cartera
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Hello all,
I have been playing around with my home network of late and noticed some surprising (at least as far as I'm concerned) results.
For work I require a hardware VPN so I was using a Sonicwall TZ100W as my firewall and a asus rt-n56u as a access point because the TZ100's wireless is pants. With this my peak download rate was 45Mbps and upload 15Mbps.
I then bought a linksys E900 and flashed it with DD-WRT and used that instead of the Sonicwall, as soon as I plugged it in I noticed a 10Mbps increase in my download rate. Upload increase was neglible if any.
I then decided I wanted to change from having a firewall and AP to a all in one solution since there was no real need to have both so I bought a Asus RT-N66U, flashed it with DD-WRT. Now this router is amazing and I can't rate it enough, with DD-WRT it is off the charts! Much to my surprise I now had a peak bandwidth of 70Mbps down and 18Mbps up which is what my ISP originally quoted me when I got the line.
The results from the RT-N66U you could say is not surprising with it being a far superior router but the E900 vs. a TZ100? I'm confused, somebody please enlighten me.
Oh, and the setup on E900 and the Asus is identical.
Alastair
I have been playing around with my home network of late and noticed some surprising (at least as far as I'm concerned) results.
For work I require a hardware VPN so I was using a Sonicwall TZ100W as my firewall and a asus rt-n56u as a access point because the TZ100's wireless is pants. With this my peak download rate was 45Mbps and upload 15Mbps.
I then bought a linksys E900 and flashed it with DD-WRT and used that instead of the Sonicwall, as soon as I plugged it in I noticed a 10Mbps increase in my download rate. Upload increase was neglible if any.
I then decided I wanted to change from having a firewall and AP to a all in one solution since there was no real need to have both so I bought a Asus RT-N66U, flashed it with DD-WRT. Now this router is amazing and I can't rate it enough, with DD-WRT it is off the charts! Much to my surprise I now had a peak bandwidth of 70Mbps down and 18Mbps up which is what my ISP originally quoted me when I got the line.
The results from the RT-N66U you could say is not surprising with it being a far superior router but the E900 vs. a TZ100? I'm confused, somebody please enlighten me.
Oh, and the setup on E900 and the Asus is identical.
Alastair