Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:01 Post subject: WRT54GL - dd-wrt slower compared to original Linksys FW ?
Original showed a healthy 20 Mbit/s speed over WLAN to the laptop from the broadband connection, pretty much what a direct cable connection gives.
I then flashed the latest generic dd-wrt to replace the original on this v1.1 router. I then noticed I only got speeds up to 15 Mbit/s or so. Several trials showed this consistently. I was then able to revert back to the original Linksys fw downloaded from the linksys site.
Speeds were then back at 20 Mbit/s.
Should I have persevered and proceeded to flash something else than the generic dd-wrt ?
What causes the difference ? Is the Linksys f/w perhaps using some SpeedBooster feature missing in the generic dd-wrt ? Thanks for comments, /gunnar
I get exactly the same change when using DD-WRT. Direct connections to the cable modem get speeds around 20-22mbps; with my Tomato/Buffalo router, I get about the same; but with DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54Gv2 and the vpn build, I get only 15 or so.
Yes for some users (such as myself) the original Linksys f/w is just perfectly ok. I don't see any reason to upgrade to something else (especially if it slows down capacity) since the original does all I need, and has done so for several months now. I hear Tomato should provide capacity, but
still; original does its thing.
Tomato is much faster, nearly as fast as directly connecting to the cable modem. I wanted DD-WRT for the openVPN functionality, and I'll still use it at another location with a slower connection that hopefully won't be slowed down. It's disappointing -- I was so impressed with the featureset. Try Tomato, though.
Tomato is based on Linksys code which is why it has nearly same (or better?) throughput as Linksys firmware. AFAIK, DD-WRT firmware is based off of OpenWRT code.
