Is it just me or is there are problem getting the noise level on the 5GHz radio on latest stable 23.05.2?
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I have four devices connected and all say unknown for noise
-69 dBm / unknown (SNR -69) 10 ms ago
Edit: it works on the 2.4GHz radio
I can confirm this for 23.05.2. Integrated 2.4 GHz WiFi station noise level output works, on MT7915 it’s unknown.
Also with recent snapshot. But not all MT7622/7915 targets. My Reyee RG E5 (also MT7622/7915) reports noise for clients on both radios, but now that you've pointed it out, I notice my RT3200 is only reporting noise for 2.4 GHz clients. Noise is reported as -92 dBm in all cases.
And yeah, I took a chance flashing my RT3200 recently. No reboot issues. I've kept min frequency at 600 MHz since I've been using it FWIW.
@nbd Hello Felix, it seems that in builds using 6.1.72 kernel or later WED is broken. I saw that little change in 650-netfilter-add-xt_FLOWOFFLOAD-target.patch that replaced constr struct with struct but it seems there are other issues as well. Thank you.
Hi, is beamforming enabled by default in 23.05.2 as per documented in the GL-MT6000 wiki page?
The RT3200 wiki page still has instruction for enabling beamforming. I followed it and modified /etc/config/wireless. Not sure if this is still necessary
Updated the wiki with a note that it's enabled by default.
So it’s only necessary to set the color now to avoid x/256 chance of overlap?
The linked commit shows the bss color is set to 128 by default, so would one want to check the local wireless environment to make sure that's not overlapping with another AP?
Also, my understanding is that if one has multiple dumb APs on the same network, each one should have a different color. Is that correct? I currently have my build script picking a random BSS color for each AP to make sure they don't overlap.
It’s random if it’s bigger than 63
Does WED actually work with SQM (fq_codel / simplest.qos)?
Nope since it bypasses a lot of the network stack. That is my understanding of it.
Would people still recommend this even with the recent problems? Can the problems be avoided?
I just recommended an E8450 to a friend; about a week ago I saw it for $79.20 on Amazon. I got mine (an RT3200) for $67 on eBay a year or so ago and have been extremely happy with it, especially for its attractive price/performance value.
The signal strength is a little lower than the WiFi 5 router it replaced, although that one had external antennas and the E8450/RT3200 only has internal ones. Other than that, it's been more than sufficient and at one point it was running uninterrupted (not rebooted) for nearly 60 days. I have been using SNAPSHOT continuously since I first got it. I have 1Gbps down/40Mbps up ISP service, and this device handles it nicely; I experience those full speeds on ethernet. On my WiFi 6-compatible Android phone I can get 600-800Mbps down near the router, and still many hundreds while on different floors of my house.
I have not experienced the recent problems with power-on or reboot issues and honestly whenever I notice something wrong (rarely), a reboot or powercycle fixes it.
Based on my experience over the past year, I would still recommend the E8450/RT3200 in 2024 for anyone with up to a 1Gbps connection and a small/medium size home with an assortment of devices, if it can still be found for under USD$99.
I have 3 Linksys E8450s in active use, and one of them in use for more than 2 years. Running my own master build.
I run all 3 on schedutil scaling governor with min clock speed at default 400+MHz. Running my E8450s at min freq brings down the CPU temp 2 deg C compared to running it at full clock of 1.4GHz. Most of the time my router is running at it's min clock speed.
Have not encountered any reboot issues.
(If I'm in the wrong place to post this just LMK)
I have configured my Belkin RT3200 as a repeater and it works excellently.
However, If I do a software or hardware initiated reboot , it doesnt come back
OpenWrt 23.05.2 r23630-842932a63d / LuCI openwrt-23.05 branch git-24.034.54904-39d1aee
I literally pulled it out of the trash bin after a few hours and I considered giving up on it
trust me, I'm not crazy, have confirmed this several times
If I cool it down, like by putting it in the freezer for 10 minutes
it reboots fine and the latest settings are intact
in this thread I see random references to a reboot problem and changing frequencies.
Can someone guide me? Thanks in advance
I suggest a power cycle instead when it happens. Your router may have booted into fail safe/recovery mode. I turned off booting into recovery mode when u-boot detected a kernel crash. A power cycle will clear pstore contents preventing booting into recovery.
thanks for replying.
power cycling doesnt do anything
on/off and reset are unresponsive.
only thing that brings it back, and it comes back normally, is to wait hours or cool it off.
Wow. Ok.
Looks like your router’s heatsink need to be re-pasted with fresh thermal paste and re-seated properly.
That's sort of my point though. If you have to do obscure stuff (especially something not covered in the wiki) just to get stable operation can it really be considered?
Well, if you are referring to recovery mode, that is by design, and it does not happen all the time, especially for stable releases. It is meant for a user to try to recover from bad configurations that causes continuous kernel crashes. It also happens mostly with master/snapshot builds where we have experimental codes. My E8450s has been running stable even with me running builds from master tree.
If you are referring to my comments on heat sink, well, I put that to manufacturing defects.