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Topic: Routing performance of wl500g Premium

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I tried two software images for wl500gP: openwrt kamikaze and Olegs's firmware. Kamikaze can route about 40-44 megabits, Oleg's firmware can do 80-88 megabits. I tried to turn off every not needed to run features in the openwrt (firewall, imq etc ...) but I only got a 48 mefabits of routing through my wl500gP :-(

I asked question about this difference on Russian forum at http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=8812.
Oleg said that reason (may be) in the driver b44. Oleg uses original driver + his patches from et.o wich is already under GPL.

So this is a question:

How to make wl500gP to route 80-88 megabits under openwrt ?
Is there any patch for et.o for 2.6 kernel for kamokaze ?

P.S. Tested with iperf. One, bidirectional and 10-20 flows give the same results.
I want use kamikaze becouse fresh soft, fine configuration and castomisation for my needs.

I'm also interested in this subject. I'll try to make the same tests in the next few days and post the results.

kenjiru wrote:

I'm also interested in this subject. I'll try to make the same tests in the next few days and post the results.

Have You done the tests ? :-).
I'm interesting in You results.

I've run the tests and indeed kamikaze's routing speed it's quite low. Here are the results.

Kamikaze:

akira ~ # iperf -c 10.0.0.3
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.0.0.3, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 10.10.13.2 port 1098 connected with 10.0.0.3 port 5001
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  47.3 MBytes  39.7 Mbits/sec

WhiteRussian 1.0

akira ~ # iperf -c 10.0.0.3
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.0.0.3, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 10.10.13.2 port 1899 connected with 10.0.0.3 port 5001
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  54.9 MBytes  46.1 Mbits/sec

I've used 2 ASUS WL-500gP routers, one with Kamikaze and the other one with WhiteRussian.

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