Archer C7 vs Newifi3 D2

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Neither one is suitable to run SQM at gigabit rates.

My early testing with the Archer C7v2 seems to be limited to ~330 mbps NAT/route only, even with software flow offload. I need to confirm that I enabled s/w flow offload properly. I don’t have a MediaTek MT7621AT to measure. However, you might want to read the related

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X, Loading OpenWrt and performance numbers

Figured I would do a little write up on my adventures with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X and OpenWRT (18.06.1, r7258-5eb055306f). Last Updated 1/10/2019 Back story. This whole process started when I was trying to upgrade from OpenWRT(VM) to something bare metal. The rest of my house is all Ubiquiti Unifi gear, but Ubiquiti's current Unifi Routers (USG) dont fit my needs/cost use case. After much googling and frustration I stumbled across the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X (ERX). I was VERY pleased to fin…

Edit: Looks like s/w flow offload is was broken on master. See further

Flow_offloading=1 is broken on latest snapshot (4.19 issue)

Archer C7 v2, OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r10451-653e05d27f Flow offload seems to be broken on 4.19. root@router:~# lsmod | grep flow nf_conntrack 71817 18 ipt_MASQUERADE,xt_state,xt_nat,xt_conntrack,xt_REDIRECT,xt_CT,nft_redir_ipv4,nft_redir,nft_nat,nft_masq_ipv4,nft_masq,nft_flow_offload,nft_ct,nf_nat_ipv4,nf_nat,nf_flow_table,nf_conntrack_rtcache,nf_conntrack_netlink nf_flow_table 14399 6 xt_FLOWOFFLOAD,nft_flow_offload,nf_flow_table_ipv6,nf_flow_table_ipv4,nf_flow_table_inet,nf_f…

Edit: 2019-10-04 -- Appears to have since been resolved on master. Untested at this time.