I'm running White Russian 0.9 on an Asus WL-500gP hooked up to a cable modem. When I run the www.speakeasy.com speed test my speeds are 18,800kbps down and 427kbps up on a computer connected by ethernet cable to the router.

When I swap in a WRT-54G running DD-WRT I get about the same download but the upload speed jumps to 2681kbps.

Any clue what might be causing White Russian to upload 6 times slower than DD-WRT? Both routers are configured the same way with basic firewall settings. I would much prefer to stick with White Russian but if I can't fix this I'm going to have to revert to DD-WRT.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rob

Do you test WR0.9 on your WRT54G, because maybe the chipset deal a place in the problem ?

To test the firmare you have to test with the same hardware.

Test Asus with DdWRT or/and OpenWRT with WRT54G to compare.

$@m,

You're right. I should have mentioned that I did get the higher upload speeds with the Asus WL-500gP running DD-wrt. The low upload speeds only occur when running White Russian 0.9.

Rob

Strange...

SO the firmare otpimisation is the probleme... sorry, I can't help you

you could also try http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=10519

Had the same problem, with my WL-500gp. Download-Speed was OK, but Upload was limited to about 50kb/s. 'cause I use the Router to uplink to a 100Mbit-LAN, with MAC-Security, that really bothered me.

I'm new to OpenWRT and not that good with Linux, but I figured out, that QoS is somehow messing the WAN-connection, even if deactivated, on this router. When I activated it an inserted connection speeds, Upload increased to about half an MB/s.
Now I deinstalled all packages, that had anything to do with QoS and restarted the router.

Works fine now. Upload to WAN is arround 5 to 6MB/s, which seems to be capped by the CPU.

Regards,
Daniel

so you can overclock your cpu and test, maybe ddwrt made this feature ?

I had DD-WRT installed once. Liked it, but it's no practicable for me, 'cause the WLAN died, after some time, if no client was connected. Seems to be a bug with the WLAN-Driver used in DD-WRT and the WL-500gp.

As I recall overlocking is quite easy. There's only one nvram-variable to change, although you've got to keep an eye on proper cooling.

You may get a MB/s more up- and downlink, by overlocking. Personally I think it's to risky. The roughly 6 Megabyte/s bandwith, I'll get out of the router, are enough for me. If you've read the thread, you should have seen, that my problem was a really slow Upload-Speed to WAN.

Or do I misunderstand, what you're asking?

Regards,
Daniel

(Last edited by TheDaniel on 28 May 2007, 13:39)

Daniel,

Thanks for the info on the QoS issue. I did go back to DD-WRT v23 SP3 Asus and I'm back to full upload speed. I'll probably just wait for Kamakazi before I flash again. Thanks again.

Rob

Hi Daniel,

I have the same issue. Could you tell me if you installed any additional packages to activate the QoS and then which ones you uninstalled to fix the issue?

Thanks,

Nick.

Hi NRForbes.

I didn't install any additional packages. In the version of x-Wrt, I used, nq's scripts were already integrated.
I deinstalled "iptables-mod-imq" and "qos-scripts".

Regards,
Daniel