Hi,
I just bought the new "ASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless-N900 Router" and gave it a short test.
The unpacking video can be found here:
youtu.be/ba1qKZwhvLA
I have three locations, where I test my Wifi connection.
1) My office where the router is located. The laptop is about one meter away from the router.
2) Living room. About 20 meters distance to the router with only 2 thin walls between it.
3) Kitchen. About 30 meters distance to the router with 2 thin walls and one thicker wall between.
Speedtest has been done with the program "LAN Speed Test" version 1.1.7.
download.cnet.com/LAN-Speed-T...-10908738.html
Used inSSIDer to messure the signal strenth at each point.
www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
Comparing those 3 routers.
Netgear WNDR4500 - Firmware: Netgear Version 1.0.0.70
D-Link DIR825 - Firmware: OpenWRT Backfire 10.03.1
ASUS RT-N66U - Firmware: 3.0.0.3.72
My WIFI card in the laptop is a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (2 antenna only)
Router was set to 40MHz and N-only if possible. Otherwise set to 20/40MHz auto.
1st location - Office
WNDR4500 on 2.4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 25/27 Mbps
Upload/Download of 50 MB = 32/26 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 32/27 Mbps
Signal strength = 26 RSSI
DIR-825 on 2,4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 101/109 Mbps
Upload/Download of 50 MB = 104/109 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 102/109 Mbps
Signal strength = 32 RSSI
ASUS RT-N66U on 2,4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 66/63 Mbps
Upload/Download of 50 MB = 85/56 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 86/60 Mbps
Signal strength = 25 RSSI
WNDR4500 on 5 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 45/50 Mbps
Upload/Download of 50 MB = 50/37 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 48/45 Mbps
Signal strength = 40 RSSI
DIR-825 on 5 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 104/107 Mbps
Upload/Download of 50 MB = 106/88 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 101/77 Mbps
Signal strength = 35 RSSI
ASUS RT-N66U on 5 GHZ
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 110/118 Mbps
Upload/Download of 50 MB = 99/116 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 107/114 Mbps
Signal strength = 30 RSSI
2nd location - living room
WNDR4500 on 2.4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 23/19 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 26/15 Mbps
Signal strength = 48 RSSI
DIR-825 on 2,4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 75/80 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 77/112 Mbps
Signal strentgh = 49 RSSI
ASUS RT-N66U on 2.4 GHZ
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 77/81 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 79/74 Mbps
Signal strength = 36 RSSI
WNDR4500 on 5 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 50/91 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 51/75 Mbps
Signal strength = 50 RSSI
DIR-825 on 5 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 79/104 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 77/112 Mbps
Signal strength = 56 RSSI
ASUS RT-N66U on 5 GHZ
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 107/115 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 109/108 Mbps
Signal strength =50 RSSI
3rd location - kitchen
WNDR4500 on 2.4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 18/13 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 18/- Mbps (canceled due to low speed)
Signal strength = 54 RSSI
DIR-825 on 2,4 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 25/23 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 23/37 Mbps
Signal strength = 53 RSSI
ASUS RT-N66U on 2,4 GHZ
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 70/55 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 67/62 Mbps
Signal strength =44 RSSI
WNDR4500 on 5 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 48/78 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 52/55 Mbps
Signal strength = 60 RSSI
DIR-825 on 5 GHz
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 42/75 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 48/84 Mbps
Signal strength = 66 RSSI
ASUS RT-N66U on 5 GHZ
Upload/Download of 20 MB = 85/80 Mbps
Upload/Download of 100 MB = 104/78 Mbps
Signal strength = 50 RSSI
As you see on the 5 GHz the performance is outstanding even when using only a 2 steam antenna! Also the router has a very strong Wifi signal as you see on the signal strengh compared to the other two routers.
On the Asus router you can activate telnet to login to the router.
Same information here:
Quote:
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# uname -a
Linux RT-N66U 2.6.22.19 #1 Tue Nov 22 10:29:48 CST 2011 mips GNU/Linux
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Quote:
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : Broadcom BCM5300 chip rev 1 pkg 0
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 74K V4.9
BogoMIPS : 299.82
wait instruction : no
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 64
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : yes
ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp
shadow register sets : 1
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available
unaligned_instructions : 3
dcache hits : 2147483648
dcache misses : 2466245968
icache hits : 2147483648
icache misses : 2571660263
instructions : 2147483648
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Quote:
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 255560 kB
MemFree: 219072 kB
Buffers: 5264 kB
Cached: 14904 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 10756 kB
Inactive: 13492 kB
HighTotal: 131072 kB
HighFree: 107800 kB
LowTotal: 124488 kB
LowFree: 111272 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 4088 kB
Mapped: 3588 kB
Slab: 6676 kB
SReclaimable: 1024 kB
SUnreclaim: 5652 kB
PageTables: 404 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 127780 kB
Committed_AS: 10384 kB
VmallocTotal: 1015800 kB
VmallocUsed: 4636 kB
VmallocChunk: 1009144 kB
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Quote:
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: CPU: BCM5300 rev 1 pkg 0 at 600 MHz
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Using 300.000 MHz high precision timer.
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Memory: 255144k/131068k available (2411k kernel code, 6704k reserved, 504k data, 124k init, 131072k highmem)
Jan 1 01:00:07 kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (2048 buckets, 16384 max)
Jan 1 01:00:07 kernel: eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.138.9
Jan 1 01:00:07 kernel: eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.100.138.9
Jan 1 01:00:07 kernel: eth2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.100.138.9
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Looking forward to see the first test form Smallnetbuilder.com on this product.
/Geraner
P.S. see my review after two weeks of usage of the RT-N66U.
