Kong pro firmware for IPQ806x (R7500, R7800, EA8500, ...)

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The Kong build was the best as router for long time except 3rd party wifi. Wifi is significantly slower (up to 30%) compare to stock/voxel build.
But recently i was upgraded from 500 to 1gb Internet and open-wrt performance is not good enough at my site even with Sqm off and maximum frequency at 175000. The Internet speed is fluctuating from 550mbs up to 800 mbs.
As long as i install the Voxel build i have constant Internet speed at 950mbs and Wifi speed at 640 mbs.

Can you suggest any optimization to bring Kong based router to same performance?

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Use either my build or Kong’s NSS hardware offloading build.

Will get you line speed wired and some wifi offloading (temporarily not at full potential). :sunglasses:

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Thank you but port forwarding is not working on Kong NSS build. What about your build? Let me have a link

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Hi, anyone successful setup wireguard with KONG?

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yes, same as usual, not difference, what is your problem?

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New Kong Firmware Build available at the usual place. I just installed it and it's working fine on my 7500v2. Thanks, @KONG. :smiley:

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The WiFI issue might caused by CT firmware: https://github.com/greearb/ath10k-ct/issues/138.
TLDR: with CT firmware, the WiFi on R7800 might have:

  • a stable speed when transferring data from client to router, but
  • an unstable (often cut in half) speed for router to client.

The only solution is to use non-CT firmware.

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Hi,

So I'm a total novice at this point so bare with me. I just want to install Kong's latest build, but unsure which version to use and what the differences are between these I see listed:

kong-ipq806x-generic-netgear_r7800-squashfs-factory.img

kong-ipq806x-generic-netgear_r7800-initramfs-uImage

kong-ipq806x-generic-netgear_r7800-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

So I'm assuming I need to use factory.img since I'm going from a r7800 stock netgear fw and sysupgrade for future updates. But what is uimage? And nss that I'm hearing of?

I basically want speed and stability, as the stock stuff is in not so stable

Thanks for any insight on this. Thank you

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Factory image from oem firmware, after that, when upgrade is a available, go with sysupgrade.

If you want a real stability maybe not take nss yet.

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Thank you for the help. What is NSS?

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Looking forward to someone answering that I too would like to know..

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@Crashingonward NSS are the two hardware offloading CPUs that are available on our boards. It enables true hardware offloading of the main two CPUs and gives you full line rate for NAT (940mbps), benefits in SQM, and wifi speed benefits.

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So with that said are there any guides on how to implement nss ?

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You just load the firmware and it is automatically loaded (enabled by default). :sunglasses:

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So forgive me if this is a dumb question but as I'm currently running Kongs non nss firmware would I need the factory.img or sysupgrade.bin ? :thinking:
I'm assuming start fresh with factory.

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Sysupgrade

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Anyone willing to help me set up unbound for my R7800 running the latest KONG firmware?
Step-by-step, what packages, how to config, test that it's working, etc.
I'm sure it'll be useful for many people here.

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Hello anyone using a Amazon Fire Cube and seeing odd things with the wifi 5ghz and 2.4 where it says it's connected then not connected every few seconds but the odd thing is the Fire Cube works fine as normally when you lose connection you see the check the network option and lose the main menu

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Has the NSS CPU core support for hardware offloading been enabled in Kong's?

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Yes - he has a folder of NSS builds

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