The docs say the install is easy . I am curious about wifi performance vs the stock firmware . I have one of these devices and it works quite well but would like to put openwrt on it . It is connected to an openwrt router .
Yes I. I used this working site https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/eap615-wall TP-Link EAP615-Wall v1 contains information about "Supported Versions", "Main Hardware Specifications", "Installation", "Easy Installation OEM", "Install via serial port. + TFTP" "Configuration" ...
Yes. I installed it on it, and am using it happily in my house
Installation is as simple as it can be and straight forward
So what kind of WIFI throughput are you getting ?
anybody at all read completely read my entire question ?
I tested following with openwrt 22.03.3 during a time when multiple users were using wifi
iPhone 11 tested with with iPerf app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iperf-3-wifi-speed-test/id1462260546 with 5 streams Download
HP Probook 430 G5 Ubuntu 23.04 tested with command $ iperf3 -c 192.168.0.x
I ran tests at two meter distance, with- and without brickwall inbetween
== Accesspoint 5Ghz - width 80Mhz ==
iPhone 11 with brickwall: 335 Mbits/s
Iphone 11 without brickwall: 335 Mbits/s
HP Probook with brickwall
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 361 MBytes 303 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 359 MBytes 301 Mbits/sec receiver
HP Probook without brickwall
ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 448 MBytes 376 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 446 MBytes 374 Mbits/sec receiver
== Accesspoint 5Ghz - width 40Mhz ==
Iphone 11 with brickwall: 216 Mbits/s
iPhone 11 without brickwall :216 Mbits/s
HP Probook with brickwall
ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 247 MBytes 207 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 246 MBytes 206 Mbits/sec receiver
HP Probook without brickwall
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 311 MBytes 261 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 309 MBytes 259 Mbits/sec receiver
Additionally the output from local command # iperf3 -s -D && iperf3 -c 127.0.0.1
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 805 MBytes 675 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 805 MBytes 674 Mbits/sec receiver
== Accesspoint 2.4Ghz - width 20Mhz ==
HP Probook with brickwall
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 105 MBytes 88.0 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 103 MBytes 86.0 Mbits/sec receiver
HP Probook without brickwall
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 115 MBytes 96.7 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 113 MBytes 94.7 Mbits/sec receiver
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ps: this article https://www.mbreviews.com/tp-link-eap615-wall-plate-review/ reports higher speeds with stock firmware but I don't know which tool they used to measure this.
I tried to measure the stock firmware performance using iperf3 on 2 Android devices and could barely reach 100Mbs . This is odd since either of the devices easily hits 200Mbs on fast.com . I only pay for 200 Mbs)
Interesting observation - can you run iperf3 in Reverse mode like 'iperf3 -R -c xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' ?
-R, Reverse test mode – Server sends, client receives
And possibly as well with
-Z, --zerocopy
(I will rerun my tests later Today/Tomorrow as well with these options)
Strange - at 40Mhz the Reverse option is faster, while at 80Mhz it is slower.
2.4Ghz 40Mhz 2m distance - iphone: 148, laptop 101
5Ghz 40Mhz 2m distance - iphone: 347, laptop 259 (reverse 309)
5Ghz 80Mhz 2m distance - iphone: 348, laptop 441 (reverse 357)