Thank you!
I've backed up my settings so tomorrow I'll see if I can push it any further but at least I know now this router can actually handle decent speeds with good latency.
Yes setting the rate/speed to zero disables shaping in that direction. Some people report acceptable bufferbloat on 1Gbps links even without traffic shaping, so will happily shape only on egress. But that really depends on how well your link operates and on your expectancies, your network your rules/policy
Last week I installed a vanilla Release v0.6.2 on my brandnew Belkin RT3200. I got a 1000/50 Vodafone Cable connection (Arris TG344DE as Router) and the Belkin is set up as a DumbAP.
Now that the dust has settled and it seems that the near optimal settings were found:
Could someone give a newbie like me (and maybe ohers) the necessary steps in detail to achieve such speeds on base of a plain v0.6.2?
0.6.2 is the latest UBI installer that modifies the u-boot bootloader and the partition structure. You need to run that once, when you originally install OpenWrt E8450/RT3200 UBI-variant specific bootloader and along it also teh special initramfs recovery instance.
After installing that, you need to use that initramfs instance to install/sysupgrade the normal run-time OpenWrt. That can initially be the sysupgrade image version published by @daniel along with 0.6.2 installer, but can also be any later OpenWrt release or snapshot.
Once you have installed the new bootloader, you can quite normally just sysupdgrade to the newer OpenWrt images, and you are not tied to the 0.6.2. (but the underlying bootloader used in the early bootphase remains the u-boot by 0.6.2)
Because you pointed it out: There is not "official" ubi installer other than daniel's, right? And therefore no other way to convert to ubi from the official repositories, right?
Ok I think I got it.
Will update to the latest snapshot or even better your own image with the mt76 fix from here
and then try my luck reading again through the jungle of this post
That is right.
And as discussed with @daniel two days ago, it is pretty difficult to modify the OpenWrt build system to produce also the UBI installer, so likely it will stay as a separate "un-official" item even after the 22.0x release, even if the UBI sysupgrade release images are "official".
But yeah, the situation is pretty bizarre: the UBI variant makes sense and is the preferred variant for the popular RT3200/E8450, but its installer can't easily be built as an official release item.
So the typical mess everyone willing to "just quickly flash OpenWRT" on his new Belkin has to go through. I have no trouble with that as long as the result outweights the effort. For beginners it's just eh, well...
fast.com tells me my Internet speed is 910Mbps testing from my AX-connected laptop, but my Internet service is only 750Mbps and I don't ever see better than around 800Mbps over WiFi to my LAN servers. Seems like people should be testing using a different site.