I'll try it later today, I have it configured as dumb AP, so can't test WAN speed right now.
Installed yesterday, works like a charm so far. Great successor for my Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H which died after 15years. Pppoe (vlan) in germany. Newest stock firmware wasnt even resolving local dns properly, wifi was worse than my old boy. Now it reaches easily to the cellar. Just skipped the compile hassle and took the automatic builds from https://github.com/ns2switch/ipq807x-openwrt-builder mentioned here. Bought you two coffees, keep up the good work.
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Qos script still using iptables. I suppose you will have a package not totally ported to nftables.
Took a look at your fork and this line got my attention:
echo 'CONFIG_TARGET_UBIFS_FREE_SPACE_FIXUP=y' >> .config
What does this line do, exactly?
Edit: OK, I think I found an explanation, and it has nothing to do with the "free space" we see and can use to install packages.
5ghz network not comming up even after 30+min, using channel 64 and 160mhz. Does country set affect support for 160mhz? I was using Panama as it offers higher db power for both 2.4 and 5ghz networks...
here on AX6 Channel 36 with CN (Country) with 160 Mhz works fine after config in 1 minute signal is present.
i install de @dimfish version firmware for AX6
is working so well at 5ghz that I can get the maximum speed of my ISP on my equipment.
That worked fine, seems each country has also restrictions for the channels and width not only power.
Well, yeah, each country regulates the frequency spectrum as they wish.
Some countries dont even allow 160MHz
Thanks man
but sadly my AX3600 got bricked for some reason (Only show orange light)
I decided to returned it.
And it’s out of stock in my country
Look like i have to find another router
btw thanks for your help again
How does the ax3600 compare with the redmi ax6s/3200 ? (In terms of range/throughput) will I have any issues if I pair an redmi 3200 with my xiaomi ax3600 in a mesh network?
When I attempted 3/31 build upgrade using both LuCI and sysupgrade it would fail, but THANKS @slh for the suggestion to disable WiFi and do it! WORKED
It should be faster, at least in theory
Some LAN<->WAN iperf3 tests, made with 2 intel gigabit computers, running last linux mint in usb pens.
Only had time to test some of the options, so in all the bellow tests, Routing/NAT Offloading options were:
Software flow offloading = ENABLE (Didn't tried Disable).
Hardware flow offloading = DISABLE (Didn't tried Enable).
I made different test with:
Packet Stearing Enable/Disable (Had to reboot after changing Enable or Disable to take effect).
Made big speed difference only when iperf3 --bidir switch was used.
Irqbalance Enable/Disable (I could not see any noticable difference with Enabled or Disabled).
Test #1:
Packet Stearing Enable; irqbalance Enable
See iperf3 --bidir option takes 100% of one core, but speed always ~930Mbits.
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**iperf3 -c 192.168.0.110 -t 30**
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.27 GBytes 935 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.26 GBytes 934 Mbits/sec receiver
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0[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 58.9%] Tasks: 25, 9 thr, 78 kthr; 1 running
1[||| 4.9%] Load average: 0.31 0.10 0.03
2[| 0.7%] Uptime: 05:42:08
3[|| 1.3%]
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 154M/408M]
Swp[ 0K/0K]
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU%-MEM% TIME+ Command
11309 root 20 0 2284 2008 1112 R 1.8 0.5 0:25.16 htop
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 3:53.90 ksoftirqd/0
11300 root 20 0 1064 732 660 S 0.9 0.2 0:00.75 /usr/sbin/dropbear -F -P /var/run/dropbear.1.pid -p 192.
1 root 20 0 1664 1120 864 S 0.0 0.3 0:01.58 /sbin/procd
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**iperf3 -c 192.168.0.110 --bidir -t 30**
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[ ID][Role] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5][TX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 931 Mbits/sec 123 sender
[ 5][TX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 930 Mbits/sec receiver
[ 7][RX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 931 Mbits/sec 112 sender
[ 7][RX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 930 Mbits/sec receiver
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0[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||99.2%] Tasks: 25, 9 thr, 78 kthr; 2 running
1[|||||||||| 18.5%] Load average: 0.01 0.04 0.00
2[ 0.0%] Uptime: 05:48:35
3[| 1.4%]
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 155M/408M]
Swp[ 0K/0K]
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU%-MEM% TIME+ Command
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 81.8 0.0 4:24.54 ksoftirqd/0
16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.8 0.0 0:01.05 ksoftirqd/1
11309 root 20 0 2284 2008 1112 R 1.8 0.5 0:30.01 htop
11300 root 20 0 1064 732 660 S 0.9 0.2 0:00.90 /usr/sbin/dropbear -F -P /var/run/dropbear.1.pid -p 192.
1 root 20 0 1664 1120 864 S 0.0 0.3 0:01.58 /sbin/procd
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**cat /proc/interrupts**
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
11: 390582 199648 366107 185775 GIC-0 20 Level arch_timer
13: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 39 Level arch_mem_timer
16: 2 0 0 0 GIC-0 354 Edge smp2p
17: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 216 Level 4a9000.thermal-sensor
18: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 239 Level bam_dma
21: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 270 Level bam_dma
22: 6 0 0 0 GIC-0 340 Level msm_serial0
23: 45752 0 0 0 GIC-0 178 Level bam_dma
24: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 35 Edge wdt_bark
25: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 357 Edge q6v5 wdog
29: 5 0 0 0 GIC-0 348 Edge ce0
30: 65855 0 0 0 GIC-0 347 Edge ce1
31: 17163 0 0 0 GIC-0 346 Edge ce2
32: 1047 0 0 0 GIC-0 343 Edge ce3
34: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 443 Edge ce5
36: 1204 0 0 0 GIC-0 72 Edge ce7
38: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 334 Edge ce9
39: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 333 Edge ce10
40: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 69 Edge ce11
47: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 323 Edge reo2ost-exception
48: 157 0 0 0 GIC-0 322 Edge wbm2host-rx-release
49: 28 0 0 0 GIC-0 321 Edge reo2host-status
50: 1717 0 0 0 GIC-0 320 Edge reo2host-destination-ring4
51: 13414 0 0 0 GIC-0 271 Edge reo2host-destination-ring3
52: 14596 0 0 0 GIC-0 268 Edge reo2host-destination-ring2
53: 908 0 0 0 GIC-0 267 Edge reo2host-destination-ring1
57: 1350 0 0 0 GIC-0 263 Edge ppdu-end-interrupts-mac3
58: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 262 Edge ppdu-end-interrupts-mac2
59: 44944 0 0 0 GIC-0 261 Edge ppdu-end-interrupts-mac1
60: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 260 Edge rxdma2host-monitor-status-ring-mac3
61: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 256 Edge rxdma2host-monitor-status-ring-mac2
62: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 255 Edge rxdma2host-monitor-status-ring-mac1
63: 3 0 0 0 GIC-0 235 Edge host2rxdma-host-buf-ring-mac3
64: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 215 Edge host2rxdma-host-buf-ring-mac2
65: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 212 Edge host2rxdma-host-buf-ring-mac1
66: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 211 Edge rxdma2host-destination-ring-mac3
67: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 210 Edge rxdma2host-destination-ring-mac2
68: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 209 Edge rxdma2host-destination-ring-mac1
73: 10138 0 0 0 GIC-0 191 Edge wbm2host-tx-completions-ring3
74: 5377 0 0 0 GIC-0 190 Edge wbm2host-tx-completions-ring2
75: 15792 0 0 0 GIC-0 189 Edge wbm2host-tx-completions-ring1
77: 11836166 0 0 0 GIC-0 377 Level edma_txcmpl
78: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 385 Level edma_rxfill
79: 17602596 0 0 0 GIC-0 393 Level edma_rxdesc
80: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 376 Level edma_misc
81: 0 0 0 0 MSI 0 Edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
82: 0 0 0 0 smp2p 0 Edge q6v5 fatal
83: 1 0 0 0 smp2p 1 Edge q6v5 ready
84: 0 0 0 0 smp2p 2 Edge q6v5 handover
85: 0 0 0 0 smp2p 3 Edge q6v5 stop
86: 0 0 0 0 msmgpio 34 Edge keys
87: 31 0 0 0 MSI 524288 Edge ath10k_pci
88: 63 0 0 0 GIC-0 353 Edge glink-native
IPI0: 98593 159529 149809 144011 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 5707 7876083 2946458 3798672 Function call interrupts
IPI2: 0 0 0 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI3: 0 0 0 0 CPU stop (for crash dump) interrupts
IPI4: 0 0 0 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI5: 4849 176 243 218 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 0 0 0 CPU wake-up interrupts
Err: 0
Test #2:
Packet Stearing Enable; irqbalance Disable
See iperf3 --bidir option takes 100% of one core, but speed always ~930Mbits.
I couldn't see difference from test#1.
EDIT: Looking again at --bidir tests, here ksoftirqd/0 uses 107% core0 and in test#1 it only shows ~80%.
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root@X2:~# service irqbalance status
inactive
**iperf3 -c 192.168.0.110 --bidir -t 30**
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[ ID][Role] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5][TX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 931 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5][TX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 930 Mbits/sec receiver
[ 7][RX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.26 GBytes 932 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 7][RX-C] 0.00-30.00 sec 3.25 GBytes 931 Mbits/sec receiver
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0[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 24, 8 thr, 78 kthr; 2 running
1[|| 1.9%] Load average: 0.67 0.25 0.09
2[||||||| 13.1%] Uptime: 00:14:28
3[| 0.7%]
Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||| 126M/408M]
Swp[ 0K/0K]
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU%-MEM% TIME+ Command
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 107. 0.0 1:56.26 ksoftirqd/0
66 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.7 0.0 0:00.05 kworker/u8:2-events_power_efficient
3475 root 20 0 1064 740 668 S 0.7 0.2 0:00.37 /usr/sbin/dropbear -F -P /var/run/dropbear.1.pid -p 192.
3535 root 20 0 2068 1768 1080 R 0.7 0.4 0:04.09 htop
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root@X2:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
11: 32558 35175 45261 21368 GIC-0 20 Level arch_timer
13: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 39 Level arch_mem_timer
16: 2 0 0 0 GIC-0 354 Edge smp2p
17: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 216 Level 4a9000.thermal-sensor
18: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 239 Level bam_dma
21: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 270 Level bam_dma
22: 4 0 0 0 GIC-0 340 Level msm_serial0
23: 42231 0 0 0 GIC-0 178 Level bam_dma
24: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 35 Edge wdt_bark
25: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 357 Edge q6v5 wdog
29: 5 0 0 0 GIC-0 348 Edge ce0
30: 6 0 0 0 GIC-0 347 Edge ce1
31: 10 0 0 0 GIC-0 346 Edge ce2
32: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 343 Edge ce3
34: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 443 Edge ce5
36: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 72 Edge ce7
38: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 334 Edge ce9
39: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 333 Edge ce10
40: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 69 Edge ce11
47: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 323 Edge reo2ost-exception
48: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 322 Edge wbm2host-rx-release
49: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 321 Edge reo2host-status
50: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 320 Edge reo2host-destination-ring4
51: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 271 Edge reo2host-destination-ring3
52: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 268 Edge reo2host-destination-ring2
53: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 267 Edge reo2host-destination-ring1
57: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 263 Edge ppdu-end-interrupts-mac3
58: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 262 Edge ppdu-end-interrupts-mac2
59: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 261 Edge ppdu-end-interrupts-mac1
60: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 260 Edge rxdma2host-monitor-status-ring-mac3
61: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 256 Edge rxdma2host-monitor-status-ring-mac2
62: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 255 Edge rxdma2host-monitor-status-ring-mac1
63: 3 0 0 0 GIC-0 235 Edge host2rxdma-host-buf-ring-mac3
64: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 215 Edge host2rxdma-host-buf-ring-mac2
65: 1 0 0 0 GIC-0 212 Edge host2rxdma-host-buf-ring-mac1
66: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 211 Edge rxdma2host-destination-ring-mac3
67: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 210 Edge rxdma2host-destination-ring-mac2
68: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 209 Edge rxdma2host-destination-ring-mac1
73: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 191 Edge wbm2host-tx-completions-ring3
74: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 190 Edge wbm2host-tx-completions-ring2
75: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 189 Edge wbm2host-tx-completions-ring1
77: 8544235 0 0 0 GIC-0 377 Level edma_txcmpl
78: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 385 Level edma_rxfill
79: 15310377 0 0 0 GIC-0 393 Level edma_rxdesc
80: 0 0 0 0 GIC-0 376 Level edma_misc
81: 0 0 0 0 MSI 0 Edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
82: 0 0 0 0 smp2p 0 Edge q6v5 fatal
83: 1 0 0 0 smp2p 1 Edge q6v5 ready
84: 0 0 0 0 smp2p 2 Edge q6v5 handover
85: 0 0 0 0 smp2p 3 Edge q6v5 stop
86: 0 0 0 0 msmgpio 34 Edge keys
87: 31 0 0 0 MSI 524288 Edge ath10k_pci
88: 63 0 0 0 GIC-0 353 Edge glink-native
IPI0: 11404 15697 17646 18826 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 746 3840260 6381339 1314527 Function call interrupts
IPI2: 0 0 0 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI3: 0 0 0 0 CPU stop (for crash dump) interrupts
IPI4: 0 0 0 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI5: 221 59 68 72 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 0 0 0 CPU wake-up interrupts
Err: 0
Test#3:
Packet Stearing Disable; irqbalance Disable
iperf3 --bidir option takes 100% of one core,
but now with Packet Stearing off, speed is not ~930Mbits.
I rebooted after disabling Packet Stearing and tested this 3 times, always same speeds.
mint@mint:~$ iperf3 -c 192.168.0.110 --bidir -t 60
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[ ID][Role] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5][TX-C] 0.00-60.00 sec 6.46 GBytes 925 Mbits/sec 118 sender
[ 5][TX-C] 0.00-60.00 sec 6.46 GBytes 924 Mbits/sec receiver
[ 7][RX-C] 0.00-60.00 sec 3.11 GBytes 445 Mbits/sec 762 sender
[ 7][RX-C] 0.00-60.00 sec 3.10 GBytes 444 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
Regarding the retries, I tried with several cables and kept a CAT6 2 meters cable.
In bidir test sometimes there are retries other times there are none, with same cable.
Note: Didn't test WIFI<->WAN because I don't have a fast card, I'm waiting for ax210 do be delivered.
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Thank you for your tests and your time.
Looks good, however I can't explain why there is such a big difference. My provider provides 1 Gigabit, with an ASUS router I reach the speed without problems, unfortunately not with the AX3600.
However SW offloading and packet steering is enabled. No idea what else I can check.
Maybe you tested with WIFI?
That would do further and different single core load and could limit speed.
Do you have DHCP in WAN?
No. Tested with my main system (wired).
Yes, I’m using DHCP in WAN.
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where can i find the firmware ? is this link not acutel ?
Releases are now tagged by date so that older ones are preserved, thus the latest tag is not used
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@robimarko @bitthief In fact, I did some nss-cfi test in the kernel 5.4. Seems that nss-cfi is not fast if the data to be handled by NSS is not large. My test case is VPN in the kernel space whose packet size is about 1400-1500 bytes.
That is kind in line with what @quarky stated, cause the context switching between the kernel and userspace is costly.
Which VPN in kernel space are you referring to?