RT-N66U Dark Knight

[Section1ops]

So My daughter and I game and my wife starts watching Netflix and we lag, I recently upgraded my Internet to 90 Mbps to attempt to offset this problem. Upon doing a Internet Speed test I'm only getting 9-10 Mbps Down / 6-8 Mbps up on our wired gaming clients. I only have 2 iPads @ 5 Ghz and a Roku @ 2.4 Ghz that may use the wireless, but never have issues with them.

So I bypassed the router and direct wired my gaming rig into the Modem and the internet speed test was 96 Mbps down / 32-38 Mbps up.

So what am I doing wrong ?

Stock Firmware from box and I hear of all these people using this Merlin - any suggestions

 

[CooCooCaChoo]

Turn off QoS. With a 90Mb/s connection, you should not even need this turned on.

The firmware I recommend for the N66 is the 35-4 SDK5 merlin firmware. Its stable, reliable and has good performance, albeit some features are not working properly which you may or may not need to use.

 

[Section1ops]

OK, let me try this tonight and I'll get back with you

 

[RMerlin]

If you had QoS enabled, make sure you didn't enter the connection rate as MBps instead of Mbps. That could explain why your tests are slower by a factor of 10.

 

[Section1ops]

Well I checked and QoS was off already, so that's not gonna be a factor.

I would think that at least the wired ethernet computers would have higher Mbps than 10.

I have not enabled the latest firmware although there is an update available via the Browser panel. That would be an official ASUS firmware though I'm guessing. I was lead to these forums through a Google search for slow internet test speeds specific to my ASUS router.

Not familiar with this Merlin Firmware, I'm assuming this is a open source product ? I will have to check these forums for what, and where I guess.

I'm maybe gonna do a Factory reset to the router and see if anything changes, prior to updating my Firmware.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Irrespective of your firmware version you should easily be getting 100Mbps+ on your wired connections. I do, on the same hardware as you.

 

[F5ing]

Not familiar with this Merlin Firmware, I'm assuming this is a open source product ? I will have to check these forums for what, and where I guess.

Check out the top two sticky threads in this same subforum for more info.