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

[Jon Pike]

And let me know what I might do to take more useful data with DSLReports...

On Nov 19, 2016 7:20 PM, "Jon Pike" <jonpike54 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, hosed that first one up pretty good.   Let's see how badly I can do
> this time...
>
>
> Taking it around the block... so far so good on my Archer C7...  ;-)
>
> Chickened out a bit,  didn't try a sysupgrade,  I had been running a
> custom build from Noah and didn't know if that was going to be an issue.
> Also didn't try to save settings, let it clean everything out.
> Installed my most recent settings,  that seemed to work. Someone let me
> know if there could be version issues there I might not have noticed yet.
>
> I'm running on the settings Noah mentioned a while back, cake and piece
> of cake and the below:
> > Simply select cake as the qdisc and a sqm script that uses cake. Under
> > the "Queue Discipline" tab, enable a set of two checkboxes.
> >
> > Under "Advanced option string to pass to the ingress queueing
> > disciplines," put in "dual-dsthost nat"
> >
> > Under "Advanced option string to pass to the egress queueing
> > disciplines," put in "dual-srchost nat"
> >
> > Because of the issues with WMM in the WiFi stack, I recommend using the
> > following custom iptables rules:
> >
> > iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -o br-lan -j DSCP --set-dscp-class be
> > iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -o br-lan -j DSCP --set-dscp-class be
> > ip6tables -t mangle -A FORWARD -o br-lan -j DSCP --set-dscp-class be
> > ip6tables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -o br-lan -j DSCP --set-dscp-class be
> >
> > You still need WMM to get the full speeds on the newer WiFi modes.
> >
> > Noah
>
> I'm a little uncertain of what parts of what are in what state of
> working.  Current setup is 65/6Mbit Cable Modem - C7 - variety of Win
> PC's and other things.  I have a couple of AC1200 usb adapters, a few
> phones are AC as well,  as well as a lot of N devices.   Been trying to
> keep up with what's working with which interface.
>
> I'm getting mostly decent numbers for bufferbloat on DSLreports. Only
> have DSLreports as a test method now, so I'm not much good for decent data.
> My PC to eth connection has next to nothing,  and most of the time the
> wifi looks very good with bloat below 30ms.
>
> I have been seeing an anomaly, though, in that I get a fast startup,
> with very low latency,  download speed in the 50's,  then after 5-10 sec
> the speed drops drastically to the 10's for a few seconds,  then rises
> back up to the 50's again.  I was getting ready to write this up the
> other night,  then trying it again it was gone.  Full, flat speed thru
> the whole test,  over many tries. Tonight,  it's back again.  This was
> on Noah's build, as well as tonight's change to Toke's 11-18 C7 build.
> Not sure what to make of it.  Here's an example URL to DSLreports,  if
> that helps: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6276874
>
> It can do this on 2.4Ghz and on 5Ghz with the AC1200 dongle, believe it
> did it on the N dongle,  will try that shortly.  Also, the game player
> is home from work now... we'll see what his comments are...
>
> Jon
>
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