I can run some tests but will be on my router, not anything like yours if it matters see my sig.
Also it will be the very latest public build, perhaps even newer builds not yet public or that arent or will be public.
Perhaps now you feel like you could share YOUR experience and details while you wait?
Thank you!
I am looking at buying a used WRT 1200AC specifically for this. My current setup is a USB NTFS HDD attached to R7000 (Broadcom ARM), over 5Ghz wireless, I'm getting 20-24 MB/S read and around 7 MB/s write (using FTP). On SMB it is much worse.
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 16:18 Post subject: Bottlenecks
Right, the r7000 is comparable to mine, hardware wise its identical.
It may matter here if you use USB3/2 router side (USB already has limits in transfer speeds (also matters if its HDD/SSD in the USB caddy), this is one bottleneck.
If you're using the 5GHz radio and you use the USB3 this will likely be worse, I'm not sure if the USB3 port is on same PCI bus or not on these routers R7000/RT-AC68U, if it does this will slow down things.
It also matters source HDD/SSD for upload/download from/to the device you running tests from these are also bottlenecks.
And dont forget that it matters your WiFi device capability and capabilities and what your WIFI setup is, because depending on your wifi settings you client may or may be running at peak speeds.
So you should actually share more details about your setup based on details above as it all matters.
So anyway, your intended new router if its not as beefy as the R7000 expect worse results.
Another bottleneck is device RAM/CPU.
In short, asking the router and especially shitty CPUs and Low RAM devices to act as Samba servers and whatever else is nonsense as far as I'm concerned, especially when these devices already need a certain amount of resources for its basic duties.
Over here I use dedicated servers that only job is to serve files via Samba/NFS/SFTP the router is basically just that, a router.
Same for the Media Center (KODI) its also a dedicated device, and thats where you dont want stuttering and such nonsense, cause the router ksmbd serves files in parts and spawns several processes that will bog down the router CPU and thus slower transfers because there not enough CPU time for everything
I have a WRT32x although it also uses a marvell SOC running at 1.8ghz. I think your WRT1200ac may likely be fine still.
HDD I have attached is a WD-Red-8TB drive inside a HDD Docking station conected to the routers usb 3.0 port.
I can confirm that with both NTFS and EXT4, you can get speeds of up to around 500mbps to 1000mbps. Depending on what you are transferring.
If its big chonky files then you should see throughput nearing next to 1000mbps. If not, around 500mbps. maybe even less if its all smaller files.
Also, EXT4 is better in my opinion. Every time my dd-wrt did not properly shut down, I would have to plug the drive into a windows computer just to run check disk.