My primary concern with this router, RT-N56U, is the r/w speed of the USB HDD. I have seen people reference speeds increasing or decreasing with various ASUS and padavan versions, and I think the most recent padavan version someone mentioned a decrease in speed that they were unable to fix.
I am not using any of the niftier features on the router. I just use it to route my slow DSL (6 down/1.5 up), I'm not a gamer, I don't stream movies in my house. I just want to have a good networked HD, without shelling out more money for a NAS.
I have formatted my HDD as EXT3.
So, what is your opinion of which (stable) firmware has the fastest USB speeds? Or conversely, which do you know to be bad?
I'm fine with any developer, padavan, ASUS, DD-WRT, Tomatoe, etc
Last edited by snash22; 11-24-2012 at 05:07 PM.
Reason: corrected EXT3 reference
Maybe my problem is not the FW, but it is my expectations.
I ran a test and I found that when wired, I download from my USB at about 15MB/s.
When wireless, it is about 5MB/s.
When during the test, I was about 5 feet from the router, no wall between us.
I tried it on the 5g, and the 2.4g networks.
Should it be about the same speed wired or wireless?
Is there any setting I can change to improve the USB speed?
That's about as good as it gets. These routers have pretty weak CPUs, and their USB controllers aren't as high performance as those found on a regular motherboard.
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That's about as good as it gets. These routers have pretty weak CPUs, and their USB controllers aren't as high performance as those found on a regular motherboard.
True, I understand this isn't a NAS, so my expectations should be low.
But why would it be 3x faster wired than wireless?
True, I understand this isn't a NAS, so my expectations should be low.
But why would it be 3x faster wired than wireless?
Not knowing which speed your wireless is connected at, it's impossible to tell.
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I wish I could give you a technical reason why the wireless transfers are slower, but I can't.
I've just accepted wireless transfers (up or down) are slow. BUT, I can say the rates are fast enough to steam 1080p vids to my TV, which is fine by me
Can anyone do a few USB tests comparing wired and wireless USB speeds?
It seems to me that there should be no difference, assuming the wireless is set up properly.
If everyone has this trouble, perhaps this could be an issue to be raised with the FW developers. Or if only some people have the problem we could look for differences.
Padavan's latest firmware (3.0.3.3-038) is a major improvement for wired USB speed and a modest improvement for wireless.
Wired it went up from 15MB/s to 25MB/s!
Wireless it went from 5MB/s to 6MB/s.
From the changelog:
- Added support scatter/gather DMA to Ralink Ethernet driver (raeth). S/G DMA allow boost local TX traffic up to 2x times. Read speed now up to ~21MB/s (from USB2), up to ~34MB/s (from USB3). Drop ASUS binary raeth_asus.obj.
Best Firmware for USB Speed
Linear Mode
