If anyone feels really adventurous they can try this.
I dont know what this is nor how to use it. Would you give us some direction on how to test/use this?
If you have to ask, you can't do it, yet. It's experimental code and the required (DTS and other) changes aren't part of the draft-PR for all devices, yet (the rt-ax89x isn't covered yet, probably around 15-20% or all ipq807x/ipq60xx/ipq53xx devices so far, the ones where some of its users provided feedback/ patches), so at this point it requires:
- clone the git repo
- apply the draft-PR
- creating the necessary patch(es) to move your device to this new EDMA rework
- build from source
It's not yet in an enduser-ready (~= download prebuilt image and flash) state, nor really in an enthusiast state (~= apply PR and build locally, without having to fill in the gaps yourself).
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Yeah, @slh answered comprehensively.
RT-AX89X is supported although I haven't personally tried this yet, but don't expect better network performance with it.
I know that you donated this unit to the OpenWrt developers and I can imagine how you feel that the vanilla OpenWrt (for apparent reasons) cannot fully accelerate the hardware inside.
The only reasonable to me thing at the moment is, if you really want to try the NSS build for this monstrous hardware, I can offer you (if you want it, and you are not able to compile it yourself) to try my NSS build. And then decide for yourself what to do further.
Thanks.
Ill keep that noted.
the main goal with this router though was this just get this interesting piece of hardware donated mainly in the name of running OpenWRT and dd-wrt. Like I donated it to both these two communities because âtwo heads are better than oneâ.
my personal goal with this router was to get 2gbps of throughput from my USB drives to my computers on my LAN network. ATM, I have a 10gbps lan network i my room.
I am ok with NSS not working just as long as this router is able to achieve download speeds of 2gbps or more.
EDIT: I will still keep trying to donate more hardware like this. the spiritual successors Asus made is disappointing though. instead of using QCA, they use broadcom SoC so thats pretty much a dead end for both OpenWRT and dd-wrt.
the one im talking about is like a broadcom version of the AX89X.
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anyone know how to factory reset this router? I forgot the password and I cant get it. holding the reset button does nothing while its on and even when I try to hold it while powering on the router, I see the power light flashing but the same configuration is there.
been a while but I found the way to fix it. If you are having a hard time entering failsafe mode on the RT-AX89X router, you will need to insert a SFP module into the router and use that port for fail safe mode. no other port but this SFP+ port will work. only the SFP+ port will work with failsafe mode.
in my case, I used a 1g copper ethernet module by mikrotik. after that, I was able to enter via ssh and enter the commands for factory resetting this router which was
mount_root
firstboot -y
reboot
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Have you tried this:
Step-by-Step WPS Reset Procedure:
- Power off: Turn the router off.
- Hold WPS: Press and hold the WPS button.
- Power on: Turn the router on while continuing to hold the WPS button.
- Release: Release the WPS button when the power LED starts flashing.
- Reboot: The router will automatically reboot to factory default settings.
I've used it once in the past.
didnt work for me. I was on 24.10. upgraded to 25.12.
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I just swapped out my WRT3200ACM router with this RT-AX89X router. I have installed the 2.5gbe SFP+ module into the SFP+ port and connectd the cable that goes back to my CRS309 in my room. and the CRS309 is reporting its linking at 2.5gbps at full duplex.
iperf3 only shows 1.13gbps. when running the test again with htop, I get the same results and it does show the CPU Core 3 is only getting pegged at around 50 percent.
I mean i expect it to use one core and all but to be stuck at 1gbps instead of going around 2-3gbps is kind of disappointing.
The WRT3200ACM router I had in place with the Asus 2.5gbps USB NIC was able to do 1.7gbps back to my room in the iperf3 test.
EDIT: did the test again this time connected to the copper interface instead of the SFP+ interface. I am now getting 2.5gbps but the link is showing 10gbps. I feel like the module/port might be unnecessarily pushing itself into trying to achieve 10gbps. setting the speed to 2.5gbps gets me no link on the CRS309.
gonna try looking more into this.
EDIT2: So this is what I got so far.
setting static speed to 1g or 10gbps in the CRS309 is the only speed the the link will work with. however, 1g does not get me internet while 10g does. I then installed the original USB 2.5gbe NIC that was in the WRT3200ACM on the AX89X. it links but im now getting speeds of 1.3gbps.
EDIT3: reversed upgrade. im gonna keep testing this router âin the labâ instead until it proves itself.