Hello all...

Well, with medical issues, and having a busy week, I didn't get back right away. Here's the DSLReports Speedtest runs I took.

My results here are pretty variable, so I don't know how trustworthy they are or how worth while to you guys, vs FLENT runs.

The lower block is using Toke's 11-18 C7 FW build, the upper block is with the 11-24 build.

Upshot, on my Archer C7, both ran for days with no apparent issues, on my home network. Interesting note, I ran both the C7 v2 and the C7 v3, both ran fine. So, if you end up with a v3, it shouldn't be an issue. Further side note, the different configuration of the v3 model, with both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz on the external "rabbit ears" antennas, seems to have a bit stronger signal on 2.4Ghz on the other end of my house, than the v2 model that has 3 separate, small 2.4Ghz antennas inside the box. Caveat, my testing of that wasn't very thourough..

My overall home network setup is: Cox cable - SB6146 modem - Archer C7 router - various clients. I did testing on a PC plugged directely in a eth port of the C7, to PC's using Netgear Netgear WNA3100 N300, and A6200 AC1200 USB adapters.

Below are the links to DSLReports, on the tests. Most have cake, and piece of cake, and Noah's suggested settings, with speed caps of 55 and 5 mbit. My cable is supposed to be 60/6, I see 65 often, with wild speed variation on the UL, settling to 5-6mbits.

I have the Speedtest settings set for hi res bufferbloat, test time extended to 20sec, which is about as long as you can go without pushing the start of the test off the end of that graph.

Let me know if this is in any way useful, or what I can do to make it more worth looking at. It seems so variable and random, that I wonder about the worth, as well as you don't get a good look at what the latencey is over time, vs FLENT.

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eth0 to router - no SQM

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6656688 Starts near 60, plateau 64-65 (hits 66) then drops to 52-54 at the 10sec mark. UL hits 18, before falling down to a 4.5-5.5 average Bloat C

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6657058 very similar, but bloat an A this time

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6657916 " Bloat a C this time

now C7 V2, with Toke 11-24 FW SQM 55/5

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6659367 51.2 1.65, bloat B

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6659493 52.4 3.01 bloat A peak of 300-400ms on all including idle?

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Earlier tests with Toke's 11-18 FW, SQM 55/5 mbits

Wish I wasn't out of town still... I could have got some time with the new one. Had been running the 11-18 build version of yours, on a C7 v2 in my mixed home network enviroment. N devices, AC devices, a semi rogue N range extender, all running WPA2-AES.

I did see some occasional large amounts of bloat, most of the time good behavior. Occasional odd, regular thru put drops to 1/4 speed. I mentioned this in earlier posts, have done some more detailed testing since, that's at home and unavailable till I'm home again. You could see a few DSLReports logs in my posts.

Hope that helps...