How good will a c7 v5 run on openwrt with and without sqm?(in terms of speeds)
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Just guessing but I think with SQM it tops out around 200-300Mbps when using software flow offloading...
I think the RPi4 + your existing A9 as an AP would be your best bet by far
I've had a couple Archer C7's in the past running OpenWrt. Also had a Trendnet 824 (same SoC as C7) running dd-wrt at one time. SQM topped out somewhere near ~135 Mbps on these devices.
SQM on my Edgerouter X (880 MHz dual core MT7621) tops out just under 200 Mbps.
According to the techdata, the archer c7 v5 has a QCA9563 running at 750 MHz.
There is a benchmark result for a QCA9563 at 775 Mhz.
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"Gaming" router? What does classify a router as "gaming"?
I'm also interested in this question, but probably the capability of handling SQM at a given speed, also the ability to install MUDFISH would push the router into the 'gaming territory'
@dana44 When you were talking about having random ping spikes with ath10k that you never noticed with the mt76, here you were referring to the processing power of the platform and how far it's capable of handling SQM, right?
How good is an Archer A9 compared to C7 when both are on stock firmwares?
And does beamforming on the archer a9 a gimmick or does it really make a difference?
AQM needs move into the wifi stack, like in the case of Linux's ath9k, ath1K and I believe mt76 wifi drivers
Yes, mt76 got it before ath10k nearly a year ago https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.5#Networking-1
I'm very much looking forward to a release of OpenWrt 20.x stable enough to test with.
When I said odd ping spikes I mean for no reason I can see some stations just randomly get a high ping. When I tried to do a multiplayer game the ping was usually low, as one would expect from experiences playing alone. SQM was enabled, but it shouldn't have mattered as the connection was otherwise idle. However the ping would sometimes jump from 50ms to hundreds, for just one station. Very odd, isn't it?
Now that I think more about it I suspect it is due to multiple stations active. Last night we tried to download a patch for a game and one station basically was kicked off and couldn't even get the initial 250MB patch! The transfer rate fell to a few KB/sec or maybe zero. I just tried now, with basically every other device idle, and had a decent ~40mbit transfer rate.
After a few tries we just gave up on that game last night and played a round of Overwatch 100% fine instead.
I find the ath10k device is fine nearly all the time, but every so often it seems to have exceptionally poor wifi.
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