Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 15:42 Post subject: WNR3500L Lan limited to 100mbit?
WNR3500L working fantastically however I've noticed I can not get a better transfer speed than 100mbit between hosts even though they are all connected to the router with gigabit.
Iperf always reports 99.5-100mbit throughput. Am I missing something?
No, LAN is gigabit on the WNR3500L and you surely have a gigabit link between your clients since Fast Ethernet (100Mbit) will not give you more than around 80Mbit effectively.
Low quality ethernet cables is the first thing to suspect followed by bottlenecks in the clients due to file system, client overall load, hard disk or hard disk controller limits. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Your traffic between the 4 LAN ports is not handled by dd-wrt unless you have created your own VLAN's on them in which case software routes the traffic between them.
Default is that the switch handles the traffic in hardware.
You need at least Cat5E marked cables for gigabit ports, preferably Cat6.
Test by connecting your computers to an external gigabit switch and check if you get any higher bandwidth - I doubt you will. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
What hard drive can provide read speeds of 1 GB/second? You're going to be limited by the slowest bottleneck in whatever you're trying to do. Do you know if Windows TCP/IP stack can even provide data to the network at the max read speed of a SSD (250 mb/sec)?
