N66U - Latency Issues on League of Legends

[MonsterGunther]

Recently I installed AsusMerlin 380.69, so far I was using the official without any issues but I decided to try.
Simple setup, 1 PC wired and a phone over WiFi. Reboot router before installin the firmware, did a factory reset after and that was pretty much all the customization.

But..when I begun playing League of Legends without getting Ping spikes (I'm around 37-39ms) suddenly the connection dropped, on and off, sometimes was Ok and other times it was unplayable.
-QoS is disabled
-HW NAT is disabled
-Firewall is disabled

any other ideas of what can it be? Or should I rollback to the original firm, because this one is not suited for Gaming?

 

[adampk17]

I think you’d want both HW NAT and the firewall enabled. Can’t say that has a thing to do with your issue but it’d be worth a shot.

 

[MonsterGunther]

I think you’d want both HW NAT and the firewall enabled. Can’t say that has a thing to do with your issue but it’d be worth a shot.

Already did, Firewall Enabled and NAT Accelerator on Auto.

 

[MonsterGunther]

Well tried it all. I'll have to rollback to the previous firmware, utter piece of shirt.

 

[DonnyJohnny]

Well tried it all. I'll have to rollback to the previous firmware, utter piece of shirt.

No one ask you to use the firmware. Did you pay for the service?
People tried to assist you. Not even a thank you from your shirtty mouth.

 

[RMerlin]

any other ideas of what can it be? Or should I rollback to the original firm, because this one is not suited for Gaming?

The issue is your setup, not the firmware. Wifi performance is identical to the stock firmware because it's the exact same driver, with the same configuration code.

For starter, you have HW nat disabled, which WILL reduce performance...

You also disable the firewall, which you should NOT ever do unless troubleshooting something.

 

[M@rco]

I'll have to rollback to the previous firmware...

Please do roll back to stock, so you can find out you're having the exact same issues (with less functionality). Your problem lies elsewhere, not within Asuswrt-Merlin.

...utter piece of shirt.

Oh wow, that's really constructive feedback and definitely showing appreciation for all the years of voluntary effort which has gone into it. You might as well stick with stock firmware, no one is really waiting for Gunthers monstrous comments...

 

[Vexira]

Well tried it all. I'll have to rollback to the previous firmware, utter piece of shirt.

Tried replacing the unit with an 86u?
Also you forgot to factory reset the box.

 

[MonsterGunther]

The issue is your setup, not the firmware. Wifi performance is identical to the stock firmware because it's the exact same driver, with the same configuration code.

For starter, you have HW nat disabled, which WILL reduce performance...

You also disable the firewall, which you should NOT ever do unless troubleshooting something.

Setup is fine, it was working 30 min. before installing the new firmware. I disabled those things just to check if that was the issue, did my share of google+snb forum before posting this. BTW, if HW NAT is NAT Accelerator then I have two options, disabled and Auto. Its set on Auto.

Tried replacing the unit with an 86u?
Also you forgot to factory reset the box.

My unit was working fine, why replacing it? Also, no I don't have an 86U around. I did a factory reset after the installation, it's on my first post

Please do roll back to stock, so you can find out you're having the exact same issues (with less functionality). Your problem lies elsewhere, not within Asuswrt-Merlin.

Oh wow, that's really constructive feedback and definitely showing appreciation for all the years of voluntary effort which has gone into it. You might as well stick with stock firmware, no one is really waiting for Gunthers monstrous comments...

If this is a support forum and I gave all the information I had about my issue, then, the feedback is what you (the other guys) are supposed to give, amirite? In any case, money on the donation bucket is a better way to "show appreciation" you know, thanks you don't pay the bills. Kiddo.

 

[adampk17]

Have you checked temps? Maybe they are getting high and the CPU is throttling. The fact that the router “was working for 30 mins” on the stock firmware isn’t a super great test.

 

[MonsterGunther]

Have you checked temps? Maybe they are getting high and the CPU is throttling. The fact that the router “was working for 30 mins” on the stock firmware isn’t a super great test.

No, the router was working on stock firmware since 2013 (of course it was updated regularly), when I bought it. IMHO seems that some packets are dropped during the game. I don't torrent nor stream netflix/youtube while playing windows is up to date, and no antivirus interferes

• Temps. around 54 degrees celsius
• Core around 3-4%
• No USB drive plugged
• QoS disabled

 

[Stephen Becker]

Have you tried leaving a ping /t running during the game to see if the drops correspond to increased ping time?
I like to leave two pings at the same time, one pinging the router (to test WiFI) and then other pinging Google's DNS 8.8.4.4 (to test the internet).

It would also be worth testing over a wired connection. You might need to change channels on WiFi.

 

[MonsterGunther]

Have you tried leaving a ping /t running during the game to see if the drops correspond to increased ping time?
I like to leave two pings at the same time, one pinging the router (to test WiFI) and then other pinging Google's DNS 8.8.4.4 (to test the internet).

It would also be worth testing over a wired connection. You might need to change channels on WiFi.

I'm using a wired connection, will try Ping to google while playing, thanks

 

[MonsterGunther]

Well, after a few weeks trying to find a solution I can say there's something on this firmware that causes problem with online games like League of Legends. I reinstalled the old firmware and problem was gone, also with Merlin firmware I left a window doing ping to google while playing and 0% packets were lost. Don't know if any of you guys play LoL or any other game but have this issue in mind. cheers

PING www.google.com (64.233.190.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.190.104: seq=0 ttl=46 time=147.286 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.190.104: seq=1 ttl=46 time=34.610 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.190.104: seq=2 ttl=46 time=33.006 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.190.104: seq=3 ttl=46 time=33.942 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.190.104: seq=4 ttl=46 time=41.206 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 33.006/58.010/147.286 ms