DIR-825 Performance These are some very basic performance measurements performed using wget and an apache web server, comparing my old WRT54G V2 and my new DIR-825. HTTP Server across Gig Switch 2010-08-21 17:20:23 (112 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1173253368/1173253368] 2010-08-21 17:20:39 (112 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1173253368/1173253368] 2010-08-21 17:20:57 (112 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1173253368/1173253368] 2010-08-21 17:21:28 (112 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1173253368/1173253368] Old Router on 2.4 Ghz w/WPA2 running openwrt 10.03 WHR-G54S 2010-08-21 20:20:23 (2.26 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:21:01 (2.61 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] 2010-08-21 20:21:32 (2.27 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] DIR-825 Stock Firmware Routing LAN to LAN 2010-08-21 17:09:34 (19.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:25:19 (19.6 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:26:11 (19.4 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:26:19 (20.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:27:01 (19.5 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] Wireless Routing No Encryption 2.4 Ghz b/g/n 2010-08-21 17:52:31 (3.56 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:54:14 (4.86 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:54:28 (7.68 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:54:46 (8.18 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 5 Ghz a/n 2010-08-21 17:55:59 (8.84 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:56:28 (8.78 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:56:43 (8.57 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 17:56:58 (8.92 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] WPA2 2.4 Ghz b/g/n 2010-08-21 20:15:10 (7.56 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:15:57 (8.41 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:16:11 (9.12 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:16:52 (8.75 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 5 Ghz a/n 2010-08-21 20:17:38 (6.75 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:18:08 (5.78 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:18:22 (8.39 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:19:15 (8.54 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] Openwrt There's a substantial improvement on the routing speed, but wireless is somewhat degraded. I need to improve the quality of the tests, as they are definately not all taken from the same place and position, but of the router and the Routing Lan to Lan 2010-08-21 20:56:43 (24.5 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:57:39 (24.8 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:57:59 (25.8 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:58:06 (25.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 20:58:26 (26.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] Wireles No Encryption 2.4 Ghz 2010-08-21 21:07:20 (6.48 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:07:49 (7.09 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:08:07 (6.21 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:08:24 (7.73 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 5 Ghz 2010-08-21 21:09:15 (9.20 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:09:58 (5.68 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:09:39 (7.16 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:10:14 (6.54 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:10:31 (8.38 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:10:48 (9.33 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] WPA2 AES 2.4 2010-08-21 21:49:06 (6.28 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:49:30 (5.77 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:49:46 (7.38 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:48:17 (3.90 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:48:36 (6.10 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 5 Ghz Observed Peak Speeds 8.83M/s 9.30M/s 9.12M/s 9.67M/s 2010-08-21 21:55:02 (7.31 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:56:10 (7.34 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:55:15 (8.89 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:56:24 (9.01 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600] 2010-08-21 21:57:05 (9.46 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] 2010-08-21 21:57:12 (9.10 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] 2010-08-21 21:57:18 (9.13 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] OpenVPN Huge Advantage for the DIR-825 here, I've seen better peak speed with the WHR-G54S, up to about 420, WHR-G54S 2010-08-22 20:24:19 (288 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [10485760/10485760] 2010-08-22 20:25:16 (307 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [10485760/10485760] 2010-08-22 20:25:55 (318 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [10485760/10485760] 2010-08-22 20:33:04 (330 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [10485760/10485760] DIR-825 2010-08-22 20:16:52 (4.04 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] 2010-08-22 20:17:12 (4.09 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] 2010-08-22 20:17:26 (4.09 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800] 2010-08-22 20:17:53 (4.06 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [52428800/52428800]