Any applications or the like to check router performance? Got a new router and put dd-wrt on it and was hoping to see if I could tweak for the optimal level of performance.

10/2/2010 11:58:13 PM

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"see if I could tweak for the optimal level of performance"

dd-wrt has a thread for almost every router they support. If it's not in there you probably shouldn't be bothering.

[Edited on October 3, 2010 at 1:57 AM. Reason : try http://www.ixchariot.com/products/datasheets/qcheck.html]

10/3/2010 1:53:50 AM

how are you defining router performance anyway?

10/3/2010 3:10:32 PM

I think it's measured in interwebs per second.

10/3/2010 4:44:48 PM

i doubt the routing will matter at such low speeds, I bet he'd like to test the throughput and burst speeds of the internal switch and wireless access point

10/3/2010 6:34:40 PM

that might make a little more sense, although putting dd-wrt on it shouldn't change LAN performance, as Layer 2 switching is going to be handled by an ASIC or FPGA, and not by the CPU.

but i guess L2 switching + some feature built into dd-wrt could be interesting to measure, in which case I would suggest iperf.

10/3/2010 8:03:04 PM

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"it's measured in interwebs per second."

I know I certainly don't have enough...

10/3/2010 11:49:42 PM

I think all you need to do is to put the router inside a chronograph and that will tell you how fast it's going

10/4/2010 10:13:13 AM

iPerf or jPerf. Same program, only jPerf has a Java GUI to use.

10/4/2010 11:27:28 AM

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"how are you defining router performance anyway?"

How fast it can divert porn packets to your computer.

10/4/2010 12:44:12 PM