I've tried to shorten this, but it's still a long post.
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Originally Posted by ShadowTD
I copied some files over from my NAS (about 2.5GB) and experienced the same network performance I did with my old DG854. The wireless side has been an improvement as well with less dropouts and quicker reconnection.
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You EXPECT regular dropouts?
With 300Mbps wireless N, 100Mbps equivalent line performance should be normal even in areas with heavy WiFi traffic. No dropouts, same average transfer rates. The odd speed reduction is to be expected, but unexplained loss of connection when still well within range (in Windows, three bars and up) is not.
Sorry to lay into your post.
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Originally Posted by Horizon
Looks nice too.
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It does, doesn't it? The design is discreet and svelte.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I tried telling them the same on the dd-wrt forums, I told them 300mbit is fine on stock firmware and the wireless issue is a dd-wrt one, got shot down tho.
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It's a tough one to call because DD-WRT is exceptional, especially for free. IMO you're 100% right: DD-WRT wireless performance on the DIR-615s suffers regardless of revision.
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Originally Posted by Skie
Had a funny issue before, wireless on the hub decided to absolutely crawl while the wired connections were fine. Reboot sorted it, but I thought it was interference from another network at first (I've seen the same symptoms when a video-sender was turned on).
The hub could do with a reset button in the config pages, its in the attic!
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Yeah, I've had that problem a lot. Wireless is fine, then it slows and eventually stops working completely. As for the reset button, amusingly almost every other router (including non-Virginised Netgear ones) have web GUI options for this. As a workaround, one way to do it is make a bogus Static DHCP entry with fake MAC and save. Due to the poor way the firmware is programmed this causes an immediate reboot. Deleting these entries has the same effect.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Yeah, dd-wrt is a bit flaky still with Ralink SoC's
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DD-WRT support is "good enough" on the DIR-615 but as I'm spoilt by it being close to perfect on the WRT54G range I expected more. Going by the progress made in 2010, I'm sure by the end of 2011 it'll get there. BS/Eko know their stuff.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
In my limited testing I've hit line speed (95mbps) routing performance with dd-wrt with all additional features off, but once QoS is turned on it'll drop to about ~45mbps and hit 100% CPU.
Openwrt tends to do a lot better in routing performance and has better QoS anyway so once the wireless on it gets stable, that might be the better way to go.
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Daisy chaining routers means good QoS is needed on all to keep the network efficient, I would guess. With the DIR-615 running out of one ethernet port on the WRT54GS v2.1 there's only so much QoS control DD-WRT can do, of course. Not a problem now, but assuming an upgrade to 50Mbps and still having three SOHO routers it might be.
I'm tempted to dabble with OpenWRT. But stock firmware has been nice and reliable the past week, so not yet!
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
To be fair, you do seem to have had a pretty bad experience with the Superhub but it seems to be unusually bad rather than the norm.
Just to be sure, have you turned off all the security features?
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I hope it's just a faulty unit on my end, honestly. But increasingly it seems that the only time you don't have problems is if those in your household are "light" users with little LAN/WAN traffic.
I've done all the firewall tweaks and other limited changes you can make in the "advanced" side of the VM-branded Netgear firmware, yes. They delay the problem, but it turns up again soon enough.
Seems like classic Catch 22: to have the high speed broadband you must have the Super Hub, but if you have the Super Hub you can't make the most of it.
Still, I could be paying ~£130 for the Sky rainbow package, what with it's whopping 5Mbps broadband in my area.
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Wait, what... there's a 30Mbps package now? If I'd known that I would have held out on moving up from 10Mbps. Still, knowing the Super Hub my current setup with the old blue NTL badged Ambit 250 is still better.