Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12837 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:29 Post subject:
As a lot of people (including me) are using this build so there is probably something wrong in your settings.
The most important thing when coming from stock is to telnet into you router and do:
Code:
nvram erase && reboot
Setup manully do not restore from backup.
When setting up wireless settings always use a channel number do not use auto channel, choose your channel with Wifi analyser on your phone to see the best channel or use Status/Wireless/Site survey
Always use WPA2-PSK/AES for security.
Leave everything else at default.
Depending on the client used you should get a connection of 72 to 144 Mb/s, which efectively gives you 2/3 of that.
If that works you can set additonal channel width, when doing this it often reverts to auto channel, just toggle Upper/Lower save/apply and you can set the channel number.
@egc
Thanks for a very nice install guide for the Netgear R6400v2.
I will be trying it in a bit on my R6400v2 with board_id=U12H332T30_NETGEAR.
I found two discrepancies:
- I 'upgraded' my stock firmware before reading your guide an ended up with V1.0.3.66_10.0.50. I was able to enable telnet w/o any program just in the debug page.
- At 4 f in your guide you say to issue :cat /dev/mtd4 > /tmp/shares/S_Drive/mtd4_boarddata.bin
to backup partition 5 however my router sees the USB drive as USB_Storage thus i used:
cat /dev/mtd4 > /tmp/shares/USB_Storage/R6400Backups/mtd4_boarddata.bin
to save in the R6400Backups directory I made on the usb drive.
As a lot of people (including me) are using this build so there is probably something wrong in your settings.
The most important thing when coming from stock is to telnet into you router and do:
Code:
nvram erase && reboot
Setup manully do not restore from backup.
When setting up wireless settings always use a channel number do not use auto channel, choose your channel with Wifi analyser on your phone to see the best channel or use Status/Wireless/Site survey
Always use WPA2-PSK/AES for security.
Leave everything else at default.
Depending on the client used you should get a connection of 72 to 144 Mb/s, which efectively gives you 2/3 of that.
If that works you can set additonal channel width, when doing this it often reverts to auto channel, just toggle Upper/Lower save/apply and you can set the channel number.
With VHT 80 I get connnections of 866 Mb/s on 5 GHz
Wow! Nice speeds.
I got an R6400v2 today and flashed KONG's 38580 build.
Looks to be working great except one thing. And yes, I erased the nvram through telnet.
The WiFi speed.
I set the Channel Width to VHT80, yet, in Sys-Info I am shown a speed of 233 MBPS.
I tried setting the wireless channel to Auto and even tried manually setting the channels individually.
Sometimes it shows 1300 MBPS but then goes back to 233 or some lower values.
When I tried to copy two files from laptop to laptop using 5 GHz WiFi, I got a speed of 6 MB/s which is about 48 MBPS (even though Sys-Info was showing 233 MBPS). Both laptop were sitting next to the router.
Why is this happening? Am I missing something?
My issue with the R7000 was similar I believe.
Is there a way I can lock down the speed to 1300 MBPS at all times? I think the stock firmware locks it down as well.
Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12837 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:40 Post subject:
The speed shown is the possible maximum theoretical speed, if there is no traffic speed goes down, it is a kind of powersaving I guess.
If you have two laptops connected for throughput measurement then you effectively half the speed if they are both on wireless.
All those speeds are theoretical and very dependend on circumstances and on clients. There are not much clients with a 3 stream wireless setup.
Also some channel combinations work better than others so use different channel settings but do not use auto.
Just did a quick test using my phone which connects with 866Mb/s (it is an Samsung S7 with 2 streams) but actual measured throughput 330 Mb/s and that is just a limitation of my phone, with a connection speed of 866Mb/s you should be able with good hardware to get around 500 Mb/s, but that is one client from wireless to wired if you have two clients so from wireless to wireless you half that speed.
Complete newb here so please bare with me. I wanted to setup a VPN Client on the Netgear R6400v2, so decided to flash DD-WRT. I spent a good three hours yesterday evening going through this forum until I decided to go through with it. Went from stock to dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD_128K.bin, almost effortlessly following the guide provided by @egc(Does dd-wrt use tags?) Needless to say, I have a functioning flashed router with OpenVPN client setup through NordVPN.
Probably the most difficult part of this I believe was going through this whole thread and reading all the issues that may arise(and the cat fight that was going on). For example, the 5GHZ radio was running slower than the 2.4GHZ which usually is the other way around on my extremely max speeds of 30Mbps.
Another issue was enabling telnet on the router on stock. Couldn't get to the 192.168.1.1/debug.htm page but that was probably due to not clearing my web cache.
Oh and for recording purposes, I had a boardid=U12H332T20_NETGEAR.
Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12837 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 16:11 Post subject:
Welcome to the forum
Yes tags are used.
Newer stock firmware does not let you enable telnet, you have to use the workarounds with nte or you have to donwgrade the stock firmware (which is probably also not supported any more by Netgear).
Dunno about the year. I recently bought second hand off of someone. They told me it was brand new but I guess they were referring to the condition and not when they purchased it.
Anyways, Thanks so much for the guide. It worked liked a charm. The router is working just fine. Will be testing with higher speeds soon.
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:54 Post subject: Weird Behavior on 37015 build 6400v2
So today for some odd reason my router has started to not respond to the ip address thru a browser. I shut it off and power on and it works again but after some time the same thing happens. I also noticed the WIFI starts dropping out. Should i install a build newer tghen the 37015?