How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT • Hacker News Board

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

#141

Post by gtwy » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 10:47 AM UTC

I'm sorry but I can't take the author's advice on speed seriously when he's using Comcast's charge-you-every-month modem which is known to get terrible speeds to begin with. Let alone someone who is running wifi between their router and their modem.

If you want the fastest speeds on Comcast, pick up a DOCSIS 3 Motorola Surfboard modem. I'm paying for 100/20. This is what I get with my surfboard http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4251868226

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

#142

Post by gtwy » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 10:49 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #117

0x0 wrote: post #16

Doesn't the xfinitiwifi inject ads MITM-style? I recall seeing some weird html overlays with xfinity ads on random web pages last time I browsed over one of these SSIDs.

> Doesn't the xfinitiwifi inject ads MITM-style? No. I feel like this post should be longer, but I can't think else to say. The answer to your question is: No.

Yes it does, I've used it and it 100% does.

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

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Post by nmc » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 11:00 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #117

0x0 wrote: post #16

Doesn't the xfinitiwifi inject ads MITM-style? I recall seeing some weird html overlays with xfinity ads on random web pages last time I browsed over one of these SSIDs.

> Doesn't the xfinitiwifi inject ads MITM-style? No. I feel like this post should be longer, but I can't think else to say. The answer to your question is: No.

HN advice: when you feel you are right and every one else is wrong, please please quote a source.

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

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Post by pyvpx » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 11:41 AM UTC

listic wrote: post #83

jfroma wrote: post #67

I use this very same feature of openwrt to load balance between my two ISPs. Here in argentina neither of the two ISP are reliable, but cheap enought if you really use then and you need reliability. I recommend multiwan3 as the op suggest, other pkgs didnt work for me. Some modern routers have two radios for 2.5 and 5ghz, but even with one radio openwrt allows you to set it up as client and ap. I find other features…

I was going to go with pfSense for that feature. Do you think it makes sense?

pfSense is a re-packaged FreeBSD. you'll find pfSense doesn't support as wide a variety of platforms (anything MIPS) or wireless cards.

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

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Post by michaelmcmillan » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

m0skit0 wrote: post #27

Am I the only one that sees missing letters? http://s2.postimg.org/vpba0a1wp/image.png

You've got to appreciate the irony of missing letters in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

#146

Post by narrowrail » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 3:08 PM UTC

gtwy wrote: post #141

I'm sorry but I can't take the author's advice on speed seriously when he's using Comcast's charge-you-every-month modem which is known to get terrible speeds to begin with. Let alone someone who is running wifi between their router and their modem. If you want the fastest speeds on Comcast, pick up a DOCSIS 3 Motorola Surfboard modem. I'm paying for 100/20. This is what I get with my surfboard http://www.speedtest.n…

If you reread the post, it is his neighbor that is renting the modem/router, not him.

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

#147

Post by anonbanker » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 6:01 PM UTC

pyvpx wrote: post #144

listic wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to go with pfSense for that feature. Do you think it makes sense?

pfSense is a re-packaged FreeBSD. you'll find pfSense doesn't support as wide a variety of platforms (anything MIPS) or wireless cards.

that's quite disingenuous. it uses pf, openSSH, and LibreSSL (in development version) from OpenBSD on top of a FreeBSD core, and it's wireless card support is not very much below linux (though you might need to work to get it up).

if you have older x86 hardware, it's hard to top pfsense.

Re: How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT

#148

Post by anonbanker » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 6:03 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #83

jfroma wrote: post #67

I use this very same feature of openwrt to load balance between my two ISPs. Here in argentina neither of the two ISP are reliable, but cheap enought if you really use then and you need reliability. I recommend multiwan3 as the op suggest, other pkgs didnt work for me. Some modern routers have two radios for 2.5 and 5ghz, but even with one radio openwrt allows you to set it up as client and ap. I find other features…

I was going to go with pfSense for that feature. Do you think it makes sense?

if you have hardware that supports both pfsense and openWRT, choose pfsense. it's far more robust a package.