The WAN download speed is very low compared with stock firmware v1. With the firewall and also the QoS disabled the speed improves quite a lot but never to the levels of stock firmware. Do you have any ideas to improve the wan speed?
Some people report 120Mbps WAN - LAN speeds but maybe you have a 400Mbps internet connection or something?
I have 120Mbps internet connection.
With stock firmware I reach easily 14.20 Mbytes/sec with dd-wrt firmware I only reach 10.10 Mbytes/sec with firewall and QoS turned off. I have made this test just plugging one and other router downloading the same content from the same source.
I just want all firmwares so I can test the one with best performance...and I usualy do keep all incase I need them. I do the same for BIOS on computers....
Hi,
the fastest one is
FW_E4200_1.0.01.010_US_20110221_code.bin
I use two E4200. One as Accec Point on this orignal
Firmware 1.0.01.10 and one, the second one, with ddwrt configured als Client-Bridge.
The 1.0.02.xx or 1.0.00.xx drops the Speed round about 10%. The 1.0.01.010 is the fastest at moment.
Installed MEGA (16994) on E4200, noticed the 5GHz channel cannot be set correctly, it go back to auto every time.
Also notice the WAN speed is slow when using Wired connection. I am on 1000M Fiber network, when bypassing router can reach 1000M+ download and 500M upload. When I have router in place, the download speed dropped to 120M download, 90M upload.
Is there any setting can improve the wan to lan speed?
thx
That was posted a while back with others mentioning this:
hessie2k wrote:
As far as I can tell the current (16994) build works well, even 5 GHz wifi.
The only problem is the performance because CTF is still missing in dd-wrt. So you get a maximum of 100-120MBit/s WAN-LAN or WAN-WLAN routing.
I'm still waiting for a CTF release as I have 150mb cable here..
So apparently without CTF or some magic pixie dust we wont get much faster.
The 1.0.02.xx or 1.0.00.xx drops the Speed round about 10%. The 1.0.01.010 is the fastest at moment.
Do you mean fastest by wireless or through the router NAT/SPI ?
I got around 22-24MBytes/sec wireless from my macbook pro running windows 7 on the internal broadcom card. That translates to around 250 Mbit wireless true throughput. I think that is amazing considering I am around 10 meter ( 1 wall and 1 floor wooden) away from the router. 10% faster there would make a big difference.
I've got my E4200 serving about 9 computers, with the farthest being around probably 150-200 feet away.
I know the wiki recommends a value of around ~50mW transmitting power for each antenna, but it seems like if I set it below about 65mW I keep losing connection from the farther computers. I had it at 71mW for a while which was good for a while, but it's recently started dropping connections to other computers randomly and it takes them a while to be able to reconnect, even though other computers are still working fine. I'm going to raise the power and see what that does.