[Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800 improvements?

[Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800 improvements?

[Matt Taggart]

Hi,

I love the WNDR3800 platform, it's been great over the years first with 
cerowrt and then openwrt. Of the many I've deployed I have only had 
hardware problems with 2 of them, and usually uptimes go over 100 days. You 
can also still buy them used for $20 w/free shipping on amazon!

With the recent improvement for cake,  make-wifi-fast, driver improvements, 
etc is there any chance in seeing some of these things land for the 
WNDR3800 specifically? It would be really nice if this hardware could 
continue to do SQM, etc for some of the faster broadband speeds the cable 
providers are offering (comcast xfinity has 100, 200, 250 plans now) and 
see some of the wifi improvements too.

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
matt@lackof.org

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800 improvements?

[Dave Täht]

On 12/13/16 4:58 PM, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I love the WNDR3800 platform, it's been great over the years first with 
> cerowrt and then openwrt. Of the many I've deployed I have only had 
> hardware problems with 2 of them, and usually uptimes go over 100 days. You 
> can also still buy them used for $20 w/free shipping on amazon!
> 
> With the recent improvement for cake,  make-wifi-fast, driver improvements, 
> etc is there any chance in seeing some of these things land for the 
> WNDR3800 specifically? It would be really nice if this hardware could 
> continue to do SQM, etc for some of the faster broadband speeds the cable 
> providers are offering (comcast xfinity has 100, 200, 250 plans now) and 
> see some of the wifi improvements too.

We already support the 3800, although it peaks at 60 mbits of inbound
rate shaping. If your primary use case is wifi, with the latest fq_codel
code, you can live without inbound shaping and probably get 150mbits
well managed.


> 
> Thanks,
> 

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800 improvements?

[Aaron Wood]

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I thought it did better than that with Cake?

-Aaron

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Dave Täht <dave@taht.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/13/16 4:58 PM, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I love the WNDR3800 platform, it's been great over the years first with
> > cerowrt and then openwrt. Of the many I've deployed I have only had
> > hardware problems with 2 of them, and usually uptimes go over 100 days.
> You
> > can also still buy them used for $20 w/free shipping on amazon!
> >
> > With the recent improvement for cake,  make-wifi-fast, driver
> improvements,
> > etc is there any chance in seeing some of these things land for the
> > WNDR3800 specifically? It would be really nice if this hardware could
> > continue to do SQM, etc for some of the faster broadband speeds the cable
> > providers are offering (comcast xfinity has 100, 200, 250 plans now) and
> > see some of the wifi improvements too.
>
> We already support the 3800, although it peaks at 60 mbits of inbound
> rate shaping. If your primary use case is wifi, with the latest fq_codel
> code, you can live without inbound shaping and probably get 150mbits
> well managed.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800 improvements?

[Matt Taggart]

Aaron Wood writes:
> I thought it did better than that with Cake?

Yes, I was referring to newer cake, possible BQL improvements, possible 
ath9k improvements, newer kernel, the stuff listed at 
https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast/wiki/Wifi_Stack_Rework/ 
 etc

I've also seen discussion of "policing" rather than full SQM, etc.

Basically, what is the state of the art we should be running on the 3800?


> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Dave T=C3=A4ht <dave@taht.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 12/13/16 4:58 PM, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I love the WNDR3800 platform, it's been great over the years first with
> > > cerowrt and then openwrt. Of the many I've deployed I have only had
> > > hardware problems with 2 of them, and usually uptimes go over 100 days.
> > You
> > > can also still buy them used for $20 w/free shipping on amazon!
> > >
> > > With the recent improvement for cake,  make-wifi-fast, driver
> > improvements,
> > > etc is there any chance in seeing some of these things land for the
> > > WNDR3800 specifically? It would be really nice if this hardware could
> > > continue to do SQM, etc for some of the faster broadband speeds the cab=
> le
> > > providers are offering (comcast xfinity has 100, 200, 250 plans now) an=
> d
> > > see some of the wifi improvements too.
> >
> > We already support the 3800, although it peaks at 60 mbits of inbound
> > rate shaping. If your primary use case is wifi, with the latest fq_codel
> > code, you can live without inbound shaping and probably get 150mbits
> > well managed.


Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
matt@lackof.org