802.11ax Routers

I agree with this but I think we have plenty of time to see if other routers come out by the end of the year or even an upgraded Xiaomi router, so I think people should just keep waiting in general until 2021 unless they need a new router right now.

I have used a X18G with openwrt

That is not possible, as neither the Mercury X18G nor 802.11ax in general are supported by OpenWrt yet (the necessary hostapd/ mac80211 patches are sitting in a staging tree). Having an OEM firmware loosely based on OpenWrt is not the same as OpenWrt support, if that were the case, all of the ipq807x, ipq60xx and ipq50xx devices would have been supported already, but they aren't.

Judging from the hardware of the Mercury X18G (mt7621a+mt7915e), it should be supportable (like the TOTOLINK X5000R), but someone will still have to port it over.

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sorry ,but I did it.

Do you mind sharing how ?

firmware?OK
链接:https://pan.baidu.com/s/1pY7zOJ3t0n_qZ1UzCBGZPw
提取码:h8gb
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Unfortunately it is lacking the source code, could you please upload that aswell?

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NO,it's MTK SDK 4.2,maybe you will find it soon.

I think we have to wait for Wifi 6E routers to come out before we see the next generation of AX OpenWRT routers to show up.

This changed with the new version of the U6-LR its now based on MT7622 and MT7915 (firmware analysis)

hint: they use openwrt as base again

Seems there are no openwrt supporting the qualcomm chipset IPQ6018

we don't even have proper support for the bigger brother... ipq6018 can wait

Which brother chipset are you interested in?

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Talking about ipq8074 that is the bigger brother of ipq6018

We are design hardware of IPQ8074. I have a fork of code for IPQ8074 qsdk, you can take a look

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Did you harvest the openwrt mailing list for addresses to send your spam to? I've had no interaction with your company and i received several emails. Terrible business tactic.

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Belkin RT3200 AX3200 and Linksys E8450 AX3200 appear to be clones of each other (they even share basically the same manual), and are available for purchase in the US. (Looking it up just now, didn’t realize Belkin bought Linksys.) The Belkin is even on sale currently for $80.


According to acwifi.net, it’s a MT7622 + MT7915A combo, so decent chance it might be supported by OpenWrt sometime down the line?

Another candidate with MT7621A + MT7905 + MT7975

Edit: And another one with MT7621A + MT7915DA + MT7975DN

Edit 2: This too... Seems like Mediatek 802.11ax routers flooding the market.



From IRC:

05:25 < nbd> i'm currently working on 802.11->802.3 decap offload
05:25 < nbd> will try to take care of that patch afterwards
05:27 < nbd> i will work on that as well
05:27 < nbd> pablo will send our work on NAT offload (with my rewritten driver for MTK) upstream soon
05:28 < nbd> once that's in the tree, i can build on that for eth<->wifi offload
05:29 < nbd> it will be supported for mt7622 on the SoC side and 7915 for wifi
05:29 < nbd> maybe also 7615 later, not sure how much offload that one supports
05:30 < nbd> either way, 7915 will be the first wifi chip to have upstream eth<->wifi offload support
05:30 < nbd> for 1500 byte sized packets, the difference between SW and HW is small
05:31 < nbd> for smaller packets, offload will help
05:31 < nbd> sw performance is currently around 1700-1800 mbit/s under ideal conditions
05:32 < nbd> but still lower when sending to more stations at the same time
05:32 < nbd> not sure how much of that is sw limitation
05:33 < nbd> 4x4 80 MHz
05:33 < nbd> or 2x2 160 MHz
05:35 < rsalvaterra> nbd: You mean encapsulation offloading?
05:36 < nbd> rsalvaterra: nope
05:36 < nbd> encap offload is already done
05:36 < nbd> so i'm working on decap now
05:38 < nbd> the hw supports it, not sure how much of the code for it is upstream
05:38 < nbd> when i worked on the patch, only ath11k had upstream support
08:16 < dengqf6> nbd: Hauke: what about mt7621?
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The Belkin RT3200 is also available in UK. I bought it few weeks ago, but for various reason I will receive it in January.