[nikiangel]

Hello,
maybe I'm doing something wrong and need help here but my findings so far are below.
WRT32X as AP, it needs to give wi-fi access to my local network (some call it dumb ap)

I measured the speed using iperf 2.05 https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php#windows with simple settings.
The iperf server is using a gigabit cable connection and the start command is iperf -s, the iperf client is connecting to the WRT32X device on the 5GHz network and using the iperf command iperf -c SERVER_IP

WRT32X stock firmware - 175Mbit/sec
WRT32X dd-wrt ver. 40134 - 66Mbit/sec
WRT32X openwrt ver. 18.06.4 - 129Mbit/sec

Can someone test this and share his results? Iperf3 gives different numbers btw, but that's another discussion.

[nikiangel]

I continued testing with openwrt latest stable and wrt32x stock firmware, as they gave the 2 best results in the 1st test.
Used iperf3 this time, and also just big file transfer in windows. Results are below, but it seems either the proprietary drivers or something else in the linksys firmware makes big difference regarding speed.
It looks like the throttling in the openwrt and dd-wrt firmware is intentional as it happens so constantly. BTW, the speed drop that we see below in openwrt every 5 seconds or so were exactly the same in dd-wrt.
Any comment by someone more familiar with this will be appreciated.



The iperf results:
STOCK FIRMWARE

PS D:\software\iperf> .\iperf3.exe -c 192.168.10.67 -t20
Connecting to host 192.168.10.67, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.10.91 port 65475 connected to 192.168.10.67 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 39.0 MBytes 327 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 39.4 MBytes 330 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 40.9 MBytes 343 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 39.6 MBytes 332 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 39.2 MBytes 329 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 41.2 MBytes 346 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 40.6 MBytes 341 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 40.4 MBytes 339 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 40.5 MBytes 340 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 39.9 MBytes 334 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 10.00-11.00 sec 40.0 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 11.00-12.00 sec 39.1 MBytes 328 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 12.00-13.00 sec 38.2 MBytes 321 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 13.00-14.00 sec 39.9 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 14.00-15.00 sec 39.2 MBytes 329 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 15.00-16.00 sec 39.0 MBytes 327 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 16.00-17.00 sec 37.5 MBytes 315 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 17.00-18.00 sec 38.1 MBytes 320 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 18.00-19.00 sec 38.9 MBytes 326 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 19.00-20.00 sec 39.4 MBytes 330 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 790 MBytes 331 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 790 MBytes 331 Mbits/sec receiver

OPENWRT FIRMWARE

PS D:\software\iperf> .\iperf3.exe -c 192.168.10.67 -t20
Connecting to host 192.168.10.67, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.10.91 port 51175 connected to 192.168.10.67 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 40.6 MBytes 341 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 39.4 MBytes 330 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 40.1 MBytes 336 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 40.6 MBytes 341 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 41.5 MBytes 348 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 30.2 MBytes 253 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 5.38 MBytes 45.2 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 5.25 MBytes 44.1 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 14.6 MBytes 123 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 42.4 MBytes 355 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 10.00-11.00 sec 41.5 MBytes 349 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 11.00-12.00 sec 41.5 MBytes 348 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 12.00-13.00 sec 42.2 MBytes 355 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 13.00-14.00 sec 41.8 MBytes 350 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 14.00-15.00 sec 5.50 MBytes 46.2 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 15.00-16.00 sec 5.38 MBytes 45.1 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 16.00-17.00 sec 5.12 MBytes 43.0 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 17.00-18.00 sec 39.2 MBytes 329 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 18.00-19.00 sec 42.5 MBytes 356 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 19.00-20.00 sec 42.6 MBytes 357 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 608 MBytes 255 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 607 MBytes 255 Mbits/sec receiver

File Transfer
Stock WRT32X firmware



Openwrt firmware

[Micma99]

running openwrt 18.06.4 on Linksys wrt32x I get full gigabit LAN speed ~115MBps from and to my centos server on my hardware raid6 array (24TB) formatted as ntfs and my windows desktop on a ssd drive with wired cat5E cables.

From this I could not direct you to a solution as I got this from first day setup.

Good luck!

edit: sorry, just reread your post and saw you were testing over wireless. I cannot test speeds over wifi as all is connected through wired cat5e