How to replace / supplement NetGear WNR3500L? Poor performance

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v0rtex2012-09-08 09:12:03

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v0rtex, 2012-09-08 09:12:03

Welcome all. I have a fairly well-known NetGear WNR3500L router with a usb hard drive connected for file cleaning. It has Tomato's firmware with the following goodies:

1) Transmission torrent rocker
2) FTP
3) Samba
4) DLNA
5) DynNDS

The functionality is good, but the speed is not.

I download the torrent over the air through the router to my computer (uTorrent is installed on the computer and the file is saved to the laptop's hard drive). Downloads at a speed of 4.7 megabytes per second, which is equal to my tariff rate of 40 megabits.

I download the same torrent with a router (transmission client on hard, which is connected to the router). The maximum speed is 1.5 megabytes per second.

Any other actions with moving files to the HDD of the router (download\upload to FTP, download\upload to a shared folder) jump about 1.5 - 2 megabytes per second.

I asked a question on the ixbt forum - I received the following answers:

1) You can not look, you still won’t get more speed.
2) The processor of the router chokes, and the hard works noticeably slower when connected to the router.

From this I conclude: change the router (for what?) Or maybe buy another separate NAS (what?)
If you take a NAS, will it be difficult to set up to set it up for me to stand out “outside”?

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artyomst, 2012-09-08
@artyomst

Probably trite, but still the advice is mini-ITX + Linux.

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rusmikev, 2012-09-08
@rusmikev

The answers to ixbt are, in principle, to the point. It will be cheaper in this situation to take NAS.
The weak point of router chips is the speed of working with disks, but if you take a piece of iron like Lynxis E4200v2, then there will be problems with alternative firmware, and the price is not encouraging.
The problem with access from the outside is solved using port forwarding.

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Ad3pt, 2012-09-08
@Ad3pt

Maybe it makes sense to look towards more productive routers. For example, the WNDR4500 delivers about 10 MB/s in tests . Alternative firmware for this model, apparently, already exists

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cepera_ang, 2012-09-11
@cepera_ang

Take a simple NAS from a couple of disks, connect with gigabit - there will be speed at full tariff, and file access will be fast and protection from failure.

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v0rtex, 2012-09-12
@v0rtex

www.ledoshop.ru/catalog/product_descripts/prod_id/66890 Will such a thing with beer pull as a separate NAS?

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samurai, 2012-09-17
@samurai

I have the same router (firmware from enthusiasts) and just yesterday I connected an HDD to it. Simple copying from a disk through samba is limited to a speed of 10 Mb / s, while loading its CPU at 100%. Tried through NFS - the same thing. I checked reading from the disk in /dev/null and it's already 25 MB/s, i.e. samba/NFS eat up a lot of resources. Not to mention the torrent client and stuff. FTP did not try, but they say it is not better, and it will not work either. Asus colleague is more powerful - the same trouble. In short, as I understand it, a normal NAS cannot be made from a router, or a very expensive model is needed. In any case, a separate NAS is much more functional. I prefer the option mentioned above: mini-ITX + Linux or nettop if you don't need a lot of screws.