. As long as you believe it works better, it works for you. But overall the added value has not been proven. It's a bit like religion
Because it needs to manage more radios and Quantenna code.
No man it's not. It's what wifi offloader cpus are for, installed in many of the modern routers. They started implementing them only on the 5Ghz band because of higher bandwidth, now those offload cpus are there for 2,4Ghz networks as well.But by all means, overclock it. As long as you believe it works better, it works for you. But overall the added value has not been proven. It's a bit like religion
They leave more CPU cycles for TCP/IP. By a rule of thumb of 1hz of CPU processing is required to receive 1bit/s of TCP/IP. Thus overclocking will give more 'horsepower' to wifi connected devices too, particularly those on the 5Ghz band.
Happy networking!
There's plenty of overhead with default CPU speeds. Unless you have >500/500 Mbit WAN connections. But that's not something the majority will have.
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