Don't forget that the new CPU also saw a clock increase of 400 MHz. That's probably where the thermal gains went.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does having an increased clock speed actually do for a router?
The temps on my RT-AC88U are:Can someone post there AC3100 cpu and radio temps ?
The temps on my RT-AC88U are:
2.4 GHz: 32°C - 5 GHz: 38°C - CPU: 48°C
Yes. I have a laptop cooler under the router. It was needed when I had the RT-AC87U which runs hot. I am now using it on the RT-AC88U.Are you using active cooling ? Just got my new 3100 today working well so far. Here are my temps at least they are cooler then my old 68U.
2.4 GHz: disabled - 5 GHz: 45°C - CPU: 71°C
I use the stock firmware(3.0.0.4.380_858) so only can see the CPU temp but its been averaging 73C. I am very happy with the stability of this router so far.Can someone post there AC3100 cpu and radio temps ?
Merlin, quick question. What hardware does the actual NAT processing?Improves performance primarily for:
- VPN server and clients
- USB disk sharing (it was CPU-limited in the past)
- People running apps such as Download Master
- People with fast WAN but who cannot use NAT acceleration
Has about no performance impact on wifi (especially with the newer Broadcom SoC where the wifi SoC have their own dedicated CPU now) or LAN traffic (which is switched).
Merlin, quick question. What hardware does the actual NAT processing?
If the 1.4Ghz ARM cores are not handling packet by packet processing, the extra performance might be able to handle a media server such as Twonky or Plex.
Both run well on a Raspberry Pi's quad core ARM at 900Mhz.
Granted 2 cores vs 4 but this level of performance might be at the point where they are possible.
NAT is done by the Linux kernel, which runs on the CPU. With NAT acceleration enabled, even a 600 MHz single core CPU can reach near gigabit performance. The 1.4 GHz CPU would only matter if you were forced to keep NAT acceleration disabled.
What that NAT acceleration mostly does is bypass sections of the kernel, to improve throughput performance.
But the firmware seems to have issues with getting upnp to work if you have NAT Acceleration enabled / automatic. Me and my buddy are both running the Asus RT-AC68U and I'm running Merlin 378.56_2 and he is running the latest official one from Asus and we both struggled with Moderate and Strict NAT with the Rainbow Six Siege BETA with upnp enabled and the only way we managed to get it to be Open NAT was to disabled the NAT Acceleration. That worked for the both of us, with it enabled it seemed like upnp was not functioning correctly.
If you can set up IPv6, you won't need to turn off the NAT acceleration : IPV6 addresses don't use NAT or UPNP because each device has its own public address. Xbox one prefers to use IPV6 and will immediately go full Open because there is no NAT.But the firmware seems to have issues with getting upnp to work if you have NAT Acceleration enabled / automatic. Me and my buddy are both running the Asus RT-AC68U and I'm running Merlin 378.56_2 and he is running the latest official one from Asus and we both struggled with Moderate and Strict NAT with the Rainbow Six Siege BETA with upnp enabled and the only way we managed to get it to be Open NAT was to disabled the NAT Acceleration. That worked for the both of us, with it enabled it seemed like upnp was not functioning correctly.
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