Hi *
Long time OpenWrt user, first time forum poster - I'd just like to express my gratitude to all involved and to report my experience.
Thanks to all the great effort by the devs, I too have been able to upgrade from a BT Home Hub 5A to a FRITZ!Box 7530. My ISP is TalkTalk in UK which uses DHCP via VDSL for a 80/20 Mbps connection. My local cabinet is an Infineon one.
I bought a second hand but still sealed "Edition Zen Internet" ISP branded 7530, upgraded the FritzOS to the latest 7.50 before attempting the OpenWrt snapshot install. The only issue I had with the install was a weirdly behaving tftp server on my macbook which refused to send the initfamfs image properly. I resolved this by running a Devuan Linux VM under UTM on the mac, passing through the USB-Ethernet dongle and using tftpd-hpa. Initial IP address for uboot was the 192.168.178.x one.
I run a Wireguard VPN connected to an OpenBSD VM hosted at my favourite provider along with Policy Based Routing, by installing these extra packages on the router: curl, htop, dnsmasq-full, luci-ssl, luci-app-wireguard, luci-app-pbr.
I also set echo 500000 > /sys/bus/cpu/devices/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
as mentioned earlier in the thread which greatly improves the high and variable local ping latency.
I have 'software flow offloading' and 'packet steering' enabled, though I'm currently unsure whether they have much impact.I have also installed irqbalance which works as expected to spread the IRQs across the four CPUs.
Anyway, I'm super happy because it is all working perfectly and a great step up from the venerable BT Home Hub.
:~#ubus call dsl metrics
{
"api_version": "4.23.1",
"firmware_version": "8.13.1.5.0.7",
"chipset": "Lantiq-VRX500",
"driver_version": "1.11.1",
"state": "Showtime with TC-Layer sync",
"state_num": 7,
"up": true,
"uptime": 78194,
"atu_c": {
"vendor_id": [
181,
0,
73,
70,
84,
78,
178,
6
],
"vendor": "Infineon 178.6",
"system_vendor_id": [
69,
67,
.......
],
"annex": "B",
"standard": "G.993.2",
"profile": "17a",
"mode": "G.993.2 (VDSL2, Profile 17a)",
"upstream": {
"vector": false,
"trellis": true,
"bitswap": true,
"retx": false,
"virtual_noise": false,
"interleave_delay": 0,
"data_rate": 20000000,
"latn": 12.200000,
"satn": 12.100000,
"snr": 12.600000,
"actatp": 2.800000,
"attndr": 29821518
},
"downstream": {
"vector": false,
"trellis": true,
"bitswap": true,
"retx": false,
"virtual_noise": false,
"interleave_delay": 0,
"data_rate": 79995000,
"latn": 13.500000,
"satn": 13.600000,
"snr": 6.800000,
"actatp": 2.300000,
"attndr": 83181112
},
"errors": {
"near": {
"es": 15,
"ses": 0,
"loss": 0,
"uas": 31,
"lofs": 0,
"fecs": 126,
"hec": 0,
"ibe": 0,
"crc_p": 43,
"crcp_p": 0,
"cv_p": 275,
"cvp_p": 0
},
"far": {
"es": 64,
"ses": 0,
"loss": 88,
"uas": 31,
"lofs": 0,
"fecs": 313,
"hec": 0,
"ibe": 0,
"crc_p": 0,
"crcp_p": 0,
"cv_p": 0,
"cvp_p": 0
}