I installed OpenWRT for the first time on a CUDY WR3000 V1 yesterday. All I want to achieve is a stable, reasonably fast, reasonably secure wifi signal throughout my house for my wife and I to be able to watch YouTube videos without interruptions for buffering. I went through the QuickStart Guide and got Wifi set up with WPA2 passwords (our Nintendo Switch doesn’t support WPA3), but I have a sense that there are many additional settings that a competent user would change. The wifi mostly works, but I got some stutters on a youtube video today over wifi (versus ~500 Mb/s wired connection).
I’m curious what an amateur end-user should aspire to do next, if anything, for a straightforward home use case for smooth performance. Here are things I’ve seen and am wondering about:
-Bufferbloat - do I need to figure this stuff out?
-https-dns-proxy - it looks like this package isn’t installed by default. Do I care? Should I try to install it?
-Beam forming / BSS coloring - I assume these features are desirable, but I don’t think (?) they’re configurable through the Luci web interface. Should I assume they’re already active? Should I try to figure out if they are?
-What else should an amateur end user try to mess with in a first-time installation for basic home use?
(above is attempt to post link to my waveform results conducted by ethernet. Grade “B.” SPEED Download 638.3 Mbps Upload 1038.4 Mbps. Latency Unloaded 14 ms Download Active +32 ms Upload Active +5 ms. Seems okay?)
Regarding encrypted DNS lookups: I assume I get the same overall result if I just turn on DNS-over-HTTPS security settings in Firefox. Correct?
Congestion on the 5 Ghz band: As of this moment, clicking “scan” on my 5 Ghz radio spits out “no data,” which I assume means I have no congestion (?)
Edit: I really did go outside and play [[edit edit - with my dog]]. Thanks for the tip.
Appreciate your dedication Your router already thanks you.
(B)ufferbloat sucks a bit. Did you run torrent download in background? Retry at opposite time of the day if not. Providers oversubscribe infrastructures. But it can be fixed - check sqm or qosmate scripts…
(C) so dont bother about colouring, just set up both bands with same country, access point name and password and network and hope clients figure it out. You can have dozen AP-s in each band - consider separate guest network, but it is completely legal to have one WPA2 AP for TV and nintendo in same network (i know nintendo switch prefers 2ghz, so it needs to be 5ghz only, my tv also is WPA2 and once 2ghz forever 2ghz) check out wiki on guest network if you have more IOT devices…. There is a limitation that you need to bring up AP to have channel survey, otherwise only wifi client scan in wifi settings works….
Your router already thanks you.