In my basement where my router sits under my desk is ~67-69 degrees F. Temperature may be a variable but imho not am important one unless you live in the desert.
I think one of the problems is how folks are reporting their speed. If you are measuring your speed via some online application, then you are not really measuring your router speed per se, but a combination of your service provider speed and your router speed. Plus, is that your maximum instantaneous or your average? How determined? _________________ WRT54G2V1
DD-WRT v24-sp2 (07/22/09) micro(SVN revision 12548M NEWD Eko)
I have two WRT54G2v1 routers. Both have DDWRT v24 sp2 14929 micro builds on them. I have an Ubuntu laptop literally right next to the router, and an android phone. The router is set up with WPA2 AES (I've tried WPA TKIP/AES, and WPA2 TKIP/AES)
I plug in one of the routers to the power. I can connect to it fine over wireless using my laptop. As soon as I do a speedtest.net, the router GUI reports wireless rate falls to 2mbps. Speedtest reports 1mbps down, 3+mbps up. This is on a T4 synchronous 4 down, 4 up connection.
If I plug in a wire and test over this, it's just fine - full 4down/4up.
If I test it using my phone, it tests fine *despite* the GUI reporting the low wireless transfer rate. It reads the full 4down/4up.
This is 100% reproducible on the other router.
This also happens on build 12548 NEWD Eko as well. Have not tried any other builds. I restored one of the routers back to stock firmware and updated it to the latest Linksys firmware. No issues. None.
I would chalk it up to old cruddy hardware except that the Linksys firmware works just fine. I would also attribute this to maybe some incompatibility with either Ubuntu OS, or the driver/wifi card in the laptop (more likely, since my android phone seems unaffected), but again, the current Linksys firmware doesn't exhibit this behavior. So even if any or all of the above were the case, the dd-wrt firmware is failing somehow, somewhere.
I've not tried any newer ddwrt firmware versions. Any suggestions?
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 22:50 Post subject: mixed mode
Switching from n,g mixed to mode g brought my down speed from 1mbps to full 20mbps (from wan) on an e2500. This maybe would apply to other routers as well? Firmware DD-WRT v24-sp2 (03/25/13) mini - build 21061. All other advanced wireless settings at default.