Wireless router suggestions

I've just received the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH today.
I ordered it on the 7th.

Well done Expansys!
 
I also got mine today and I ordered on the 3rd of February.

Can't wait to test it tonight with Gatecrasher's traffic splitting script & 1.5TB USB3 (with USB2 backwards compatibility ofc) external drive :D
 
Both of you should come back and post. Want to know myself how it performs...
 
I am looking at the Linksys WAG320 and the WRT for the router-only

if any1 here is using/has used these, pls tell me how they are.

want to upgrade my network to gigabit and this combo, besides a netgear option, seems to be a good way to go.
 
I am really AMAZED by the firmware on the Buffalo (DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19/10) std)! It has PPPoE Relaying!!! So now I can dial PPPoE connections from my PC and from the router!

It took me quite a while to get Gatecrasher's traffic splitter script going on it though, due to the NIC having a different name (eth1 or $(nvram get wan_iface), instead of vlan1), and stupid notepad's word wrapping that screwed up the script.

With the Linksys WRT54GL, I had about 1MB memory free and I disabled all the critical services. Here is the 'top' output on the Buffalo:
Code: 
Mem: 22740K used, 38820K free, 0K shrd, 2552K buff, 7064K cached
CPU:  1.3% usr  0.5% sys  0.0% nic 97.8% idle  0.0% io  0.0% irq  0.1% sirq

I haven't played much with the 802.11n yet, but so far the router is reporting sync speed of 130Mbps and I'm copying at about 8MB/s - compared to the 2.5MB/s I previously got.

Now I still have to get my portable 1.5TB USB 2.0 drive going.

So far I'm really impressed with it ;)
 
I've now finally got the 1.5TB USB 2.0 external working with the router as Samba shares :D

There are a few issues though:
1) I don't get anything more than 12MB/s read/write, due to Samba maxing out the 400MHz CPU
2) I haven't gotten NTFS (ntfs-3g) support working yet, so I've formatted my data partition as Ext3 instead
3) You need to import a registry setting (or adjust secpol.msc) in Vista/Win7 to get the Samba shares working if you've configured it with a password

After more extensive use of the wireless, I can say that I don't get 8MB/s transfer speeds all of the time. That was only when I uploaded from my laptop (using 802.11n) to my desktop (using 1Gbps LAN).
The connection speed of my laptop, shown on the web GUI, fluctuates a lot between 130Mbps and 54Mbps - especially if my brother and neighbour connects to the AP.

I still want to try out squid, nzbget and a few other Optware packages on it though, but currently the free memory sits at 1MB when I'm copying stuff with Samba to the USB drive! Yup: Samba is taking up like 38MB of RAM!
It also seems like they've disabled the Linux swap capability on the firmware, so I can't use my external for swap either :(
 
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The ProFTPd is definitely more efficient, however I only get about 8MB/s read/write per section. I really find it quite silly that it's limited to 8MB/s, since the CPU usage is then less than 50%, and Windows Explorer cannot use multiple connections for the same file.

I get about 16MB/s read/write with 2 sections (concurrent connections), but then the CPU usage is at 84% (42% x2).
 
Pada said:
The ProFTPd is definitely more efficient, however I only get about 8MB/s read/write per section.
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Weird.

Pada said:
I really find it quite silly that it's limited to 8MB/s, since the CPU usage is then less than 50%, and Windows Explorer cannot use multiple connections for the same file.

I get about 16MB/s read/write with 2 sections (concurrent connections), but then the CPU usage is at 84% (42% x2).
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So you get 8MB/s per connection for both CIFS and FTP?

Wonder if that issue exists in OpenWRT also or if it is only a DD-WRT problem...

Maybe try emailing the company or asking on a forum and ask there?
 
Gnome: No. I got like 12MB/s with Samba shares, when I still used an ext3 partition.

I've now installed newer & custom firmware for NTFS support: http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/...2/2011/02-17-11-r16214/buffalo_wzr-hp-g300nh/
NTFS reading + writing is now working 100%, but the speed is terrible. I get like 4MB/s max, due to proftpd using like 20% CPU and ntfs-3g the other 80%.

The other issue that I have with that firmware is that it doesn't have EXT2/3 support any more.

So the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH is a pretty bad option as a NAS, unless you don't mind a lowish speed.

I guess that I would just get an Intel Atom dual core rig for NAS + Squid.

Update: I now got like 9.6MB/s read speed, using 2 sections. With 1 section, the speed gradually climbed to like 8.6MB/s. With 3+ sections it peaks at like 10.2MB/s.
So I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought.
 
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