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Effect of CTF on WLAN NAS access speeds
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I have had an R7000 for a year or so now, happily running Tomato with a vpn connection. I live outside the country, so we need VPN 24/7. Internet is expensive here, so I can only afford a10Mbs connection, which Tomato and the VPN handle just fine.
Recently, I tried to set up a NAS drive on the network, plugged into the 3.0 USB port of the router. It’s just a little portable drive, nothing fast, and it reads/writes about 800 Mbps when connected directly to my laptop. When I connected it to the router's 3.0 port, though, I am only getting about a 170 Mbps read and a 60 Mbps write. I did some research (because I am not very skilled or literate in IT stuff) and found out that fast NAT is not available for my version of Tomato but that CTF was. When I enable CTF in the Tomato GUI, I get the same speeds, perhaps a tad faster. This confirms what has been stated in this forum; CTF has little to no effect on WLAN NAS access speeds.
So, my question is simply, what if anything can I do to increase my speeds for accessing my NAS drive wirelessly through Tomato? Are these speeds the highest I can hope for? As stated, I need to continue running Tomato for the VPN, so I can’t revert to the Netgear OS. BTW, all this was done on the 5 GHz connection.
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CTF only works for WAN to LAN and reverse. What you get is the maximum supported read/write speed for storage on this router. AFAIK, there is no way to increase that
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CTF only works for WAN to LAN and reverse. What you get is the maximum supported read/write speed for storage on this router. AFAIK, there is no way to increase that
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Re: Effect of CTF on WLAN NAS access speeds
... and advice on alternative firmware, like Tomato, is usually best sought over where they support it. There are users of home-rolled firmware here, but not that many.
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Re: Effect of CTF on WLAN NAS access speeds
that makes sense. thanks. I would gladly be using the netgear firmware if it allowed for a vpn connection.
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