Archer C50 v4 Mac80211 Loses Internet Access after 20'+ Away from Router But Maintains Connection

@darkmaxx1 You mind building 19.07.5 with drautmann patch for the rest of us, when you haver a chance?

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I've flashed 19.07.5 and the router is not restarting when clients more than 12 , but the signal for 2.4Ghz is still poor. :pensive:

Hello! I've rebuilded v19.07.5 with the dtrautmann patch above here. You can try it out for yourself!

Wow, okay, I will check it now.

Thank you.

Flashed but I got this issue when I'm trying to install packages.

The installed version of package kernel is not compatible, require 4.14.209-1-d92769dcā€¦ while 4.14.209-1-369232b7ā€¦ is installed.

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Kindly, could you keep the same kernel version when you rebuild it?

More information here: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.5/targets/ramips/mt76x8/openwrt-19.07.5-ramips-mt76x8.manifest

Ah, this is a problem when you self-compiled your images (as described here: https://openwrt.org/faq/cannot_satisfy_dependencies). I'll guess it's either the firmware is built with your needed packages, or some other ways...

darkmaxx1

he built with this patch and packages are installing fine, but the problem with this version 19.07.4

How-to-compile | but don't need to exclude luci, i think :wink:

Config: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.5/targets/ramips/mt76x8/config.buildinfo

Alright, I've recompiled OpenWRT per the instructions, and it appears to be OK. Screenshot_2020-12-16 OpenWrt home - Software - LuCI
I've reuploaded the firmware to https://github.com/tk-nguyen/openwrt/releases/tag/v19.07.5. Thank you!

EDIT: It appears the 5Ghz Wi-Fi does not work. Will have to investigate...

EDIT 2: Looks like I fixed the problem by not touching any compilation flags :sweat_smile:

Okay, I'll check it tomorrow and let you know.

Thanks.

Hello,

kindly, could you check parameters for 5Ghz because it's not working and no associated?
Your last build:
-2.4Ghz is looks good
-but 5Ghz is not working
-Packages from repo are installing properly

1-st it's okay build
2-nd it's your last build

Just only now I saw your update

EDIT: It appears the 5Ghz Wi-Fi does not work. Will have to investigate...

Thank you.

I've recompiled the firmware and uploaded to https://github.com/tk-nguyen/openwrt/releases/tag/v19.07.5 again. Let me know if there's any problem.

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Now it's looking good.
Am going to check how it will work with clients.

Thanks.

You asked so I uploaded my bin :slight_smile:
Here my current build:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApO7cZgI36BfjhANKFes9agxZBEk?e=dHx7zY

OpenWrt 19.07.5 / luci / luci-ssl / drautmann's 442 patch.

I saw tk-nguyen's compiled his bin also, I won't post another build as it is a bit useless if everyone upload and share his own build.

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It's okay.
If you will build this bin next time then we will use it :slight_smile:

Anyway thanks for both

The MT76 driver was updated at https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/b837534f029da10abbd1069392867e0700134ace

Today I installed the latest snapshot for the Archer C50 and so far so good, I got a big improvement in the speed test from the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi.

Unrelated note: On the latest release the 5 GHz radio was capped at 17 dBm transmit power, on another snapshot before the driver update (don't remember the revision) it was capped at 20 dBm, now on the latest snapshot I can select up to 22 dBm. At least that is what is LuCI showing.

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Hello everybody,

I make use of multiple Archer C50v4 devices in my network, and currently want to upgrade from 19.07.4 to .5.
One thing that holds me back at this moment is the fact that I notice that there are still custom builds in this topic.
What is the reason for these custom builds, and why is the DTrautman patch still applied, while this patch has been upstreamed as well?

They commited the fix on the master (development) branch, not in 19.07.5.
If you use snapshot, it will contain the fix.

That's why you see 19.07.5's builds with drautmann's patch.

Indeed I already found out. I submitted a pull request for the 19.07 branch as well.
Now just waiting for somebody to approve the commit.

it works 2.4 + 5 ghz both are good
sqm installed
all great i wish if you could make one with sqm / upnp / relayed installed it will be great
thank you for your work :heart: