That is the normal LAN<>WAN speed for these little routers.
If you want near gig speed you need a better router like a Netgear R7800.
You can eke some more speed out of it by enabling CTF&FA (on setup page) with this enabled my R6400 v2 does about 750 Mb- 800 Mb/s YMMV
Note it is not compatible with PPPoE or Static DHCP and also not with Qos (it is a new feature we still have to learn a lot about it)
For using CTF&FA you have to use a recent build e.g. 46885 or better
Ok, Im using build 46885, tried CTF&FA, setting WAN to "Automatic DHCP" and "Static IP".
It makes almost no difference to me
A workmate has same ISP, same ISP router, and using a Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H (Atheros device AR7161, 680Mhz) with same DMZ setup, is getting almost full speed. What could it be happening? And he is using a 2020 dd-wrt version.
If you want gig speed WAN<>LAN and perform NAT you need a faster router, but like I said about 750 - 800 should possible with CTF&FA enabled (of course measured wired)
Well, just VPNd at his place (through his DD-WRT). Checked his conf and is a Static IP WAN, NAT.
Accessed his Raspberry Pi 4 and issued a 'speedtest' at the CLI
Code:
root@DietPi:~# speedtest
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Digimobil - Madrid (id = 17773)
ISP: DIGI SPAIN RESIDENTIAL
Latency: 6.17 ms (0.06 ms jitter)
Download: 913.28 Mbps (data used: 775.0 MB)
Upload: 895.84 Mbps (data used: 1.6 GB)
1 DD-WRT (192.168.99.1) 0.342 ms 0.192 ms 0.286 ms
2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.777 ms 0.686 ms 0.672 ms
3 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 2.616 ms 2.457 ms 2.332 ms
4 172.16.6.225 (172.16.6.225) 3.084 ms 3.099 ms 3.071 ms
5 10.220.97.111 (10.220.97.111) 2.385 ms 2.546 ms 2.506 ms
6 10.220.96.30 (10.220.96.30) 7.101 ms 7.695 ms 7.599 ms
7 91.232.81.211 (91.232.81.211) 7.480 ms 7.368 ms 7.273 ms
8 * * *
9 74.125.253.200 (74.125.253.200) 6.320 ms 6.266 ms 142.251.54.150 (142.251.54.150) 8.368 ms
10 142.251.51.143 (142.251.51.143) 6.696 ms 142.251.51.141 (142.251.51.141) 6.679 ms 74.125.242.179 (74.125.242.179) 6.864 ms
11 74.125.37.216 (74.125.37.216) 7.046 ms mad41s14-in-f3.1e100.net (142.250.200.131) 6.714 ms 74.125.37.216 (74.125.37.216) 7.316 ms
You can see there the DD-WRT Buffalo, 192.168.99.0 network and the ISP router LAN 192.168.1.0.
So, it is configured as a router, making NAT, and he is getting almost full speed.
No tricks, no special settings. And I think his router is "weaker" than mine, isnt it?
How can it be?
EDIT: activating CTF&FA and rebooting 3 times makes my router download speed slower (upload speed is like before) and uses much more cpu. Tomorrow I will try last version, and maybe I will try to get back to the same version than my mate just to check how it goes.
Also, can you tell us exactly why you are using dd-wrt?
Of course: using openvpn client for my old NAS, and for some computers when doing certain things, using ssh tunnel for accessing home for years (as a proxy from work, to access devices...), and setting up a wireguard server in the router recently. I'm using dd-wrt for years, and I get accustomed to set all the things in it. I like the fact it is unix so I can ssh and use command line to do and see how and if things are working.....
I did set up certain wireless confs in the past, and used QoS when the stock firmware in my routers does not allow it, etc.
I don't know if Netgear stock firmware can do all or part of these things. Anyway I prefer to do them in dd-wrt, even if I loose some speed. But not the half of it.
Now for this testing all these services are not set up. I only activated the ssh daemon to access router CLI.
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I downgraded to r45219 with reset, didn't change anything, reboot two times to let it relax and now I'm getting around 750-800 Mbs up and down. And cpu is not over 30% while speed testing.
So something is not working like it should in the latests releases. What do you think? Could I help to diagnose it?