Loss of AC/5 GHz on Archer C7

Hello,

Archer C7 v2
OpenWrt 22.03.3

This is essentially a fault report rather than a problem.

I live in an apartment, with reasonable wireless channel density (radios above and below, not so much either side).

The Archer that I rescued from the trash was performing admirably for almost a year, when the 5 GHz AC radio seemed to drop out, the access point no longer being visible on any device. I run similar settings at 2.4 GHz, so I simply switched over to the lower band.

I assumed that if I powered off the router and re-connected it after 30 seconds, it might resume service on the higher band, but no. LuCI kept showing the QCA9880 radio operating at the mythical "? Mbit/s".

Then I searched and read another topic Wireless instability on ath10k radios after upgrade to 21.02.1, which suggested that the ath10k firmware and kernel driver were to blame.

So I have "rolled back" from the Candela Technologies firmware/driver to the original and rebooted, resulting in the restoration of my 5 GHz access point.

Is there a reason why the -ct variant is the current default for ath10k devices?

I'd submit that as a bug since you have a pretty clear report here.