Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 1:01 Post subject: Crazy network setup, SLOW internet. TrendNet TEW-824DRU
I know I need to update my DD-WRT, but let's lay it out.
My wired network has been through some changes lately. I know my performance with the old Xfinity cable wasn't great even going from laptop cat-6 to modem so I thought going to Fiber would fix that.
My setup is this...
ALL cabing is either Fiber or cat-6.
#1. Frontier ONT gig fiber service.
#2. Eero Pro6 (x2) running OEM firmware. Speed tests there are 959mbps.
#3. The first Eero is connected to a TrendNet TEG-S50G 5 port gig switch. This branches to work laptops and then to the home network
Home network is...
#1. DD-WRT routers, TrendNet TEW-824DRU, and TrendNet TEW-812DRU. THe secondary / bridged router is offline presently. Both flashed with the hardware specific version of Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r46733 std (05/21/21)
#2. All of my wired connections are through a TrendNet TEG-S24DG
Cabled gig connections talke to each other at roughly 1 gps, wifi on the Eero is pulling 500 some odd up and down. Pretty cool for a smart p0hone for sure...
Speed test on the wired gigabit connections on the TrendNet are. 127 mbps down, 500 mbps up.
On WIFi, it is WAY worse. 13.0 down, 42 up.
Why the massive slowdown, and why is it way worse on download?
I do have local DNS running on the 824, but I wouldn't think that should clobber it like this...
Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 6:31 Post subject: Re: Crazy network setup, SLOW internet. TrendNet TEW-824DRU
dbhosttexas wrote:
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Speed test on the wired gigabit connections on the TrendNet are. 127 mbps down, 500 mbps up.
On WIFi, it is WAY worse. 13.0 down, 42 up.
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LAN download speed seems bad to me, even for a single core 750Mhz CPU router.
Correction:
The TEW-812DRU v2.x has dual core, the v1.x has single core broadcom cpu to internet research, both gigabit LAN and faster wlan (ac,n)
For gig fiber you need dual core 1Ghz+, on single core the 500 mbs is nearly max you get out of the box.
You should post your 2.4G and 5G wifi settings
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