# iw list will tell you everything you need to know about the wireless hardware.
Is wireless lag better on stock?
I'm still testing - But it appears to be better.
Tracking the ping doesn't seem to tell the whole story. I spend a lot of my day dialed into a VM via spice. I can definitely notice there
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I'm runing ver 23.05.5 r24106 and have a problem with 5ghz upper channels. When AX mode enabled and 149-165 channels selected it uses 6E 6ghz band so it's not enabled. But when ax disabled ac enabled it works as expected.
So after quite a bit of testing - Lag seems better on stock
I was never able to hit the iperf3 speeds between mobile & router that I could hit with openwrt, though (I guess there was some settings that must have made this possible but it wasn't immediately obvious)
It was quite nice to not have the LED on all the time.
As I've reverted back to openwrt, so maybe resetting all my packages back to stock may do something
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If you've flashed latest stock firmware, it's possible that your device's bootloader was updated and might cause a bootloop flashing back to OpenWRT.
It was a was definitely pretty odd
I had to reset it LOTS of times. It works now though - Reboot and all.
There was a spot there was every restart it would go red
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Hello everyone! Installed on this router firmware OpenWRT but there is a problem, after rebooting or turning on the router, the Internet does not appear immediately, and within 3 - 12 minutes, what can be? On the standard firmware there are no such problems, the Internet appeared immediately
Got the router, installed OpenWrt. Are there any way I can help with turning off cover and other LEDs or this MR covered them all https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16632?
Blockquote after rebooting or turning on the router, the Internet does not appear immediately, and within 3 - 12 minutes, what can be? On the standard firmware there are no such problems, the Internet appeared immediately
Hello Corason. I know I am late to responding to your post. I just wanted to clarify. Did you think you would have an internet connection straight after flashing OpenWRT?
With that PR (in main) you can turn off all three cover LEDs, yes.
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I'm currently running an R7800 but looking to benefit from WiFi 6. Is packet loss still an issue with the AX6000? And will there be any issues running mwan3?
mwan3 is a software feature, it works the same on every supported device (maximum throughput according to device capabilities).
wifi6 roughly doubles the throughput relative to wifi5, ~700-800 are realistic on close range (2x2 client, HE80).
Thank you for clarifying mwan3 capabilities. I read an earlier post about packet loss. Has this been resolved and is OpenWrt stable on the AX6000?
I can only speak from my experience running the device as a Wi-Fi dumbAP, but I have never come across packet loss since 23.05 stable release.
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The potential packet loss was my main concern when deciding whether to purchase this router, especially since this issue was explicitly discussed at the beginning of this thread...
But I can confidently confirm:
I have never experienced the packet loss issue on my ASUS TUF-AX6000, which has been acting as my main home router for ~6 months on firmware ver. 23.05.4+.
So, it seems that the packet loss issue has been completely fixed in the stable OpenWrt versions.
It was not "packet loss", it was "packet corruption". I am not aware of a commit that might have fixed it, but a workaround exists.
It will be about a year since that stuff was discussed, how time flies.
Looking back it was some problem that got fixed when gro (generic receive offload) was turned off but the actual cause was never understood.
@patrakov In your opinion do you think this packet corruption would effect normal website browsing or uploading files on a browser to say Google Drive? I recently got a OpenWRT router similar to the TUF-AX6000 (dual 2.5 Gbps ports) and now I'm worried that some of my web based uploads to Google Drive might have been corrupted.
I don't have this router.
Regarding your question on whether this would affect normal website browsing or uploads, please note that Google Drive uploads are done via HTTPS. This means that there is a checksumming layer, and any packet corruption will lead to an immediate teardown of the connection. Therefore, there is no way for the files already uploaded to Google Drive to be corrupted. The same applies to normal browsing: HTTPS converts any packet corruption into a disconnection.
There is no reason to believe that this issue affects other routers simply because these routers have dual 2.5 Gbps ports.
I could try and assist in seeing whether the problem still persists if you give me the diagnostic procedures to follow.
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