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Jimmy Stang · 08-07-2016, 11:14 PM

For ASUS users:

Even though I joked earlier about "only" getting 155, my average speed test was actually a fair bit lower. 110-120, despite the odd peak near 150. It didn't seem to matter what speed test server I used either. Even though that's still overkill for my needs, I was a bit curious (and jealous) of you guys and your 179 boastful speed tests. This may seem odd coming from the guy who had 25 Mbps and was completely happy with it, but it just seemed that something was slowing it down.

I noticed that my ASUS router (RT-AC66U) CPU was maxing out when I was doing a speed test, so I started to suspect that my router may be the bottleneck. Apparently there are two features that automatically disable hardware acceleration: traffic monitoring per IP, and QoS. I guess I had enabled the per IP traffic monitoring, so hardware acceleration was automatically disabled. So I turned off IP traffic monitoring, rebooted, verified that HW acceleration enabled itself, and ran a speed test. Boom. 179 Mbps.

So if you're an ASUS router user and suspect that you're not keeping up with CP averages, check to see that HW acceleration is enabled.

08-07-2016, 11:14 PM	#419
Jimmy Stang Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Calgary Exp:	For ASUS users: Even though I joked earlier about "only" getting 155, my average speed test was actually a fair bit lower. 110-120, despite the odd peak near 150. It didn't seem to matter what speed test server I used either. Even though that's still overkill for my needs, I was a bit curious (and jealous) of you guys and your 179 boastful speed tests. This may seem odd coming from the guy who had 25 Mbps and was completely happy with it, but it just seemed that something was slowing it down. I noticed that my ASUS router (RT-AC66U) CPU was maxing out when I was doing a speed test, so I started to suspect that my router may be the bottleneck. Apparently there are two features that automatically disable hardware acceleration: traffic monitoring per IP, and QoS. I guess I had enabled the per IP traffic monitoring, so hardware acceleration was automatically disabled. So I turned off IP traffic monitoring, rebooted, verified that HW acceleration enabled itself, and ran a speed test. Boom. 179 Mbps. So if you're an ASUS router user and suspect that you're not keeping up with CP averages, check to see that HW acceleration is enabled.