Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:29 Post subject: rt-n16 wan port speed
I have the RT-N16 with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (12/24/10) big
(SVN revision 15962). I have FIOS as my ISP. I used to have the actiontec router as the gateway and just used the n16 to provide n-wireless and to use optware. I finally wired up the connection from the ONT outside with the ethernet port and hooked up the n16 as the gateway with the AT behind it. Everything seems to work fine except that nothing goes through the WAN faster than 10Mbps. If I disconnect everything from the router except the WAN and a single PC it doesn't do any better. If I connect the ethernet back up to the actiontec it can get up to 30mbps. I get the same with it if it's hooked directly to a PC. When I had the AT as a gateway with the N16 behind the speed was around that same 30 through the wireless but I just didn't want to deal with the actiontec router interface which is why I didn't want to use it as gateway any longer. It seems this problem doesn't have anything to do with FIOS but I give that information as background just incase.
Well I ended up doing a bunch of stuff...I think what actually worked was to reset my ONT by taking the battery out, unplugging for 5 seconds, and plugging back in. Wish I did that earlier.