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| Tim Higgins | |
| June 08, 2006 | |
GL Up And Down ThroughputFigures 7 through 9 are the upload, download and up/down plots for the GL, which show throughput a little more closely matched between up and down than the V5 produced.
Figure 7: Linksys WRT54GL Upload Throughput (click to enlarge)The interesting thing in Figure 8 is that I didn't have to manually stop the GL's download test. So, for whatever reason, the GL's SPI+NAT firewall implementation and IxChariot are able to work things out, while the V5 can't.
Figure 8: Linksys WRT54GL Download Throughput (click to enlarge)Figure 9 shows another surprise - terrible performance for simultaneous up and download streams. So it appears that the V5 actually is much more well-behaved in this regard. Since the GL has the same code-base as its predecessors, I upgraded my original V1 and ran the same tests to see how it did. I found that it also didn't handle simultaneous up and download traffic very nicely with a plot very similar to Figure 9, but with lower throughput.
Figure 9: Linksys WRT54GL Simultaneous Up and Down Throughput (click to enlarge)Tags: Linksys, Router reviews, WiFi, Wireless reviews, Related Articles:Can DD-WRT or Tomato Fix Bad Routing?New to the Charts: Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router Hardware Router Chart - June 2006 Update How We Test Hardware Routers How We Test Hardware Routers 2006 |
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