[Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Dave Taht]

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/alw2zo/openwrt_sounds_interesting_what_are_the_biggest/

"My primary reason for using OpenWRT is SQM. The cable connection from
my ISP is horribly prone to bufferbloat. When the link is saturated,
my devices would practically lose connectivity because the latency was
so high (over 500 ms). With SQM, I can now do things while
transferring data in the background without experiencing major lag.
SQM is such a critical feature for me that I don't even know what
OpenWRT's other benefits are."

I haven't had to touch sqm personally for years now, and I'd like to
thank everybody for keeping the package updated and relevant.

I wish I knew what the heck went into netduma's anti-bufferbloat
feature, because it seems to be a mixed bag from their userbase.

-- 

Dave Täht
CTO, TekLibre, LLC
http://www.teklibre.com
Tel: 1-831-205-9740

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Matt Taggart]

On 2/1/19 8:28 AM, Dave Taht wrote:

> I haven't had to touch sqm personally for years now, and I'd like to
> thank everybody for keeping the package updated and relevant.

Yes it's great! I was pleasantly surprised the other day when switching
a WNDR3800 from using fq_codel+simple to CAKE+piece_of_cake and getting
a 30mbit improvement (70 to 100, comcast). New life for old hardware!

I'm still on the lookout for a good replacement for the dozen WNDR3800s
I have deployed as Friends-and-Family-IT(tm). Starting to experiment
with espressobin + Linksys PoE switch + Ubiquity APs.
Anyone else have inexpensive, better cpu, and 802.11ac capable
replacements for WNDR3800?

-- 
Matt Taggart
matt@lackof.org

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Matt Taggart wrote:

> Anyone else have inexpensive, better cpu, and 802.11ac capable
> replacements for WNDR3800?

Used WRT1200AC, WRT1900ACv2 or WRT1900ACS.

Anything with Marvell Armada 385 makes for a wonderful CPU based 
forwarding platform. I have WRT1200AC myself (but I don't use the wifi, I 
have Ubiquiti for that). However it does CAKE on my 250/100 Internet 
connection with CPU cycles to spare.

Otherwise I hear a lot about the TP-LINK Archer C7 as some kind of 
"reference stable OpenWrt platform".

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 1 Feb, 2019, at 9:14 pm, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 
> Otherwise I hear a lot about the TP-LINK Archer C7 as some kind of "reference stable OpenWrt platform".

The IQrouter is physically an Archer C7 with a customised OpenWRT build and a sticker covering the TPlink logo.  I'm not sure that it supports 802.11ac, but it does work fine in my setup.

 - Jonathan Morton

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[David Lang]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Matt Taggart wrote:
>
>> Anyone else have inexpensive, better cpu, and 802.11ac capable
>> replacements for WNDR3800?
>
> Used WRT1200AC, WRT1900ACv2 or WRT1900ACS.

I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working well, it's 
one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the info to be 
able to work on it.

I'm working on the c2600 as my replacement for the wndr3800. I tried the C7 but 
it's not really much better than the wndr3800

David Lang

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, David Lang wrote:

> I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working 
> well, it's one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else 
> has the info to be able to work on it.

It's the wifi you're worried about? I've read about people having problems 
with the wifi part.

root@wrt1200:~# uptime
  07:07:52 up 122 days, 21:47,  load average: 1.04, 0.91, 0.58

I don't use its wifi (I use ubiquiti APs for that), but with 250/100 + 
CAKE I still have CPU cycles to spare and also use it as a NAS. Been 
perfectly stable for me with 18.06.1.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[David Lang]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, David Lang wrote:
>
>> I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working well, 
>> it's one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the 
>> info to be able to work on it.
>
> It's the wifi you're worried about? I've read about people having problems 
> with the wifi part.

Yes, it's the wifi development and support that is the biggest problem with 
these APs.

David Lang

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

David Lang <david@lang.hm> writes:

> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, David Lang wrote:
>>
>>> I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working well, 
>>> it's one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the 
>>> info to be able to work on it.
>>
>> It's the wifi you're worried about? I've read about people having problems 
>> with the wifi part.
>
> Yes, it's the wifi development and support that is the biggest problem with 
> these APs.

The Turris Omnia is the same platform but with ath9/10k pcie cards for
WiFi. I'm using one of those as my daily driver. Not exactly cheap,
though :(

-Toke

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Sebastian Moeller]

> On Feb 2, 2019, at 11:36, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> David Lang <david@lang.hm> writes:
> 
>> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, David Lang wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working well, 
>>>> it's one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the 
>>>> info to be able to work on it.
>>> 
>>> It's the wifi you're worried about? I've read about people having problems 
>>> with the wifi part.
>> 
>> Yes, it's the wifi development and support that is the biggest problem with 
>> these APs.
> 
> The Turris Omnia is the same platform but with ath9/10k pcie cards for
> WiFi. I'm using one of those as my daily driver. Not exactly cheap,
> though :(
> 


They also have the turris MOX in the works wich is modular and might also be an interesting option.

Sebastian

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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Aaron Wood]

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What issues do you have with the wifi on the WRT1900AC?  Mine works great.
Although it struggles with cake at >150Mbps or so (when also routing
IPv4/NAT).  But then I'm still on 17.01.1 with driver v10.3.2.0-20170110

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:43 PM David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Matt Taggart wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone else have inexpensive, better cpu, and 802.11ac capable
> >> replacements for WNDR3800?
> >
> > Used WRT1200AC, WRT1900ACv2 or WRT1900ACS.
>
> I had high hopes for these, but the driver development is not working
> well, it's
> one guy at Marvell who does it in his spare time, nobody else has the info
> to be
> able to work on it.
>
> I'm working on the c2600 as my replacement for the wndr3800. I tried the
> C7 but
> it's not really much better than the wndr3800
>
> David Lang
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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Aaron Wood wrote:

> What issues do you have with the wifi on the WRT1900AC?  Mine works 
> great. Although it struggles with cake at >150Mbps or so (when also 
> routing IPv4/NAT).  But then I'm still on 17.01.1 with driver 
> v10.3.2.0-20170110

Sounds like you have the WRT1900ACv1 (with Armada XP SoC) considering your 
speed estimations?

Does this have the same wifi hardware as the Armada 385 based devices 
(WRT1200AC, WRT1900ACv2, WRT1900ACS, WRT3200AC)? According to:

https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1900ac_v1
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1900ac_v2
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1200ac

it's all based on Marvell 88W8864 but I don't know if it's actually the 
same chip.

OpenWrt 18.06.2 was released a few days back, I'm going to test it on my 
spare WRT1200AC. If someone can tell me their wifi problems I can try to 
replicate it with that hw...

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] I so love seeing stuff like this

[Aaron Wood]

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Yes, I have the v1 (mamba).  I jumped on it when it came out to get a
multicore arm with 802.11ac

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 11:56 PM Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, Aaron Wood wrote:
>
> > What issues do you have with the wifi on the WRT1900AC?  Mine works
> > great. Although it struggles with cake at >150Mbps or so (when also
> > routing IPv4/NAT).  But then I'm still on 17.01.1 with driver
> > v10.3.2.0-20170110
>
> Sounds like you have the WRT1900ACv1 (with Armada XP SoC) considering your
> speed estimations?
>
> Does this have the same wifi hardware as the Armada 385 based devices
> (WRT1200AC, WRT1900ACv2, WRT1900ACS, WRT3200AC)? According to:
>
> https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1900ac_v1
> https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1900ac_v2
> https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt1200ac
>
> it's all based on Marvell 88W8864 but I don't know if it's actually the
> same chip.
>
> OpenWrt 18.06.2 was released a few days back, I'm going to test it on my
> spare WRT1200AC. If someone can tell me their wifi problems I can try to
> replicate it with that hw...
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
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