I replaced my trusty old WRT54GL a few months ago with a refurb CISCO E4200 router from the CISCO homestore as my main router downstairs in the media room. The WRT54Gl was flashed with DD-WRT and relegated to client bridge upstairs in my office for my media server and wired printer. It worked great for that but transfer rates were somewhat slow when moving large media directories back and forth from my laptop.
Enter 1st attempt to upgrade to 802.11N in my office. Purchased a Trendnet TEW 673GRU from Newegg on super sale and flashed with DD-WRT. Configured identically to the 54Gl I received a poorer signal quality in my office with a SNR of ~40.
Pinging back to the router downstairs with a packet size of ~1300-1400 showed packet loss of between 5-15% when the WRT54GL showed none.
I can'r reliably get on the internet with this router as the bridge etc. Upon first reboot, I can load one web page then everything else times out. I can reliably ping the router downstairs and map drives from my laptop to the media server but transfer rates never go over 1.5-1.86 MB/s which is pretty slow for 802.11N (I am assuming because it is dropping packets and transmitting. This is using the 2.4 ghz radio, I couldn't even get it to route seemingly over the 5ghz radio. (no pinging of downstairs router on 5ghz only despite it saying it was connected)
Put the WRT54GL back on and everything runs fine, no dropped packets, internet access upstairs, and SMB file transfers at around 900 kb/s/ Single strength isn't bad either.
Any suggestions on what is going on? Bad Trendnet Router, a config issue on the trendnet as a bridge?
Config
Downstairs:
E4200 with stock firmware broadcasting on 2.4 and 5 ghz same SSID
Upstairs
Trendnet TEW-673GRU with DDWRT configured as client bridge
- Dropped packets
- Unreliable internet access (seems to time out)
- Slow SMB file Transfers
- 2.4ghz connects with all of the above symptoms
-5ghz does not seem to work
WRT54Gl
- Works fine just slowly as client bridge with DD WRT
Enter 1st attempt to upgrade to 802.11N in my office. Purchased a Trendnet TEW 673GRU from Newegg on super sale and flashed with DD-WRT. Configured identically to the 54Gl I received a poorer signal quality in my office with a SNR of ~40.
Pinging back to the router downstairs with a packet size of ~1300-1400 showed packet loss of between 5-15% when the WRT54GL showed none.
I can'r reliably get on the internet with this router as the bridge etc. Upon first reboot, I can load one web page then everything else times out. I can reliably ping the router downstairs and map drives from my laptop to the media server but transfer rates never go over 1.5-1.86 MB/s which is pretty slow for 802.11N (I am assuming because it is dropping packets and transmitting. This is using the 2.4 ghz radio, I couldn't even get it to route seemingly over the 5ghz radio. (no pinging of downstairs router on 5ghz only despite it saying it was connected)
Put the WRT54GL back on and everything runs fine, no dropped packets, internet access upstairs, and SMB file transfers at around 900 kb/s/ Single strength isn't bad either.
Any suggestions on what is going on? Bad Trendnet Router, a config issue on the trendnet as a bridge?
Config
Downstairs:
E4200 with stock firmware broadcasting on 2.4 and 5 ghz same SSID
Upstairs
Trendnet TEW-673GRU with DDWRT configured as client bridge
- Dropped packets
- Unreliable internet access (seems to time out)
- Slow SMB file Transfers
- 2.4ghz connects with all of the above symptoms
-5ghz does not seem to work
WRT54Gl
- Works fine just slowly as client bridge with DD WRT
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