First I would like to thank you for taking time to make this Archer C7 v2 optimized build! Appreciated!
I would like to ask for a little help as I am getting terrible wi-fi speeds.
First I was with dd-wrt and the speeds again were very bad not more than 5-6mb/s. I've tried several releases and this was the case every time. That's why I decided to change to LEDE more specifically this build.
After fresh install I've tried several different channels and channel widths, but I cannot get more than 5-6 mb/s on 5Ghz and 2-3mb/s on 2.4Ghz.
@BIGFAT
IIRC the old patch was a script that patched the lede source.
The @dissent1 FE patches can be applied to the LEDE source with the linux patch command, and is a clean procedure.
@DjiPi
I discovered that SQM and FastPath are mutually exclusive after a lot of testing.
If you want to use SQM to reduce bufferbloat just disable FP.
If you want to use FP to increase you network throughput don't enable SQM.
Yes, that's what the link I posted highlights effectively. However, depending on the patch used, it's either the patch or SQM that get prioritized from what I understand from it.
Thanks @r00t for the firmware! I've got it working great on my C7 V2. Looking forward to the next build.
Quick question: I have a PiHole set-up on my network which is also set up as a dnscrypt-proxy client. I would like to disable the dnscrypt client on the router and instead point my DNS queries to the PiHole. Can someone provide some help with doing this? I'm assuming this is more complex than simply deleting the dnscrypt related packages, since dnsmasq was reconfigured as part of the process of incorporating dnscrypt on the router.
What are the advantages to running "Pi-hole" over doing the dns based ad blocking on the router itself via the simple-adblock package already included in this firmware?
@shunjou There are quite a few advantages; logging, much more useful interface, easier import/export of blocklists, updates to the core program. The primary advantage for me personally, however, is that I have an existing, working, fully configured PiHole setup that I would like to continue to use.
firmware-6.bin is not necessary, it doesn't even exist for QCA998x yet, ath10k falls back transparently to firmware-5.bin instead - a symlink is not necessary.
But if I remove it and reboot wlan0 will not come up. I saw only firmware-5 on GitHub and -6 only for 990x I believe. As said, I am a noob, just mentioned it...
it would be very interesting to translate and put in the FW the option of installing the modified U-boot and allowing to do or not overclocking and according to will the user.
So lately my 5G was turning off until I switched it to 20 instead of 40 width and now my internet goes down until I either reconnect "wan" or reboot my router.
Has anyone else been getting this?
LOG
Wed Jan 17 16:02:46 2018 daemon.err uhttpd[2210]: cat: write error: Broken pipe
Wed Jan 17 16:03:05 2018 daemon.notice netifd: wan (1809): udhcpc: received SIGTERM
Wed Jan 17 16:03:05 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now down
Wed Jan 17 16:03:05 2018 kern.info kernel: [57559.720184] eth0: link down
Wed Jan 17 16:03:05 2018 daemon.err miniupnpd[2944]: Failed to get IP for interface eth0
Wed Jan 17 16:03:05 2018 daemon.warn miniupnpd[2944]:
SendNATPMPPublicAddressChangeNotification: cannot get public IP address, stopping
Wed Jan 17 16:03:05 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is disabled
What ashame that a good build like this only works for 1 revision of the same router when v4 is not much different and being widely sold currently.Looks like i'm not the only person looking for a v4 revision.. frustrating.I just bought this router today hoping to use this but seems I cannot.
