[Maylyn's Review] ASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight

[CheongKing]

Upgraded my N66U to the latest ROM v3.0.0.4.260
Change my Tx Power adjustment to 200mW
Configure it as an AP..

I try speedtest on my S3 wireless.. On 2.4band I getting 30Mbps
When I connect to 5band, I get 50Mbps

My cable is 50Mbps connection.. So is that normal?

Is there any other setting that can tweak to make it better?

Also I dont seems to be able to share printing..

Trying to connect my HP1200 with workstation (W8Pro) but was unsuccessful..

So anyone can help??

 

[Gribber]

Upgraded my N66U to the latest ROM v3.0.0.4.260
Change my Tx Power adjustment to 200mW
Configure it as an AP..

I try speedtest on my S3 wireless.. On 2.4band I getting 30Mbps
When I connect to 5band, I get 50Mbps

My cable is 50Mbps connection.. So is that normal?

Is there any other setting that can tweak to make it better?

Also I dont seems to be able to share printing..

Trying to connect my HP1200 with workstation (W8Pro) but was unsuccessful..

So anyone can help??

1. do you really need 200mW? Sometimes having too high might backfire as well.

2. what is the range between router and device?

3. your 5GHz band is getting the right speed for your plan but your 2.4GHz isnt. Is your environment flooded with 2.4GHz network? If so, select something that is less congested and try it again.

4. able to use a proper computer to test instead of using s3 to test it? S3 wireless adapter is ONLY a single antenna!

almost all mobile devices is using a single antenna adapter - same goes for apple!

 

[psxstar]

Is there a proper way to check what channels are the other wireless ssid using so I can set mine to a different channel?

 

[Gribber]

Is there a proper way to check what channels are the other wireless ssid using so I can set mine to a different channel?

as mentioned above.

 

[vkvkvvk]

Does increasing Tx really help? Will it increase temperature alot?
I'm still having wirless range issues around my house.

I have mine placed in front of my aircon which coincidentally is the only place I have space in my room.

 

[maylyn]

Upgraded my N66U to the latest ROM v3.0.0.4.260
Change my Tx Power adjustment to 200mW
Configure it as an AP..

I try speedtest on my S3 wireless.. On 2.4band I getting 30Mbps
When I connect to 5band, I get 50Mbps

My cable is 50Mbps connection.. So is that normal?

Is there any other setting that can tweak to make it better?

Also I dont seems to be able to share printing..

Trying to connect my HP1200 with workstation (W8Pro) but was unsuccessful..

So anyone can help??

As Gribber have mentioned most of the cellphones out there is only 1R1T configuration including IPhones as well, reason simply being all the phone manufacturers will try to design their phone to minimize battery consumption to the fullest possible, imagine having 2R2T on cellphones? battery drain will even faster

Then again what the hell people use mobile Speedtest to gauge with their fiber internet? Can you really feel browsing of webpages more smoothly if the mobile Speedtest shows 50Mbps? and feel sluggish when shows 30Mbps?

Unless someone is saying that he/she is using their WiFi to download GBs of stuff into their phones then i have nothing to say

By setting your Tx power to 200mW is useless, it will not improve your range if your devices is in a dead zone part of the house

The nice thing about claiming high(er) power is that it can easily and reliably be measured and verified. In fact, maximum power measurement is required for FCC certification, to ensure that products don't exceed mandated limits. So there is no worry about being sued for false claims (one reason why manufacturers stopped specifying range performance).

Unfortunately, simply swapping out your current router for a high(er) power usually doesn't help increase your wireless coverage. The 802.11 standards that all Wi-Fi networks are built on use a "positive acknowledgement" protocol. That means each data packet (or frame) that is sent must be acknowledged by the receiver via a reply back to the sender. If no acknowledgement is received, the sender will try again and again until a timeout is reached and the sender gives up and drops the connection.

So when you increase the power on a wireless router or access point (AP), all this does is make it "shout louder". Sure, a wireless notebook in a dead zone may now be able to "hear" the router, where it couldn't before. But unless the client can shout just as loudly back, the client won't be able to communicate with the AP and the connection will be dropped or won't be made at all..

Full read ~> Why High Power Routers Don't Improve Range - SmallNetBuilder

As for the HP1200, i will ask ASUS SG to take a look and check with ASUS TW

PS ~> Just for your curiosity

 

[maylyn]

Does increasing Tx really help? Will it increase temperature alot?
I'm still having wirless range issues around my house.

I have mine placed in front of my aircon which coincidentally is the only place I have space in my room.

Nope. it's marginal gain at best

and yes, it's does increase the temperature

Check my above post quoted

1). What you can do is relocation of your router to areas that are centralized of your house, use InSSIDer to determine best least used 2.4GHz channels, try to use non-overlapping 2.4GHz channels if possible
2). Add another router and set as AP (recommended)
3). Add repeater if your primary concern is wireless range over speed as repeater will halve your wireless speed

 

[shadowandy]

Anybody using 3rd party firmware on their ASUS RT-N66U like TomatoUSB?

Like to check if anybody is using QoS with broadband (>100Mbps)

 

[maylyn]

Anybody using 3rd party firmware on their ASUS RT-N66U like TomatoUSB?

Like to check if anybody is using QoS with broadband (>100Mbps)

Good work shadowandy

Nice to know that TomatoUSB firmware works with RT-N66U but most will like Merlin's firmware tho

Don't even need QoS for Fiber Internet

 

[shadowandy]

Good work shadowandy

Nice to know that TomatoUSB firmware works with RT-N66U but most will like Merlin's firmware tho

Don't even need QoS for Fiber Internet

Actually simultaneous downloads will likely max out the bw hence QoS might be good if want to set aside some bandwidth for games or VoIP usage.

Just that I am facing some performance impact when QoS is enabled. Like to check with others to see if they have any solution.

Another nice feature is advertisement blocking using ASUS RT-N66U

 

[vkvkvvk]

Nope. it's marginal gain at best

and yes, it's does increase the temperature

Check my above post quoted

1). What you can do is relocation of your router to areas that are centralized of your house, use InSSIDer to determine best least used 2.4GHz channels, try to use non-overlapping 2.4GHz channels if possible
2). Add another router and set as AP (recommended)
3). Add repeater if your primary concern is wireless range over speed as repeater will halve your wireless speed

Thanks for the advice, relocating is abit hard as my fiber terminal point is in my room too. I've already selected the least used channel used by using InSSIDer to check.

The problem that I face is only affecting wireless devices like smart phones, latops and ip cameras around the house further away from my router. But I do have a asus EA-N66 in the living room which has no wireless issues connected to my rt-n66u using 5ghz. [can achieve consistent 90+mbps on speedtest using a 100mbps fiber plan, transferring huge files is on avg 20mb/s]

Right now it is connected this way. RT-N66U[my room] -> EA-N66[living room] -> D-LINK 5 Port Gigabit switch[living room] -> wired to 2 HTPCs [1 in dinning area and the other in Living room]

I'm thinking of getting a 2nd hand rounter like RT-N15U and connect it this way:
RT-N66U -> EA-N66 through 5ghz -> RT-N15U -> wired to 2 htpcs
Will it work this way?

 

[spilksch]

is he on M1 Fibre broadband?

there's an offer from M1 where you can purchase the Asus RT-N66U router for only S$209, with 3 years local warranty. I just bought it.

Just replaced the Dlink DIR-655 with the Asus RT-N66U, wireless performance seems much better.

However, my wired LAN not as fast. Maybe its because of the slow Buffalo LinkStation Quad.

oh that's a nice price! he hasn't decided on provider.. although i'm recommending to him non-traffic light providers.

 

[Saline]

question:

any idea how do i configure my external drive to be readable via network?
i plugged it in the N66 then enable DLNA.
I go to my network it showed as a media device.
i want to be able to write,read the files.

 

[oric1]

question:

any idea how do i configure my external drive to be readable via network?
i plugged it in the N66 then enable DLNA.
I go to my network it showed as a media device.
i want to be able to write,read the files.

I think you must enable FTP share or Network Place(Samba) Share / Cloud Disk

 

[ngbc]

The Demo of the router UI is broken:
ASUS Service | North America

Anyone know the new url ?

 

[maylyn]

The Demo of the router UI is broken:
ASUS Service | North America

Anyone know the new url ?

Here you go

ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U - Network Map

 

[Saline]

I think you must enable FTP share or Network Place(Samba) Share / Cloud Disk

enabled already... but it doesnt change the icon.. =/
anymore ideas?
really appreciate it

 

[oric1]

enabled already... but it doesnt change the icon.. =/
anymore ideas?
really appreciate it

1. go to "FTP Share" and click "Share with account"

2. you can create more user accounts or use the default admin account

3. use any FTP client to FTP to your router @ 192.168.1.1

btw, not sure what you meant by doesn't change the icon

 

[Saline]

1. go to "FTP Share" and click "Share with account"

2. you can create more user accounts or use the default admin account

3. use any FTP client to FTP to your router @ 192.168.1.1

btw, not sure what you meant by doesn't change the icon

hmm what i'm trying to achieve is to make it showup as a 'network drive'

 

[oric1]

hmm what i'm trying to achieve is to make it showup as a 'network drive'

For my Synology NAS I'm able to map it as a network drive but I'm not sure how to do it for external storage devices attached to N66.

For external HD attached to my N66, I usually use FTP to transfer files instead. Perhaps other users can help. Sorry.