GL.iNET Flint 2 (GL-MT6000) discussions

mihaibuba · 2024-01-13T16:23:26.485Z

What's the point of having 2.5G WAN for this router?

2 x 2.5G Ports; 4 x 1G Ports
1 x WAN (2.5G), 1 x WAN/LAN (2.5G), 4 x LAN

If upgrading the internal network to 2.5 GbE is just getting started for most people, I can imagine it will take a even longer time for ISPs to provide 2.5G internet.
Wouldn't this have been a lot more useful to have and have one or two of the 1GbE for WAN. Can this be configured in OpenWRT?

1 x WAN (1G), 1 x WAN/LAN (1GbE)
2x2.5 GbE, 2x1GbE LAN

nomad101 · 2024-01-13T21:51:49.027Z

Hi, I've recently got hold of a Flint 2.

I'm new to openwrt and wondering at this point is it best to stick with the oem software, until there's a stable openwrt release for the router? I'm a noob when it comes to routers and would need it not to be crashing, as the rest of the family won't be pleased.

Else, I'm wondering whether I should just keep it boxed, and wait until the stable release - are we talking about weeks, or a couple of months, or many months wait? (Sorry, I know asking about software releases is annoying!).

Or if I were to install a snapshot, would I need to reconfigure everything again when installing an updated snapshot, and is that the case when installing a stable release after a snapshot?

Thanks

Ziyan · 2024-01-13T21:59:52.348Z

Above 1 Gbit internet isn't actually that rare in Europe. And if your ONT has a 2.5 GbE port (mine from 2019 does), then even with an 1000 Mbit connection, it'll be slightly faster (due to the protocol overhead limiting it on the 1 GbE port to ~900-950 Mbps).

Here in Hungary, we have 2000/1000 Mbit offers for ~18 EUR. I'm strongly considering upgrading my 1000/1000 connection, I just got the Flint 2 (retiring my trusty R7800), so I could actually make some use of it.
I wonder if it can handle 2000 Mbits (without SQM) on OpenWrt?

rygle · 2024-01-14T02:01:45.350Z

nomad101:

I'm new to openwrt and wondering at this point is it best to stick with the oem software, until there's a stable openwrt release for the router? I'm a noob when it comes to routers and would need it not to be crashing, as the rest of the family won't be pleased.

Mine is happily running as the main router for the family on Snapshot software. They are blissfully unaware that I changed from a Netgear Wax206 as I set the SSID and password the same. That router also ran snapshots for months with no issue except when I fiddled with settings.

jbrossard · 2024-01-14T14:00:30.687Z

mihaibuba:

If upgrading the internal network to 2.5 GbE is just getting started for most people, I can imagine it will take a even longer time for ISPs to provide 2.5G internet.

Ziply already has 2.5 GbE, along with 5, 10 and 50 GbE available at my address.

hnyman · 2024-01-14T18:09:18.994Z

phinn:

this target will do 800Mbits +0/+0 with fq_codel, but is inconsistent

phinn:

didn't see +0/+0 consistently with cake until I dropped it to around 500 Mbps or so, that's why I switched to fq_codel and see solid consistency at 800 Mbps or even a little higher (although the algorithm is less useful at maintaining perfect +0/+0 it's good enough).

I have a 600/200 fiber-to-the-building connection, and did some testing with flent: comparing simple-fq_codel and cake (layercake or piece-of-cake, with different link-layer adjustments).

The results were similar as with my earlier routers: with 600/200, I seem to achieve a lower latency and even higher speeds with simple fq_codel than with either cake qdisc.

Practical limits in SQM have been 550 Mbit down, 190 Mbit up. Bufferbloat test gives easily A+ (+1 / +1 ms) with simple fq_codel.

None of the qdiscs seemed to choke the CPU, (irqbalance had balanced CPU cores), utilization. CPU cores had max 30-50% utilization in LuCI statistics.

Flent summary charts below, 1x simple, 2x pieceofcake, 3x layercake.
(note: flent charts show 1/4 of speed, as it is the average of 4 different traffic classes)

Simple had 18 ms latency and higher download speed (~530 Mbit), while cake had 25-30 ms average latency and lower download speed (~430-450Mbit). Simultaneous upload was ~170-180 Mbit with all of them, meaning combined down+up 600-700 Mbit/s traffic.

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Reznale · 2024-01-14T20:24:34.777Z

If I'm standing next to the router with my laptop connected by 2.4gbps 160mhz AX, I'm able to write to the usb samba share at 140-145mb/s, and that's writing to a NTFS share! I guess a 2.5gbe adapter for my desktop will be useful for USB share after all, it seems the router isn't a bottleneck.

solidus1983 · 2024-01-14T22:59:29.132Z

Yep Flint 2 replaced my Netgear WAX206 both was using snapshot builds though both have been great.

However the Flint 2 is now my main network as i use 2.5Gbe systems in my network server wise. Then i use my Netgear WAX 206 in Wireless Bridge so that i can connect device in my room via ethernet then use WiFi to get to the main network.

LUCI shows good speeds as well for the WAX206

1441.3 Mbit/s, 80 MHz, HE-MCS 7, HE-NSS 4
1620.9 Mbit/s, 80 MHz, HE-MCS 10, HE-NSS 3

maurer · 2024-01-15T07:46:51.217Z

ofw is capable of those advertised 900mbps wireguard perf - if that matters to anyone

Kinfolk3106 · 2024-01-16T01:57:52.412Z

Hello!
In the original firmware, v4.5.2, users complain about reduced speed on the 2.4 Ghz network and frequent Wifi disconnection. Do these issues continue in the latest OpenWRT snapshot?

Does anyone achieve speeds over 100mbps on 2.4Ghz?

Reznale · 2024-01-16T07:23:41.212Z

I had wifi drops on 4.5.4 and 4.5.5. on openwrt snapshot both 5ghz and 2.4ghz have been stable so far. I just tested and was able to achieve 180mbps / 20mb/s transfer rate on 2.4ghz band 20mhz width. Snapshot seems much more stable.

Jack007 · 2024-01-16T08:13:02.800Z

What snapshot do you use?
The latest versions I tried (around r24801 trough r24813) wireless was disabled and couldn't be activated.

Reznale · 2024-01-16T08:26:58.257Z

I'm using r24801 with a fresh configuration

Jack007 · 2024-01-16T08:49:38.462Z

Strange.....
@vw-owrt and me ended up with non functional wifi by updating to r24801.
@rygle reported he started with a fresh install and working wifi (as do you)

Why does updating (attendedsysupgrade/auc) to >r248xx result in non functional wifi and start from scratch not? Is some package missing?

rygle:

vw-owrt:

Interested in knowing if SNAPSHOT r24801 breaks wireless APs for anyone else. I updated with auc today and could not enable the wireless APs. The mesh configuration stayed working.

I had to revert to r24793 to get the APs working again.

I did a fresh install (i.e. reset the settings) from Snapshot r24801 today and had no problems with wireless.

pesa1234 · 2024-01-16T09:51:01.311Z

Do you think that is working correctly irqbalance on MT6000? I don't think it gives an improvement, this is my sensation

NinjaBreaker · 2024-01-16T10:29:44.810Z

What you and others are experiencing is a SNAPSHOT general problem, see this "revert" from @nbd

github.com/oxavelar/openwrt

Revert "mac80211: rework interface setup, fix race condition"

committed 10:19AM - 13 Jan 24 UTC

nbd168

+92 -74

This reverts commit b7f9742da82fa9b122e8d63e48a9a5c0dec298f2. There are several …reports of regressions with this commit. Will be added back once I've figured out and fixed the cause Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

I have more devices hit by this, I myself just had to flash them with something earlier (such as r24722-443e3bd1c6), or a self-compile with r24986

rygle · 2024-01-16T12:03:12.220Z

I downloaded a sysupgrade of r24801, reset and manually reinstalled my packages because I couldn't get Luci attended sysupgrade or the firmware selector to give me anything later than r247xx (can't remember the exact number). A lot of people were complaining last week about that.

I did the full reset partly because I messed up some Tailscale stuff.

Just recently (before the reset though) I've only been using the mt6000 as a dumb access point with my wax206 as the master. Maybe that explains having no problems??

The mt6000 is still doing the bulk of the WiFi and running irqbalance but the wax206 is doing the edge router, dhcp, firewall, sqm stuff.

oli · 2024-01-16T16:33:41.018Z

r24833-d6beb56576 created with https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/ puts GL-MT into bricking mode, I managed to come back with uBoot

hnyman · 2024-01-16T16:53:42.047Z

oli:

r24833-d6beb56576 created with https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/ puts GL-MT into bricking mode

That is interesting, because I built and flashed r24828-95157dde04 yesterday, and between that and your version are only unrelated commits. None of them should affect MT6000: kernel 6.1 vs. 5.15 for MT6000, ipq806x or ipq40xx vs mediatek.

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oli · 2024-01-16T17:38:49.664Z

storage.rcs-rds.ro

r24833-d6beb56576

Shared folder r24833-d6beb56576

who wants can try, I didn't keep the settings, the white LED remained light on intermittently after the image was loaded, the router stopped responding to 192.168.1.1, it had another ip with 162 when I checked in CMD ipconfig

when I upgrade, I leave a ping each time and wait for 5 minutes until the writing is finished..

the images were checked by sha256sum and they were fine