back to the future... The La Fonera 2100 bandwidth issues

[morgan]

Hello Folks

Long time no post, but recently I had the need to resurrect my old Fonera into a useful machine to borrow my next-door-neighbours internet. However, I've found that the bandwidth through the Fonera is very limited. I don't seem to get more than about 5 Mbps download - which is getting on for a 20th of the download speed available - over 80 Mbps.

I'm running the Fonera model FON2100A/B/C with Gargoyle v1.4.7. Any comments on why this might be and how I might speed things up would be really appreciated.

Here's some stats generated from:
https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/

Via fonera 2100/ gargoyle v 1.4.7 (Internet-router -> wireless-Fonera -> wired-PC)
Response time (latency)
85 ms
Download speed
6.3 Mbps
Upload speed
4.6 Mbps

Not via fonera 2100/ gargoyle v 1.4.7 (Internet-router -> wireless-PC)
Response time (latency)
72 ms
Download speed
88.1 Mbps
Upload speed
18.2 Mbps

I don't pay much attention to the latency figures as ping google seems to show only a marginal difference:
$ ping google.co.uk
PING google.co.uk (216.58.213.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lhr25s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=14.8 ms
64 bytes from lhr25s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=14.8 ms
64 bytes from lhr25s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.67): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=15.2 ms
64 bytes from lhr25s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.67): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=14.3 ms
^C
--- google.co.uk ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.376/14.838/15.287/0.334 ms
$ ping google.co.uk
PING google.co.uk (172.217.23.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lhr35s01-in-f3.1e100.net (172.217.23.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=12.4 ms
64 bytes from lhr35s01-in-f3.1e100.net (172.217.23.3): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=13.0 ms
64 bytes from lhr35s01-in-f3.1e100.net (172.217.23.3): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=13.3 ms
64 bytes from lhr35s01-in-f3.1e100.net (172.217.23.3): icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=13.0 ms
^C
--- google.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 4 received, 20% packet loss, time 4055ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.421/12.975/13.392/0.350 ms
$


Many thanks
Morgan.

[Lantis]

CPU1: Atheros AR2315A (183 MHz)

Bandwidth is a product of CPU speed. I'd say being an old device, it is struggling to keep up.

[morgan]

Thanks Lantis,

I wondered about that, but then, when it came out it was (is) a b/g device so must be capable of 50 Mbps. Now it's showing a tenth of that at 5 Mbps...?

Thx

[Lantis]

On stock firmware.

When you start adding overheads like bandwidth monitoring/accounting and traffic shaping, it starts to degrade fast.

To put it in perspective, we are seeing most 500MHz routers top out at 60mbps.

if disabling bandwidth monitoring (/etc/init.d/bwmon_gargoyle stop) increases your speed, then that's the issue.

[morgan]

I wondered about that too
I'll start disabling some services...
Is there a howto for that somewhere - I didin't see anything immediately here:
https://www.gargoyle-router.com//wiki/doku.php
?

Thanks
M

[morgan]

stopped both:
/etc/init.d/bwmon_gargoyle stop
/etc/init.d/qos_gargoyle stop

And disabled
Doubled d/l speed
Any other candidates for the chop given I'm using this only as an internal 'bridge'?

Thx

[Lantis]

That's pretty much the bulk of it.
Web Usage (URL) monitoring as well.
I believe that's "webmon"