Archer C7 WAN/LAN throughput decreased 30% since LEDE 17.01

[Amitofo]

Hello,

here are the reference topics for further reading:

State of TP-Link Archer C7v2|v5 in 2023

Do-It-Yourself build recipe: Go to https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=ath79%2Fgeneric&id=tplink_archer-c7-v5 Select custom build Copy & paste the package list ath10k-firmware-qca988x base-files busybox ca-bundle dnsmasq dropbear firewall4 fstools kmod-ath10k kmod-ath9k kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-nft-offload kmod-usb-ledtrig-usbport kmod-usb2 libc libgcc libustream-wolfssl logd mtd netifd nftables odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg ppp ppp-mod-pppoe procd procd-seccom…

Overclocking router devices

so, the max at which QCA9558 in C7 will start was 1200MHz, but at this rate there were frequent crashes, lowered to 1160MHz and measured some NAT throughput.(no clock drift observed) here are the results: 720/600/200 profile ~$ iperf -c 10.42.43.1 -i 1 -t 20 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 10.42.43.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.1.221 port 4…

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