TomatoUSB

Greetings.

I'm new to Tomato. I have been using this for nearly three weeks. My primary network equipment had to be replaced. Now I'm using the Asus RT-N16, with Tomatousb. I really like Tomato even though I'm a little confused with the placement of menus. I have a couple of simple questions I hope someone could take a moment to answer. I am experiencing a low transfer rate over LAN. Prior to switching to the Asus-Tomato, I could accomplish a average of 50 MBps using FTP over lan to any machine. Now after switching over to the Asus using Tomato my speeds seem to have dropped to a 8-11 MBps average. Any suggestions please?

Also, previous equipment had the ability to give me a lot more sophisticated logging. I would like to see packet information and drops, incoming and outgoing IP-Addresses, and web traffic. What are my options to obtain a more advanced logging system? Perhaps I've over looked everything by mistake. If I have. I apologize.

Thanks.

Sounds like you have replaced a serious piece of kit with a toy? I do remember many years ago an old PC with lots of ram and multiple gigabit Network cards could route at Gigabit line speeds… and you don't need insecure wireless do you? RT-N16 not in same league, but does only need 12V 1.25A psu and wireless N (but only 2.4GHz band).

Re LAN transfers, do you mean wired LAN to WIRED LAN? - In that case packets should bounce off the router switch and shouldn't touch the Linux OS. If you are dropping from 50 MegaBytes per second to 10 MegaBytes per second, then that suggests something limiting to 100Mbit per second. I do know the RT-N16 has Gigabit wired ports which correctly connect at 1000Mbit per second, but I have never tests actual throughput.

If you have divided the LAN ports into multiple VLANS or wired LAN to WAN,or are using Wireless to Wired, then the firmware OS could well be a bottleneck. Asus original firmware has a Broadcom binary providing fastnat or CTF "Cut through forwarding", which greatly improves WAN to LAN transfers in nat router mode, but because it basically bypasses the Linux kernel it is incompatible with filtering, accounting and QOS, so use seems to be restricted to magazine reviews with benchmarks!

Thank you so much for your reply. I'm speaking strictly of wired LAN only. I do have the wireless transmitter enabled, but I have the power set to about eight. I also enabled a schedule for wireless so its only enabled for a couple hours a day. Wireless is no priority for me at all. I have also read that wireless is a weak point for the N16. I agree with you 1.25A which many people have written about. I could easily increase it's power to 2.5A if needed, from what I can see anything above 3 - 3.5 could possible cause some damage for long term use. According to the specs, The N16 is 10/100/1000 for WAN and LAN. However when I attempt to transfer files through the network from one computer to the other (testing many different methods) so far I can not produce speeds over 8-11 Mbps. While starting a transfer it slowly raises to around 10/11 mb. It can maintain that speed, but not go above 10 Mbps. I also agree with you about the original Asus Firmware. I only looked at the stock firmware for a moment. I was very excited to use tomato. But I found the stock firmware to be a little cartoon-ish. I'm not using any QOS with tomato right now.

The WAN (Internet) speeds are acceptable, but somewhere there is a semi dramatic loss in speed. I'll continue testing. I'm sure it's not my feed line. I'm using very well insulated high grade copper cat6. If you can think of any other settings please let me know.

Thanks!