[SOLVED] Tenda AC1200 AC6 wan and how to do a lan to wan

[thinkinbro]

I not understand why that router have 800mbps+ speeds on wifi, and wan speeds up to 100mbps. Is a way to do lan port to a wan port, or to increase the wan speed?

 

[alceryes]

Your max WAN speed is going to be your internet speed (in most cases). What is the speed provided by your ISP?

Also, your WAN to LAN speeds on some routers top out at 100-200Mbps due to computational or programming limitations. Traffic to/from the WAN to the LAN/WLAN could be NATed, firewalled, QoSd, or have a host of other limits and rules that that traffic has to follow. All of this creates computational overhead that your router has to process. Usually this isn't a problem due to ISP speeds being slower than internal LAN/WLAN speeds.

 

[thinkinbro]

Your max WAN speed is going to be your internet speed (in most cases). What is the speed provided by your ISP?

Also, your WAN to LAN speeds on some routers top out at 100-200Mbps due to computational or programming limitations. Traffic to/from the WAN to the LAN/WLAN could be NATed, firewalled, QoSd, or have a host of other limits and rules that that traffic has to follow. All of this creates computational overhead that your router has to process. Usually this isn't a problem due to ISP speeds being slower than internal LAN/WLAN speeds.

i got 1000mbps, tested with lan cable direct to pc, 132mb/s on pc. I want to use that router to its potential.

 

[SamirD]

i got 1000mbps, tested with lan cable direct to pc, 132mb/s on pc. I want to use that router to its potential.

Re-read alceryes's post.

 

[thinkinbro]

Re-read alceryes's post.

i saw what it said, that router is powerful enough to reach higher speeds, i didnt find(yet) a custom firmware, or how to edit that firmware.
if i can`t do that, i will not understand why Tenda made a router that is capable of 800mbps on wifi, and have a 100mbps wan speed. Is a waste of power in the end.

 

[thinkinbro]

The single thing i need to do is to change atributes on VLAN(to use a lan as a wan), i did that before, on other router, but that was a long time ago, and i don`t know how to do that in a Tenda.

 

[bill001g]

Because the 800 number is a lie...err marketing number. This is like calling a gigabit ethernet cable 2gbit because you added the transmit and receive speeds together. Ethernet can actually transmit 1gbit up and down at the same time unlike the numbers on wifi. They also do stuff like add the 2.4g radio speed to the 5g radio speed even though the end device can't actually use both radios at the same time. Lot and lots of other tricks they use to get these numbers.

First tenda is what is called a "value" router so they tend to be very simplistic. They also tend to use processors/chipsets that do not support third party firmware.

Be very careful with third party firmware even if you do find a router that you can load it on. To obtain high speed routers have moved the NAT function off the main cpu into a hardware nat solution. The drivers for this hardware are either not released or they are not allowed to be redistributed so they do not link them into the pre built third party images.

What this means is that your traffic now must now all pass through the main cpu. Even the fastest routers cpu get only 200-300mbps wan-lan when you use the CPU rather than the acceleration hardware.

You best bet but I am not 100% sure is to use merlin firmware on a asus router. It has the NAT assist feature. The part I don't know is if you use the vlan support if the hardware assist is disabled. I know very simple feature like traffic monitoring require you turn disable the hardware assist. The only way the cpu can report on the traffic is if it sees it and when you have the hardware assist on it is bypassing the cpu chip.

 

[alceryes]

Please list the exact model number of your router.

 

[thinkinbro]

I dont see on the label the Model Number, just the serial number and pin number. And in the Tendas settings it dont apear.

 

[thinkinbro]

Because the 800 number is a lie...err marketing number. This is like calling a gigabit ethernet cable 2gbit because you added the transmit and receive speeds together. Ethernet can actually transmit 1gbit up and down at the same time unlike the numbers on wifi. They also do stuff like add the 2.4g radio speed to the 5g radio speed even though the end device can't actually use both radios at the same time. Lot and lots of other tricks they use to get these numbers.

First tenda is what is called a "value" router so they tend to be very simplistic. They also tend to use processors/chipsets that do not support third party firmware.

Be very careful with third party firmware even if you do find a router that you can load it on. To obtain high speed routers have moved the NAT function off the main cpu into a hardware nat solution. The drivers for this hardware are either not released or they are not allowed to be redistributed so they do not link them into the pre built third party images.

What this means is that your traffic now must now all pass through the main cpu. Even the fastest routers cpu get only 200-300mbps wan-lan when you use the CPU rather than the acceleration hardware.

You best bet but I am not 100% sure is to use merlin firmware on a asus router. It has the NAT assist feature. The part I don't know is if you use the vlan support if the hardware assist is disabled. I know very simple feature like traffic monitoring require you turn disable the hardware assist. The only way the cpu can report on the traffic is if it sees it and when you have the hardware assist on it is bypassing the cpu chip.

i will give it a try, i don`t have nothing to lose.

 

[thinkinbro]

from merlin i didnt find any asus router with the same cpu. i saw that tenda ac9 have a firmware, and i will try to install it(hope i will not brick my router).

 

[bill001g]

Merlin is only supported on asus routers. I did not mean you should try it on the tenda more when you find out the tenda will not work buy a asus that supports merlin.

 

[SamirD]

You're not understanding anything anyone is telling you.

Your router is not designed for >100Mbps WAN to LAN speeds no matter what your LAN to LAN speeds are.

Your router is a cheap one designed for the bare basics and just barely to do that right. Mess with it and you'll break it.

If you don't heed what is said here and we don't hear from you again, I'm sure you've borked your router and can't get online anymore.

If you want more, buy something better that is capable of routing faster.

 

[thinkinbro]

You're not understanding anything anyone is telling you.

Your router is not designed for >100Mbps WAN to LAN speeds no matter what your LAN to LAN speeds are.

Your router is a cheap one designed for the bare basics and just barely to do that right. Mess with it and you'll break it.

If you don't heed what is said here and we don't hear from you again, I'm sure you've borked your router and can't get online anymore.

If you want more, buy something better that is capable of routing faster.

that router i bought just for testing, and playin` with it. i try to study it, and to squeeze all the power from it.

 

[SamirD]

that router i bought just for testing, and playin` with it. i try to study it, and to squeeze all the power from it.

You can't do anything with that thing. It's not a real router, just a consumer one.