First of all, thanks a lot of the amazing work and effort for adding openwrt support to ax3600 router.
I am quite new to openwrt, I tried to find online but didn't get to any conclusion.
Does anyone know how to activate the "Network -> Switch" option in luci dashboard?
AX3600 has VLANs support, but I don't have that option.
Not really, ipq807x is not DSA compatible yet - what you see is the QCA driver faking independent network cards, while they are actually on a switch. For the purpose of the old swconfig based 'switch menu', it's (almost) the same story though, there are no swconfig compatible drivers for this hardware either.
I have a problem with dropping clients with the AX3600. Anybody else having these issues? I opened a thread for that problem --> Client drops AX3600 connection . Has anybody some suggestions?
This is a little o/t in this thread, but as a quick reminder: The "Network->Switch" configuration menu was retired in OpenWrt 21. It's all done in "Network->Interfaces" and "Network->Devices" now.
Can anyone comment on the Wifi performance? I've installed this build several times but my 5G connection in a close range never goes beyond 100Mbps. However, the same distance from an stock router yields 400+Mbps. Have anyone tested wireless speeds? Is this expected?
Speed has been measured from WLAN to LAN with iperf3
I use my AX3600 (s plural) as dumb access points with a more capable (x86) router doing all the hard work.
My iperf3 numbers look good, up and down, for what I expect a WPA3 encrypted wireless device to carry across that connection. I expect much less than 20% decrease in performance vs unencrypted, btw.
All of them are far better than 300Mbit/s to the "real" router, all currently at OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r0-49ccb29.
I have no opinion on this device as a single access point or home router.
Hello, i followed your guide and all is good and now i have the 174mb partition, thank you.
From now on, in order to upgrade my device to your latest build should i use the file named sysupgrade am i correct? Thanks
Same as above (but routing involved, Notebook AC connected! acting as iperf3 server; realisticly AC would not give more then ~450-500Mbps max and is not really made for 160MHz even if claimed so, but this does not matter):
In real life esp. the last case is more fluctuating then visible here in this short test. If you change settings to 80MHz you will get slightly better values.
EDIT: Fixed the last chart. Forgot to fix the realtek lan driver for latest kernel.
Well, I don't have speedtest included into my builds. Beside that my internet connection is limited to 250MBit/s (on paper). It gets synchronized with ~280MBit/s. As I do not have bridged my providers modem (not possible) and I do not have pppoe in play the output is pretty straight. Testing fast.com from the router would propably not change the outcome. If you think speedtest from the router would give something interesting just upload the ipk. I'll try it.
What I can tell is that I'm reaching with an AX3200 ~33MB/s (reliable) with my Snapdragon 865 AX Smartphone with a plain download of an iso dvd. For the AX3600 it is ~34MB/s (reliable). So a minor difference.
Anyway I did test Notebook and Smartphone (I didn't mess with the settings! Looking just random). I see those tests just as indicators that things are running at a certain level compared to others. But those speeds from this test are looking wired to me.
EDIT: I have a question: Would the nss build change anything in reagard of performance wifi <--> lan? I would guess so. But I don't know if its worth. fixed it. All fine now.