I did a bittorrent test on DIR-300 on its D-LINK firmware earlier this month. Well the router seems capable of handling moderate bittorrent load then.

Recently, Brainslayer released DD-WRT firmware for DIR-300. Hence it prompted me to redo the bittorrent test. 3rd party firmwares are often touted to be more robust and have more functionalities. Let see if the robustness feature holds true.

Like the previous test, I tried to maintain the number of connections above 500. But I have increase the number of global connections to 1120. Allowing up to 5 concurrent downloads of 280 connections.

The number of torrents (from ubuntu and openoffice) allowed the number of connections to be around 700 to 800 range. Maintained the number of connections until the files were completed (roughly 3 hours).

The router survived the test! If your router is still on default firmware and hangs during bittorrenting. You might wish to flash your router. Do take note that this is just a conservative test. It is to check if the 3rd party firmware improve bittorrent condition so you might wish to test the limit of DIR-300 by setting higher connection values.