Netgear "Fixes" Router with Phone-Home Features That Record IP, MAC Address

[CaptNumbNutz]

myopenrouter.com

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[grtitan]

Only the Netgear firmware can give you full Gigabit WAN speeds due to their proprietary method of Cut-Through-Forwarding.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Ni...-Through-Forwarding-feature-quot/td-p/1080686

Last time I checked, third party firmware could not access/use CTF on the R7000. This is one of those times where I'd love to be shown that the third party devs have worked that out. I have kept stock firmware for that reason for a while now.

Edit: If you're on stock firmware and seeing 50% or less of your Gigabit ISP's rated bandwidth, I'd check to see if you can disable QoS on the router.

I read about that a while ago, so my memory is fuzzy, but a Gbit transfer was limited to one device, i think and it depended on your environment.

Here is a quick article about it, but I will try to find another that was better.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tri-band-wireless-ac-routers-actually-faster/

 

[TechLarry]

Only the Netgear firmware can give you full Gigabit WAN speeds due to their proprietary method of Cut-Through-Forwarding.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Ni...-Through-Forwarding-feature-quot/td-p/1080686

Last time I checked, third party firmware could not access/use CTF on the R7000. This is one of those times where I'd love to be shown that the third party devs have worked that out. I have kept stock firmware for that reason for a while now.

Edit: If you're on stock firmware and seeing 50% or less of your Gigabit ISP's rated bandwidth, I'd check to see if you can disable QoS on the router.

QoS is on my Radar !

 

[TechLarry]

Holy shit, I found the problem.

That GD Traffic Meter!!!

It was taking away almost FOUR FUCKING HUNDRED megabits of my speed.

Turned it off and instead of 425 mbit/sec up and down, I got:

I'm happy now