TomatoUSB

I am looking to improve my e3000 wireless transfer speed and also determine how to properly measure the transfer rate. My e3000 currently has Tomato USB 1.28.9006 MIPSR2_RAF K26 USB VPN-NOCAT running on it. I am also using an e1000 (running ddwrt) on the other side of the house to provide a stronger Wifi signal. The routers are bridged together via wifi. The routers have their own SSIDs but the e3000 is the primary device and handles all DHCP and modem interfacing.

I would like to be able to stream HD video from my USB HD drive-connected to the e3000 via USB. However, my current transfer speeds seem to make this impossible. Connecting via my Transformer Prime, I am not able to stream video without waiting a while to start the feed and then pausing every couple minutes-I assume to buffer. My prime often reports speeds as slow as 5Mbps and sometimes as high as 65Mbps second; however, I am not sure how reliable those measurements are and I that is the reason for the second part of my question—how do I properly measure my transfer speed.

I am hoping some people could tell me how to maximize my transfer speed (mainly for the 2.4ghz spectrum—i don't have many 5ghz devices). I believe all of my devices are N-rated; however, it would be nice allow G for the time being and at least be able to max out G speeds.

Any help would be appreciated.

I think it is very possibly that your Transformer Prime is the problem. There have been many reports of weak wifi with this tablet, and because of poor quality control, some units perform worse than others. I just sent my Transformer Prime back to Amazon a few days ago after playing with it for about three weeks. I too struggled to get HD videos to stream from my home server, but through an e4200. I played with transmit power and wifi channel and bandwidth settings with no luck. Ultimately I found that other wifi devices I had access to, including a iPad 1 3G, were able to sustain much higher transfer rates than the Prime. This, in addition to other hardware defects and design flaws, caused me to give up on the tablet completely.

Edit: Just to provide some data, in my bedroom about 40 feet from the router through two walls, the Transformer Prime could only get 2.5-3 Mbps down from speedtest.net. The iPad and my mid 2000's Thinkpad could fully saturate my 10 Mbps cable modem.