I just bumped my Internet speeds with my provider up to 110/10 from 50/5, and found I was seeing a bottleneck with the E2000. I could do no better than about 68 Mbps. I entered the startup commands but they only added about 10% to the speed (up to about 80 Mbps). CPU load averages were exceeding 1.00 (as high as 1.60) while running a speed test.
I ended up overclocking to 450 MHz and speeds increased to where I am now up at 102 Mbps. I tried overclocking up to 500 MHz but saw no improvement, so I knocked it back a bit. Load averages now stay below 1.00.
Curiously, loads do not spike nearly as much when doing a speedtest via wireless. But, wireless was still restricted to the same speeds, and had the same improvement, after I made these changes.
I just bumped my Internet speeds with my provider up to 110/10 from 50/5, and found I was seeing a bottleneck with the E2000. I could do no better than about 68 Mbps. I entered the startup commands but they only added about 10% to the speed (up to about 80 Mbps). CPU load averages were exceeding 1.00 (as high as 1.60) while running a speed test.
I ended up overclocking to 450 MHz and speeds increased to where I am now up at 102 Mbps.
Interesting benchmarks; what build are you using? Are you aware DD has SFE now in kernel 3.10+ (accelerated NAT; see my footer for details); 33006 and 33215 are working for most but see their "New Build" threads. 33006 worked for the E1500 and E2500, so the average should ok too, right? If you flash DD, be sure to also read the Peacock announcement, router model thread(s), and it's wiki. For builds, see Builds in my footer (many wikis now reference defunct links).
I am using an older build on this E2000 (DD-WRT v24-sp2 (05/27/13) mega - build 21676), but it has proven to be incredibly stable for me. (I do remote server admin work remotely from my office at home, so I do not want to try anything that might be unstable or brick it.) It has worked so well that I never gave any further thought to attempting any upgrades.
In one of your links, I found a thread with a post by Kong, saying to try this:
nvram set et_dispatch_mode=1
I just gave that a try, and now I am getting my full speed. I also notice the download speed in the speedtest does not fluctuate wildly like it did before--it appears to be a lot more solid. My speeds now are 121/10 (I'm paying for 110/10). Pings have degraded slightly as expected (18-20ms before, 27-30ms after) but I can live with that. I've had worse ping times over the years and never noticed any ill effects.
Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12885 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 16:16 Post subject:
Stick to 33215 more recent builds are probably to big.
Always reset to default and put your settings in manually.
You can use the Gui to update.
You come from a very old build, some people advice to take intermediate steps.
If you are on a k2.6 build, first upload k2.6 mini build 21676, then load k3.x 21676, then k3.x 33215.
If you flash DD, be sure to also read the Peacock announcement, router model thread(s), and it's wiki. For builds, see Builds in my footer (many wikis now reference defunct links).
