Unfortunately , some of the drivers either cant or havent yet been made fully compliant, so cant use the full tx power they are legally allowed to.
Some things to check
iw reg get
Have you set the country code correctly? If openwrt is operating with parameters that your other devices arent allowed to, youll likely see some issues. Are you using one of thr channels that has the highest allowed tx power? (Look closely, usually some are limited , often having DFS listed besidr). Have you tried changing channels - probably unlikely but might be interference.
uci show | grep disasso
Is disassoc_low_ack=1 ? If so you could experiement with disabling that.
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[0].disassoc_low_ack=‘0’
uci commit
uci show #optionally with grep filter from above
Repeat the set command above for all radios listed.
To change country codes there are 4 entries showing on my system. Modify them in the same way as the low ack setting from above
no problem,
I'm drawing on what I've learned along the way - looks like both those options can be made through the web interface (might be new - I don't recall these few years ago)
Yep, where you are - goto Advance Settings tab at the top, and you should see the country code dropdown field.
On both tabs at the bottom, under Interface Configuration, select Advanced Settings there as well, and you should see a tick box for the 'disassociate on low ack'.
Save changes, and give it a try for a day or two. (reboot too if you want to be completely sure changes are active, but lots of stuff will dynamically apply on openwrt)
I have three choices in that range. I'll try those. Thanks.
Also is there anything advantage to setting it to AUTO instead. I think on the Linksys firmware AUTO finds the best channel near me trying to avoid the same channels as neighbors.
Is there an app I can use to look at neighbors channels for the Mac?
OpenWrt does not do anything "special" with the "auto" setting. It does not use the radio(s) to scan for possible interference, outside of the DFS requirement in the 5 GHz band. You are almost always better off picking a channel after you do your own "site survey" than letting "auto" pick what is generally the lowest channel in the band.
You can't "arbitrarily" pick a "base" channel when it is a bandwidth that covers multiple channels. Various OSes will report a different channel for 40 MHz-wide channels.
Yeah, the 80Mhz channel width means that it uses "multiple channels" (specifically 4 channels at once) so some systems report that as a normal channel and then whether the additional channels are above vs below, other systems report the "average" of all the channels.
In my experience unless you have a totally quiet 5Ghz band, you're better off with 40Mhz channels than 80Mhz channels because interference is reduced.
