I have a Flint 2 for a month. I'm trying to sell my Mikrotik wAP ac !
I was running OpenWrt on Mini PCs with an external AP (wAP AC or Mercusys MR80X). The Flint 2 is doing as good as the two older AP did. And it is way faster when I test the network throughput with a recent Mini PC in AX mode using 160 Mhz width (but I use an Ethernet 2.5 Gbps LAN for computers and use WiFI only for spyphones and outdoor cameras).
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Thanks for the awnser I did love mikrotik because of capsman but the lack of good wifi solution for speed is very bad. I have 3 stores building with lot of iot devices and 5 2.4ghz cameras 40iot devices like shelly and stuff I have only 1gb cable network my isp connection is 500mb. I just need vlan for cameras vlan for iot and vlan for guest in wifi on cable I don't need vlan. I want powerfull range on 2.4ghz previous I had 4 devices from mikrotik. I want to make it work with 3 openwrt one main flint 2 and 2 secondary like edup ax1800 u think is a good idea?
Hey all,
I am new to home-networking. I just bought the flint 2 and I'm trying to get 0 buffer bloat and the lowest latency over wifi. I'm not very happy with the latency on stock settings. I've seen people achieve 0 buffer bloat on this discussion. I have a 1gig down DOCISS 3.1 connection. SQM cake doesnt fix the problem (I have hardware acceleration off). Do I need to flash non-OEM software to achieve these results?
Also, when looking into whether WED was turned on or not, the SSH command cat /sys/module/mt7915e/parameters/wed_enable kept returning that the file doesnt exist. Anyone know why?
SQM will fix bufferbloat over wired, I get A+ bufferbloat / A+ quality up to about 900Mbps with Filogic 830: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/sqm
For WiFi, disable WED and adjust AQL to reduce your latency further. No issue with using that command to check WED status.
You will never get 0ms bufferbloat on wifi, use wired for that. With 1Gbit it's less important you may want to just enable HFO and leave it.
But you're not going to receive support here if you are running the OEM firmware you need to install official OpenWrt or go to Gl-inet forums.
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Yes, you can thank me for that one...
I was the one that reached out directly to the GL-Inet team to release their u-boot source...
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WED is disabled by default on the snapshot builds, as is the SFO/HFO..
I know but he mentioned being on OEM fork. If I recall (haven't run Glinet fw since the day I got this 1 year ago) but all of that was on by default in their firmware so that's why I explained it.
Yeah, but the GL-Inet firmware has strong links to the MediaTek BSP...
Looks like ad-guard ran out of memory...
hi Everyone,
i've got this device this sales and this piece of hardware loks promising, hopefully when i setup it as replacement for netgear x4s r7800 or Linksys E8450, i see better results overall, though i'm already satisfied with my previous setup but looking for improvements
just a basic query for a new user
- Does Openwrt snapshots see any improvements in WIFI drivers and firmware than the stock GL ?
- packet steering hinders or improves performance along with SQM setup ? In my setup previously, i always find Packet steering hinders the snapiness
- IRQ balance default enabling normally helps in my prior experiences and is setup in my previous setups, is it same for GL-MT6000, enabling it will distribute evenly? on default settings
Moreover, anything special or recommendations are welcome
Thank you everyone
- No idea, flashed sysupgrade to OpenWrt the day I got mine a year ago and never went back. No interest in their fork but they made some great hardware. Wifi 6 works great here and you can adjust AQL for lower latency if that interests you.
- Packet steering can help with SQM depending on settings. This device can do about 900Mbps with SQM (typical for Filogic 830 targets) with A+ bufferbloat ratings. With HFO you can route 2.5Gbps with zero CPU load, up to you which way you want to go.
- Irqbalance won't do much but I have it enabled. But I run other things like Ksmbd, WiFi with WED disabled for AQL, Docker, etc. and it does spread a few things around.
This is a great device just get it, especially with the sale price. I recommend flashing 24.10.0-rc1 which comes out soon (edit: it's out). It's miles ahead of 23.05.5 including a more up to date mtk and mt76 driver specific to this target.
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I just got mine yesterday. Flashed 23.05 right away before ever connecting to the Internet.
Things I've done
- SQM Cake + DSCP Classify
- Ad block
- AQL 1500-5000
I tested packet steering but it increased my upload Latency to 150 milliseconds.
I was looking at BSS coloring and found that the default value in that patch is :128 but BSS is supposed to be 0-63. Does that mean our BSS coloring is disabled because of incompatible integer value?
What does it consist of?
@castillofrancodamian there is a forum thread dedicated to AQL settings just search. We wrote up some of the results on the doc page.
@ktmakwana interesting point the commit has he_bss_color:128 so never tried other settings.
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Is that feature present in all mt76 drivers?
It's in mt76 drivers but not all devices will support it, the GL-MT6000 does. You can run iw list and see if it's listed in the "Supported extended features" section.
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None of my laptop WiFi adapters support raw wireless packets capture on Wireshark. So for now I'll just wait for experts to weigh in on BSS 128 vs a number below 63. Hopefully it's randomly generated.
On an MR70X it seems so
Supported extended features:
* [ VHT_IBSS ]: VHT-IBSS
* [ RRM ]: RRM
* [ BEACON_RATE_LEGACY ]: legacy beacon rate setting
* [ BEACON_RATE_HT ]: HT beacon rate setting
* [ BEACON_RATE_VHT ]: VHT beacon rate setting
* [ FILS_STA ]: STA FILS (Fast Initial Link Setup)
* [ CQM_RSSI_LIST ]: multiple CQM_RSSI_THOLD records
* [ CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211 ]: control port over nl80211
* [ ACK_SIGNAL_SUPPORT ]: ack signal level support
* [ TXQS ]: FQ-CoDel-enabled intermediate TXQs
* [ SCAN_RANDOM_SN ]: use random sequence numbers in scans
* [ SCAN_MIN_PREQ_CONTENT ]: use probe request with only rate IEs in scans
* [ CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 ]: can safely replace PTK 0 when rekeying
* [ AIRTIME_FAIRNESS ]: airtime fairness scheduling
* [ AQL ]: Airtime Queue Limits (AQL)
* [ CONTROL_PORT_NO_PREAUTH ]: disable pre-auth over nl80211 control port support
* [ DEL_IBSS_STA ]: deletion of IBSS station support
* [ SCAN_FREQ_KHZ ]: scan on kHz frequency support
* [ CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_TX_STATUS ]: tx status for nl80211 control port support
* [ FILS_DISCOVERY ]: FILS discovery frame transmission support
* [ UNSOL_BCAST_PROBE_RESP ]: unsolicated broadcast probe response transmission support
* [ BEACON_RATE_HE ]: HE beacon rate support (AP/mesh)
* [ BSS_COLOR ]: BSS coloring support
* [ POWERED_ADDR_CHANGE ]: can change MAC address while up
he_bss_color is intended to be randomly generated if not manually set. See: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=6c152ce5b0c003099dc1d9076fc3c38d061c1137
Have anyone encounter the following in the logs lately?
daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: integer out of range
It seems to come out from recent mt76 drivers?