Re: [Make-wifi-fast] Updated LEDE build with airtime patches

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>]

Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> writes:
>>
>>> Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>>>>> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I created an updated build of current LEDE head with added airtime
>>>>>> fairness patches, and the patch to re-enable the intermediate queues for
>>>>>> ath10k. I.e., the contents of my repo here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://kau.toke.dk/git/lede/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Builds for some common ar71xx devices are here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://kau.toke.dk/lede/airtime-fairness-builds/ar71xx/generic/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Toke, I tested with 6 mobile phones connected on a 20 MB/s
>>>> Internet. No crashes so far on ath9k. No pppoe support out of the box
>>>> for the firmware for the WAN interface.
>>>
>>> Cool, thanks :)
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> These builds have now been updated to a new version of the airtime
>>>>> fairness patch (that was also posted to the list a few hours ago).
>>>>> Please take them for a spin. Once I have confirmation that they don't
>>>>> blow up catastrophically, I'll submit the patch for inclusion in LEDE :)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice if we could get firmware images, and also please can
>>>> you ship it with mod-pppoe modules built-in for bridged connections ?
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that I won't have to keep building images for so much longer.
>>> But I'll add pppoe the next time round, sure :)
>>
>>
>> Since the airtime fairness patches haven't been merged yet, here's an
>> updated build, rebased on upstream LEDE head:
>>
>> https://kau.toke.dk/lede/airtime-fairness-builds/ar71xx/generic/
>>
>>
>> Note that the file names have changed. This build should also include
>> the kmod-pppoe package.
>>
>> -Toke
> Thank you.
>
> Tested with 4 mobile phones, while stressed with flent on a linux
> laptop having an ath5k chipset. Pretty good.

Awesome, thanks!

> Btw, I was wondering about replacing the ath5k radio with an ath9k
> card. Any recommendation ?

Anything that fits in your laptop should work. The cards mainly differ
in whether they are dual-band, the connection and form factor, and how
many antennas they use. This is probably a good starting point:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k/products

-Toke