I have the latest Asuswrt-Merlin on my AC68U and DDWRT-kong on my EA6400. trying to copy a 4G iso file from the usb3 drive on AC68U to the usb3 drive on EA6400 through 5Ghz bridge (ddwrt showing TX/RX rate at around 780M-877M), the transfer speed is only around 8MB/s (according to windows 7 on my computer which is hard wired to AC68U). Is it normal? then what's the point to have usb3.0 port...
I have the latest Asuswrt-Merlin on my AC68U and DDWRT-kong on my EA6400. trying to copy a 4G iso file from the usb3 drive on AC68U to the usb3 drive on EA6400 through 5Ghz bridge (ddwrt showing TX/RX rate at around 780M-877M), the transfer speed is only around 8MB/s (according to windows 7 on my computer which is hard wired to AC68U). Is it normal? then what's the point to have usb3.0 port...
I have a 500gb Western Digital HDD, connected with a Usb 3.0 cable and I get around 12.3MB/s when transferring a 2gb file.
I am on Merlin, I do recall getting around 11-ish Mb/s.
In my case it can be obviously faster, but the speed of the mechanical hard drive is slow. I think it all depends on the speed of the storage
This is over 5Ghz wireless, I'd imagine it should be faster over ethernet. _________________ Linksys EA6400/6300v1 Guide
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I have a Linksys EA6400, it says EA6400 in both places on the bottom sticker.
It is currently on stock firmware version 1.1.40.160989
The stock firmware apparently has intermittent performance especially for those on the 2.4Ghz band.
I have also noticed less than stellar page loading times on my wired connection, compared to the E2000 that it replaced with Shibby Tomato that I had put on it.
I suspect this EA6400 might have the temperature issues, but I have yet to even find a temperature readout in the stock firmware.
So, bottom line, I would like better and reliable performance and a temp meter. Not doing anything fancy with this router like vpn or bridging. Might do some QOS to make sure my traffic gets priority over the various leeches in my office. That's about it.
Should I do it? If I bricks I still have the E2000.
Don't do it. Odds are you will end up with a useless router.
If it's overheating, put a fan on it or open it up, make sure the heatsink is making good contact. Or add thermal tape if needed. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
@BrainSlayer Any more required to find out hte problem?
So the behavior is, a brand new router bought from Amazon, at least Amazon told me it's new, can run stock firmware smoothly and change/save settings normally in stock.
But when flash the super hacky version into it, without the serial cable, I can only see it reboots itself 3 times and reverts back to stock firmware (Thanks for dual partitions).
So the point is, there is no way to continue the flash..
Finally I bought a serial cable. During dump nvram, surprisingly, I found the nvram is only 6k with stock firmware.
Then I found a nvram dump in this long thread. In Putty, I put a script full of "nvram set" into stock firmware. And then, flash the router with TFTP to the super hacky version.
In this step, I used my own uuid and mac address.
After restarting for a few times, it had a stable web interface of dd wrt.
I used DD-WRT Kong on this router 6 months back for at least a year, but I reverted to stock after a failed Kong version update. I have been thinking about going back to Kong or trying Merlin. However, when I try to flash the Hacky version, it won't let me because it is not signed by Linksys. My stock firmware is Ver. 1.1.40 (build 176337) Latest Date: 10/28/2016. Clearly the router automatically updated the firmware. But now I can't seem to back down to an older version of the firmware or move sideways to DD-WRT. My main complaint with stock is the intermittent lack of internet with iPhone/iPad devices. Could be Apple, but I don't recall the problem with Kong. Any help?
And yes I have the Koolshare CFE running on my router and the stock CFE backed-up. _________________ WRT-54G V6 & V8 - wrt.v24_micro_generic.bin
Linksys E1200 v2 - Tomato by Shabby (DD-WRT has problems)
EA6300 V1 - Kong+CFE http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/K3-AC-Arm/dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin
I used DD-WRT Kong on this router 6 months back for at least a year, but I reverted to stock after a failed Kong version update. I have been thinking about going back to Kong or trying Merlin. However, when I try to flash the Hacky version, it won't let me because it is not signed by Linksys. My stock firmware is Ver. 1.1.40 (build 176337) Latest Date: 10/28/2016. Clearly the router automatically updated the firmware. But now I can't seem to back down to an older version of the firmware or move sideways to DD-WRT. My main complaint with stock is the intermittent lack of internet with iPhone/iPad devices. Could be Apple, but I don't recall the problem with Kong. Any help?
And yes I have the Koolshare CFE running on my router and the stock CFE backed-up.
I do believe that the new firmware's released after Linksys made changes to signature checking does disable firmware downgrading or flashing custom firmware.
Umm. If you are on stock cfe, I wonder if tftp would flash the firmware, I guess the router can't do signature checking on that?
However, seeing you still have Koolshare cfe running; it's just possible to use Asus firmware restoration utility to restore a DD-WRT firmware back onto the router.
This has been done a couple of times on this thread. Search around and you should find it (I personally did this a long time ago; I cannot remember how it was done.
Edit:
Found instructions, look below.
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EDIT 10/5/2015
One user had an issue at this point that caused the router to revert back to the linksys firmware. Also was unable to access the webpage as it was stuck on the "Spinning Icon"
In order to fix this do the following
Should be done after those steps, wait a bit for the dd-wrt variables to initialize ans for the firmware to be stable (roughly 10~15 minutes after flashing).
The rescue tool is the same for all Asus router's and works for ours fine with the modified cfe's. Sometimes the router does not boot into rescue mode, so do try repeating the steps of holding the reset button a bit longer. It is also important that the ipv4 settings are manually configured on Windows to those IP addresses; the static IP allows the utility to communicate with the router in rescue mode. After this is done, you can safely change this back to automatic ip assignment.
The firmware is NOT the rt-n16 but the one you will download from DD-WRT for EA6400. And there is no rescue mode button on your router, it is the reset button. _________________ Linksys EA6400/6300v1 Guide
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Well I've thought that my change to certregion in cfe from us to eu did the thing, but maybe not xD
Any ideas how to fix it?
I have updated to x7.2, still problem with translation for me.
That variable changes the Wi-Fi channel configuration to see the channels and frequencies available in the eu region.
I believe this latest version has the translation hard coded as they did re-work the UI a lot compared to the previous version.
If you want the English statistics, you can use the previous versions before the X7.x releases, like http://firmware.koolshare.cn/merlin_qin_firmware/EA6400/X6.6.1/ which does not include the new changes for the UI rework (e.g. NoAsus feature and webshell changes).
Do bear in mind this was built for the Chinese community and that if you install modules from their Koolshare base, it's mainly to circumvent the Chinese firewall. I recommend not to install any of the Koolshare addons (those in software center) if you want a close to stock merlin firmware.
I personally use Merlin, as it's much more stable for my HP laptop which would disconnect a lot, due to it's glitchy RT3290 card. With Linksys and DD-Wrt it would always glitch out every half an hour or so, with Merlin, it doesn't as much...
Also, Koolshare will be using another domain which looks exactly like the one now for firmware releases, it's http://firmware.koolshare.cn/merlin_qin_firmware/EA6400/ and not koolshare.io (should redirect though)
According to various posts on Koolshare, X7.1 had issues with Qos, and that X7.2 helps them a bit more. Has a couple of tweaks with wifi as well. Nothing much from X7.1 _________________ Linksys EA6400/6300v1 Guide
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BRAS PROFILE: 76.2MBPS DOWN / 20 MBPS UP
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BT HomeHub 5A - Wireless AP Extender
BT Openreach Modem ECI - Unlocked OpenWrt 15.05