TL-WR1043ND Gargoyle performance

[NJI]

I think the idea is to prove whether your bandwidth increases past 4-5 MB/s using any of these different channels.

is it going to make a big difference? probably these networks will change to other channels as well

Can I disable the firewall to increase throughput? Actually, I tried

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/etc/init.d/firewall disable

but I also lost the internet connection if the firewall is off

[mix]

Most routers don't change channels automatically. In any case, the fact you are having stability issues (as you noted in another thread) as well as throughput issues doesn't bode well for the current wifi drivers included in the latest Gargoyle firmware (as well as OpenWRT). Eric seems to include the latest and greatest OpenWRT revision with each Gargoyle release, so whenever this gets fixed in OpenWRT, it should get fixed here.

[ispyisail]

If your into risk

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... 2012#p8916

[jaykumar2001]

Any performance improvement in 1.4.4 or 1.5.1?

Any one want to share their real world wifi throughput on L-WR1043ND Gargoyle?

[DoesItMatter]

Any performance improvement in 1.4.4 or 1.5.1?

Any one want to share their real world wifi throughput on L-WR1043ND Gargoyle?

There were driver updates in 1.4.4 and 1.5.1 so yes, you should
upgrade to one of those and do your own testing as well.

1.4.4 is the stable branch, and unless you want to try out TOR,
stick with the 1.4.x branch for stability purposes.

[jaykumar2001]

I was having stability issues with 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, frequent wifi drops and router rebooted on its own. No logs in syslog or logread (kept a ssh session open with logread -f) therefore upgraded to 1.5.2 (TL-WR1043ND)

My Dell laptop has "DW1520 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card" and the max connection speed I get (Task Manager --> Networking) is 130mbps. No way I can increase it to 300mbps.

Here is my wireless config

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config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
        option 'type' 'mac80211'
        option 'macaddr' 'b0:48:xx:xx:xx:xx'
        option 'hwmode' '11ng'
        list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
        list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
        option 'noscan' '1'
        option 'bursting' '1'
        option 'compression' '1'
        option 'channel' '11'
        option 'htmode' 'HT40-'
        option 'distance' '40'

config 'wifi-iface' 'apcfg'
        option 'device' 'radio0'
        option 'mode' 'ap'
        option 'network' 'lan'
        option 'ssid' 'xxxxxxxx'
        option 'encryption' 'psk'
        option 'key' 'xxxxxxx'

Any one using same combination of hardware and getting better wifi speed/throughput?

[ispyisail]

How about trying 1.5.2 with SWAP

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/dok ... =swap_file

I was having stability issues with 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, frequent wifi drops and router rebooted on its own. No logs in syslog or logread (kept a ssh session open with logread -f) therefore upgraded to 1.5.2 (TL-WR1043ND)

My Dell laptop has "DW1520 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card" and the max connection speed I get (Task Manager --> Networking) is 130mbps. No way I can increase it to 300mbps.

Here is my wireless config

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config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
        option 'type' 'mac80211'
        option 'macaddr' 'b0:48:xx:xx:xx:xx'
        option 'hwmode' '11ng'
        list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
        list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
        option 'noscan' '1'
        option 'bursting' '1'
        option 'compression' '1'
        option 'channel' '11'
        option 'htmode' 'HT40-'
        option 'distance' '40'

config 'wifi-iface' 'apcfg'
        option 'device' 'radio0'
        option 'mode' 'ap'
        option 'network' 'lan'
        option 'ssid' 'xxxxxxxx'
        option 'encryption' 'psk'
        option 'key' 'xxxxxxx'

Any one using same combination of hardware and getting better wifi speed/throughput?

[hnl_dk]

...
My Dell laptop has "DW1520 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card" and the max connection speed I get (Task Manager --> Networking) is 130mbps. No way I can increase it to 300mbps.
...

Try changing the channel to a channel that is not used in your neighborhood.

If you have an Android phone, are you able to check it easily with this app... https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... yzer&hl=da

[jaykumar2001]

Yup, I am on the least noisy channel. Using Dell DW WLAN card utility to find out the wifi signal in the neighborhood.

Here is the output

[DoesItMatter]

300mbps speed is theoretical maximum you can attain.

In reality, you will never hit that speed.

Also, there is another set of issues working against you.

The driver manufacturers (Realtek, Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, etc)
DO NOT have a set standard of reporting speeds.

One manufacturer will report the theoretical max speed of connection.
Another manufacturer will report the ACTUAL speed of the connection.

You can never go by the reported connection speed.

Your best test for what you are actually getting is to do a standard
file transfer test from a LAN wired PC to a wireless connected PC.

Or you can also do it through some NAS connected device.

Don't test actual speed from a wireless to a wireless because you
lose some of the speed due to processing overhead,
error correction, etc.

And best test is a 500MB to 1GB file size.
That will give true transfer performance testing.