Pierre Nakashian
Regular Contributor
its not an issue it requires a lot of cpu to perform those tasks at that speed. What you could do is keep bringing your upload and download down until its leaving some cpu cycles and not riding at 100%. in all honesty 1gbps is insane an not needed unless its critical to download large work related stuff or movies instantly. by bringing it down u may not utilize you full speeds but it will be able to manage it properly with the smoothness of a babys bum! haha
If it were me that's what I would do.. try 500up 500down and see how that works
bare in mine the internet right now is badly jammed and there are widescale internet pauses for a few secs here and there that nothing you can do will fix until people back to school work etc.
Thanks for the tips, this has been a learning experience, this router is so cpu bound I turned off qos, uninstalled
freshjr as well.
By disabling these 2 services I posted earlier
adaptive qos->bandwidth monitor->App analysis,
traffic analyzer->Statistics-> traffic analyzer -statistic
and reverting my firmware to 384.15 from 384.16 from the other thread I seemed to have gotten rid of all 100% cpu spikes i was having even before the QoS setup I experimented with. Highest % cpu I'm getting now is 80% on 1 core, while the other is at 25%. I'd bet without those cpu spikes Skype should not have the original issue anymore, loosing shared screen or robot sounding audio. I have also tested streaming 4k and amazon music simultaneously with no issue now. Even dslreports.com/speedtest stress testing affected only 1 cpu core now, 75% while the other cpu core was not affected. overall grade was A, bufferbloat was b, but you can't tell from using the networking services.
In the future I'll have to pay close attention what features I turn on this router and it's impact to cpu.
I'm happy with result now.
Thanks
/Pierre