From: "Sam Lewis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:26:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] WRT54G
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Lewis,
I finally went to wikipedia and compared my WRT54G Ver 8 to the
WRT54GS2.  They both have the same CPU speed, memory and flash drive
size (240MHz/8MB/2MB).  So I am really perplexed at the performance
difference.

I am going to switch routers at the two locations and verify the
problems is with the GS2.

I am also surprised that these are full blown layer 2 switches!  They
are 5 port switch's on different VLAN's for the LAN and WAN sides.

Does the DD-WRT firmware have support for VLAN's, RSTP, IGMP and so
on? If so I may update one of these units for some testing scenario's.

I haven't bothered with Tech support and I'm not sure that I will.
Seems like I have less available time while unemployed the when I was
employed so I would rather not waste it when I could be educating
myself.

Thanks for the link,
Sam

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:43 PM, chekmarx
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> You are a veritable font of information!=A0 I never would have thought to
> check WiKiPedia for info on LinkSys routers.
> I think I'm going to need to spend some time on WiKiPedia just searching
> around for various things.=A0 Apparently it is more comprehensive than I =
ever
> imagined.
>
> Thanks Lewis
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal
> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Sam...
>>
>> On 03/24/10 05:59 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote :
>>>
>>> I too have a WRT54G and have no problems with it, as far as I know.
>>> However I bought a WRT54GS2 last year and used it for about 6 months
>>> with no issues. =A0I had turned the WiFi off altogether since I only
>>> needed the wired portion.
>>>
>>> I have since loaned it to a friend and set it up for them with WPA2
>>> and have noticed when doing something intense like printing across the
>>> WiFi to an HP DeskJet or running DNS Benchmark pings to the ISP's
>>> gateway can take 2 to 4 seconds. =A0I saw this behavior before using th=
e
>>> WPA2 as well.
>>>
>>> Do these newer models have underpowered CPU's? =A0Or do I have a bad un=
it?
>>>
>>> I have the same ISP and doing the same test on my WRT54G my max ping
>>> time is 28ms vs. 3800ms on the other router. =A0However I do get a few
>>> request timeouts.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> WPA in general introduces a fair amount of overhead. LinkSys would
>> probably tell you that there is nothing abnormal, although the rest of u=
s
>> would consider it most annoying. You should probably test when wired and
>> then compare those stats to the wireless performance to see if the issue=
 is
>> isolated to the Wi-Fi or is system-wide.
>>
>> Depending upon the generation of WRT54G you have, you likely have more R=
AM
>> but less CPU power than in the GS2 model.
>>
>> Wikipedia actually has a pretty decent rundown of specs (memory & CPU) o=
f
>> the various WRT54G models:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> --
>> Lewis
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