OpenWRT USB performance on TP-Link TL-WDR3500
Yesterday i've flashed openwrt on my new router and configured the samba server etc., anticipating to get useful transfer speeds from the USB drive that i've connected. For testing purposes (and because my bus powered external usb3 hdd won't work) i used a ext4 formatted 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive to test the transfer speeds from the router. Below are the transfer speeds tested on the router itself via ssh:
$hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 176 MB in 2.00 seconds = 87.92 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 74 MB in 3.00 seconds = 24.65 MB/sec
$time dd count=128 bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=test.test
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
real 0m 15.60s
user 0m 0.01s
sys 0m 2.70s
~ 8.5 MB/s
These values seem to be ok, but the speeds via sftp or samba are total opposite. I've connected my laptop via ethernet-cable and wlan, both times with the same worse transfer rates. Via samba i've got 1.1 MB/s and via sftp even worse 300 kB/s, the drop is caused by the encryption but 300 kB/s are a joke. That is totally unusable, the stock firmware was 10 times faster, but i would like to keep OpenWRT on my router. Is this maybe a configuration issue?
Yesterday i've flashed openwrt on my new router and configured the samba server etc., anticipating to get useful transfer speeds from the USB drive that i've connected. For testing purposes (and because my bus powered external usb3 hdd won't work) i used a ext4 formatted 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive to test the transfer speeds from the router. Below are the transfer speeds tested on the router itself via ssh:
$hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 176 MB in 2.00 seconds = 87.92 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 74 MB in 3.00 seconds = 24.65 MB/sec
$time dd count=128 bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=test.test
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
real 0m 15.60s
user 0m 0.01s
sys 0m 2.70s
~ 8.5 MB/s
These values seem to be ok, but the speeds via sftp or samba are total opposite. I've connected my laptop via ethernet-cable and wlan, both times with the same worse transfer rates. Via samba i've got 1.1 MB/s and via sftp even worse 300 kB/s, the drop is caused by the encryption but 300 kB/s are a joke. That is totally unusable, the stock firmware was 10 times faster, but i would like to keep OpenWRT on my router. Is this maybe a configuration issue?
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