I'm trying to turn this thing into a road trip router so I need the combination of a good cpu for wireguard/openvpn and decent wifi. I cant decide if its my copy of the router that is bad, in which case I'll just acquire another one, or if its the router itself. Right now I'm watching iperf bounce up and down (600mbs for a whilte, down to 30 for a second or two, then back up to 500 or so, rinse and repeat) while the phone is in the same room, arggh. I'm thinking its just poor antenna design, unoptimized drivers, or a combination of both so probably not worth wasting more time or money on this particular brand. I would like to know if I should just steer clear of ath11 in general, though. Flint2 w/ mediatek is looking pretty good to me right now.
It was the 160Mhz channel width! Even though the iphone negotiated at 80, that evidently is causing the erratic performance. Switched the AP radio to 80 mhz width and the iphone gets a consistent signal across the house. Odd, that it only affects the iphone and not the other client I tried.
@frollic, how do you have your radios configured?
FWIW, I used 80 Mz channel width with mine. I never experienced instability as bad as you've reported with 160 MHz. Slower, and more variability than RT3200, but still usable. It should make a decent road trip router if you don't push WiFi range too far.
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'platform/soc/c000000.wifi'
option band '5g'
option country 'DE'
option cell_density '0'
option htmode 'HE80'
option channel '48'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option encryption 'psk2'
option key 'even.more.secret'
option ssid 'duck'
option ieee80211r '1'
option mobility_domain 'ffff'
option ft_over_ds '0'
option ft_psk_generate_local '1'
config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'platform/soc/c000000.wifi+1'
option band '2g'
option htmode 'HT40'
option channel '3'
option country 'DE'
option cell_density '0'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'dick'
option encryption 'psk2'
option key 'very.secret'
option ieee80211r '1'
option mobility_domain 'zzzz'
option ft_over_ds '0'
option ft_psk_generate_local '1'
Thanks for that. And I'm assuming you're also not running special ath11 firmware, just what comes out-of-the-box in 23.05.x or something? About how many clients do you have connected?
So far this has been very stable for me after switching to HT80. I'm glad I dusted this thing off again. This router also has a bit more range than my trusty rt3200[s], no doubt due to the superior antennas.
whatever came with the image 
pre stable, it's a snapshot from Feb '23.
the main one probably have 20-30 wireless clients connected on a good day.
the 2nd one 5-10 clients, since it sits in the basement.
most of our data intensive devices have ethernet cables attached to them.
it's now $60 at Amazon
Good to know. Is that with current snapshot or 23.05.5? Might be time to pull mine out of storage and give it another chance.
Yes, I flashed 23.05.5. I get a stable, 200mbps upload from my iphone to the dl-wrx36 at the opposite end of my house while standing in front of a couple of sliding mirrors. Pretty good result for a $60 bargain basement router that can be magically transformed into a useful device with OpenWRT.
I saw some posts earlier in the thread stating that multiple SSIDs on a radio can be problematic. Haven't tried that yet. I've also had to reboot the router once or twice when the radio locked up but that was probably due to switching an interface to monitor mode. It seems stable when left alone, however. Now its nowhere near the stability of mt76 or ath9/10 like in the archer c7 or NG r7800 but its still pretty useful as it is.
One other thing to note, be sure to pin some of the interrupts to specific threads. One of the devs posted a little shell script earlier that does it based on name of the interrupt, rather than the num itself. Use that one as the numbers tend to change.
That's awesome. I can confirm it works but, what about the web gui password?
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EDIT: After reading for hours going through a bunch of non-sense talking and other garbage that was unrelated I found this...
And this worked for me. I was able to login via ssh using that information following the instructions provided here...
https://openwrt.org/toh/dynalink/dl-wrx36
Man, someone should add that CRUCIAL detail to the installation instructions. Can't login to ssh or web gui, or even wifi to access the web gui without all that backup configuration's passwords.
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EDIT:
Web GUI password is askey1234 as well.
It was there before, someone removed it.
Check the history of the page, it's the clock in the upper right corner.
Who removed it? Remove their ability to remove it. Lol. 
You can see it in the history.
It was you? Hahaha.
I already got stuck following the guide.
Change the boot command so it loads the initramfs image on next boot (fallback to OEM firmware is provided):
a. If you are installing 23.05.4 stable, run:# fw_setenv bootcmd 'usb start && fatload usb 0:1 0x44000000 openwrt-23.05.4-ipq807x-generic-dynalink_dl-wrx36-initramfs-uImage.itb && bootm 0x44000000; bootipq' b. If you are installing main snapshot, run: # fw_setenv bootcmd 'usb start && fatload usb 0:1 0x44000000 openwrt-qualcommax-ipq807x-dynalink_dl-wrx36-initramfs-uImage.itb && bootm 0x44000000; bootipq'9.Reboot the device to boot the initramfs:
# reboot
(Here). I did everything, aka 8-b, before that and I am still getting the normal dynalink login and it still has an ip of 192.168.216.1, even after the reboot. So trying again...
Also this part is confusing...
Part 2 - Copy and boot the OpenWrt factory image
The default LAN IP of the booted initramfs is 192.168.1.1. If you're unable to connect to 192.168.1.1, the initramfs boot failed, and the router is still running the Dynalink firmware. WinSCP & scp now default to the SFTP protocol, make sure to tell your application to use the scp protocol. Copy the OpenWrt factory image to the router and store it in /tmp $ scp openwrt-23.05.4-ipq807x-generic-dynalink_dl-wrx36-squashfs-factory.ubi root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/factory_image.ubi Connect to the device over SSH (on a LAN port) $ ssh root@192.168.1.1
How am I copying over files when the files are on the usb on the router and I am no longer in an ssh session? Did I need them on my PC itself that is connected to the router? Totally confused by this part. Anyway I will be posting more in that installation forum for this device. Thanks.
Look for the most recent changes.
Sorry, can't assist you atm, flight is taking off
Ah. have a safe flight man.
Either way it says they added them but in reality they didn't or at least it's not obvious where the credentials are so I am glad I posted them here to make it easier for others having the same problem.
Backup Configuration Passwords:
ssh and web gui: askey1234
SSID for the wifi is Dynalink X, where X = 2.4 G / 5 G
Password for the wifi at that stage is: inventreason697
Hope this helps others.
If anyone is available to help get me uninstall in my installation process I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
You are copying over files via the "scp" command, which connects similar to SSH (and is part of the tool), but used to transfer files.
I added the default passwords you mentioned back to the wiki, put under "Return to Stock" section for now since it's part of the stock firmware/config. edit: and put in Part 0 and cleaned up that whole intro there was so much duplicate language.
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Hi everybody,
my Dynalink WRX-36 router is flashed to version 23.05.5 and is operating as a WiFi 6 access point (80MHz, 5200). Unfortunately, the measured WiFi speed never exceeds 300Mbps, while a neighboring RT3200 easily reaches the provider's limit of 600Mbps. Is this an issue due to the lack of NSS in the firmware? How is the speed performance in the latest snapshots?
My WRX36 can easily reach 60MB/s over AC, should be even faster via AX.
What firmware version are you using? If 23.xx - what settings can affect wirelless speed so much? As I mentioned before, it's Dumb AP, so Firewall service is disabled, as well as DHCP/DNS.