Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6410 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:11 Post subject:
PaulGo wrote:
For the past nine months I have been working with Comcast engineers and Netgear engineers to get IPv6 working on Comcast vCMTS systems. Netgear finally game me a test build to try on my other router, a Netgear RAX45, and they finally determined what the problem was and fixed the problem.
I would rather stay away from any stock netgear firmware...
in general i stay away of any routers stock firmwares...
so, far...there are so many alternatives...for routers OS
I also rather stick to IPv4 as long as it's possible.... for a personal reasons...
NAT is not always that bad..but yep it ads its cons...over ipv6..
as well compare to the old architecture of ipv4, ipv6 is far away from perfect...
linux is not that hard to learn ash, bash..shell) ... but nowadays since Windows 7 is gone linux OS will become a must...
so, better start with linux now than never...so many linux alternatives to the crap Win 10/Win 11...
Since Win 10 came out i started to hate Win OS environment where you seal a hole or stop a bad services and block telemetry's and on the next update its back again...bollocks telemetry's, bloatware and tons of stupid running unnecessary services that open a holes...everywhere and sluggish software that makes your PC/laptop looks/feels always old and a need of new Hardware Updates...
To compare i ve bunch of old dual core laptops where Win 10 is no go, but linux fly's with speed of light...
p.s. edited on a PC _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55179 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55303 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55363 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
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Joined: 31 Jul 2021 Posts: 2146 Location: All over YOUR webs
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:39 Post subject:
I have no issues with my windows 10, I neutered it, there is no telemetry period. It does only what I want it to updates or not. But I will not even goto Win 11, maybe Windows 12 will be a good version, but I dont care generally, This is what virtualization is for, I have 2 or 3 Different OS's running at same time, 1 on Host, and two different ones on VM's
ANd I mistakenly tripped over the exact topic of IPv6 + CTF here
Since you linked to my post about slow IPv6 with my R7000, FWIW, I recently picked up a R7800 eBay and installed "05/31/2022 - r49028," despite your warning about the potential for new bugs.
I am still getting used to the Qualcomm/Atheros options. However, I do have the Shortcut Forwarding Engine enabled, and IPv4 and IPv6 produce similar benchmark scores of around 700/24 Mbps with my Xfinity 600/20 service. After testing, I turned off IPv6 because I do not think I have any need for it.
In general, I do not see a huge difference between the R7000 and the R7800. WiFi is a bit faster, but not enough to justify the cost of the R7800. However, if IPv6 performance is important, the R7800 looks like a good option.
Hardware perspective, R7800 is doing a lot in software that could be accelerated or offloaded to NSS cores.
Certainly do not recommend r48996 or r49028 (build was removed), builds before and after these are fine.
My R7800 is now running r49081.
The link you provided regarding the NSS cores is interesting. The post is 4+ years old and has 2588 replies, but the last reply was only 28 days ago. Do you think that DD-WRT will ever get acceleration or offloading to the NSS cores? Perhaps the faster CPU of the R7800 vs the R7000 makes this less important.
Joined: 31 Jul 2021 Posts: 2146 Location: All over YOUR webs
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 17:37 Post subject:
Security lol, enhanced security... Sure the thing is better designed than IPv4 but lets not get carried away and believe all the snake oil being peddled on the web, OK?
Find me anything tech, software/hardware and technologies where the web runs on any layer that haven't been compromised, and Ill give you a gold nugget.
Joined: 01 Dec 2021 Posts: 289 Location: Maryland, United States
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 16:13 Post subject:
On the R7000P which I just recently acquired With IPv6 enabled, I found that on IPv6 speed test sites using SFE and using CTF for Flow Acceleration gave me the best results. The Flow Acceleration CTF setting substantially increased the WI-FI speed both for IPv4 and IPv6.
Joined: 31 Jul 2021 Posts: 2146 Location: All over YOUR webs
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 16:52 Post subject:
IPv6 is not NAT'ed and CTF only accelerates NAT and thats not just saying it for the sake of the sky color being pink.
CTF like it or not is only WAN <-> LAN nothing else.
What you notice is a side effect of WLAN being bridged by default to the LAN is why you notice this on WiFi as a side effect of that... CTF in this case also increases bridging performance, which may explain the non standard behavior of CTF on a better performance router.
Joined: 01 Dec 2021 Posts: 289 Location: Maryland, United States
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2022 2:17 Post subject:
On my semi-retired R6300v1 (overclocked to 662mhz) using SFE connected to Comcast high speed internet I can get a download speed of 415 Mbps. With CTF the download speed increases to slight;y over 700 Mbps. My top download Wi-Fi speed is slightly less than 300Mbps. With the old stock Netgear firmware, I can get about 930 Mbps wired. This only applies to IPv4. Not bad for a single core router.