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R6300 Poor Local Ping.
Hello there! I have an R6300 router. The router is connected to a cable modem and off out to the world. Everything is hard-wired and I have tried replacing cables and so on. All transfer speeds see...
Thank you for the great reply. Just one question, what exactly do you mean by "hardware acceleration"?
"Hardware acceleration" refers to ability of the router to process and forward traffic without involving the general purpose CPU. The packets are handled by the router's chipset (i.e. Broadcom, Qualcomm, etc.). It's similar to processing video through a computer's GPU or CPU. The GPU can do it much more efficiently and faster than the CPU.
How is this changed then? I can't see any setting for that.