CeroWrt 3.10.50-1 Field Report

Comments on the CeroWrt 3.10.50-1 build that I installed on my WNDR3700v2 primary router:

  • Seemed to install and configure properly (I retrieved the updated version with the lighthttpd fix)

  • I used a local copy of config-cerowrt.sh (from https://github.com/richb-hanover/CeroWrtScripts#config-cerowrtsh) to configure the router to have my own DSL user/pw, SSID names, etc.

  • mDNS seems to work across subnets. (I don’t think that it worked properly for the last few CeroWrt releases)

  • The first time I looked, /usr/lib/CeroWrtScripts didn’t seem to have been updated with the latest from github.com (see link above). But I looked again (after a reboot, and running the config-cerowrt.sh script, and another reboot (maybe something else)), and the script matches the github version… Not sure how that could have happened.

  • Debloating seems to be working as expected. netperf-wrapper with RRUL shows a jump from 60 to 80 msec (normal on my 7mbps/768kbps DSL link). Here’s the plot:

speedof.me

Doc Searls mentioned in passing that he uses a new speed test website. I checked it out, and it was very cool…

www.speedof.me is an all-HTML5 website that seems to make accurate measurements of the up and download speeds of your internet connection. It’s also very attractive, and the real-time plots of the speed show interesting info. (See below.)

Now if we could get them to include a latency measurement so people could point out their bufferbloated equipment.