Gargoyle - Good Family Network Solution

[roadie]

1.5.8 is out now. Seems to work better for me than 1.5.7 for some reason.

 

[Antowns]

I notice you said in your review that the recommended router doesn't have a modem, do you know of any other routers with modems in that this would be compatible with? Reasonably priced of course, can this be flashed onto an N series Netgear?

Edit;

Found this here : http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/doku.php?id=supported_routers_-_tested_routers

 

[tals]

I don't believe their are any routers with inbuilt adsl modems that this will support. Not quite sure why but I think there is a reason.

Happy to be corrected though!

 

[roadie]

Now 1.5.9 is out. I am having one small issue with the firmware though...

 

[tals]

What is the issue you're having. I have 1.5.8 which is working well, not got to 9 as I am not sure what gain I get out of the plugin.

Really hope they put in the gust ssid as well (there is a how to in the feature requests).

Still really pleased with this firmware, my connection is now 15mb but this is still a great qos solution for the amount of streaming my family do (about 200gb a month!!) I no longer monitor the search or web patterns though - pretty much after the posts in here

 

[roadie]

Well the second channel on my 300mbps capable router has disappeared...

I detailed the issue and have had some feedback here.

 

[tals]

I would suggest you post that on the Gargoyle forum, what I would be tempted to try is save your settings and then update without it restoring. I have had problems with previous updates where it needs to go to default to resolve issues

 

[roadie]

Yep I posted at the Gargoyle forum too, but no replies so far...

The Buffalo forum has been by far more helpful.

 

[tals]

One is a commercial solution and one is an open source one.

Did you try resetting to default, rather than restoring?

 

[roadie]

You mean under the System > Backup/Restore menu? Yep tried that on both 1.5.8& 9 with no happiness so far.

 

[tals]

If you have time can you try a firmware update but not keep the settings or restore. I know it seems the same but it isn't. I had one situation where I did an upgrade and after restore some of the qos menus were broke and the only solution was this it may not come to anything.

As soon as you do the update you will see if issue is resolved or not - assuming it is not showing. If that does resolve only a manual reinput will work

Other than that do you have the link to he gargoyle post, just needs someone with the no how to look at the code behind it to see what test is failing.

 

[roadie]

Yeah initially I tried upgrading to 1.5.9 without saving any settings and I have since gone back to 1.5.8 in the same manner. The issue still perseveres for some reason.

Here's the post on the gargoyle forum. Similar to the Buffalo forum, only with no responses!

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3685

 

[tals]

All I can think is no one has that router to comment It could be worth posting in openwrt - depends how much of a pain it is, I only use 1 channel (of my 2)

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

How's this going? Still working well?

I've just ordered the TP-Link TL-WDR3600 which apparently is well-supported by Gargoyle. I am only a bit concerned by the wireless speeds being 300Mbps compared to the 450Mbps I would have liked.

Therefore, I have also ordered the TP-Link TL-WDR4300 which apparently is supported by Gargoyle too (although not as well as the WDR3600), but this does have the 450Mbps on both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands that I am looking for.

The WDR3600 shoud be arriving tomorrow (and the WDR4300 perhaps too), so I'll post my thoughts tomorrow.

 

[tals]

Yes I still use mine, works very well and the QOS also works well. I also have a drive plugged into the USB and have that act as a drive for the nas drive

All in all wouldn't change it and works very nicely

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

Can you give some advice on setting up the auto bandwidth control?

What I'd like: internet works at full speed until other devices, etc. come on, then when all start using data, ping is kept low, so Xbox, etc. can game properly.

 

[tals]

If no other devices are on it will do that anyway, as more devices come on it splits the proportion accordingly. Now how I have set it up is devices per family member so we each get 20% and a catch all of 20%. If 2 members are on then it will give 50% each. In the acc control you can minimise ping.

To do it this way you need to set the IP's so they are set by the router in DHCP and then class to ip accordinly in QOS download. For download enable active congestion control and if your bandwidth is suffering the device will ramp it down accordingly to keep the congestion under control

probably best to look at the menus and holler if you need advice on a specific element

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

Thanks for the response.

I have set the 'ping target' to 30ms and I have tested downloading a file and then running a ping test using pingtest.net, but the ping isn't at 30ms, it's at 100+?

 

[tals]

I wouldn't set it at 30! What that is used for is to determine if congestion occurs and if it is worse than that then it will start ramping down your bandwidth! So generally I would leave it at auto.

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

Okay, I need the ping to be 30ms or below if somebody is downloading and an Xbox is one, so both can occur at the same time. I don't mind if the download slows down.