Hello
I was wondering if any of you have tried the official gl.iNet firmware versus OpenWrt?
I just tried the gl.iNet firmware and I'm getting much better speeds - 700/500 instead of 350/350.
This is with a fairly basic setup for both.
Have you compared them before?
Thanks
No you are the first one. Congratulations. Please use a search engine first next time.
I'm happy to be the first one.
Thank you for your congratulations.
Did you read the MT6000 wiki page about optimizing OpenWRT ?
Yes I did.
But still not enough
Does you inquiry imply an issue with slower speeds running OpenWrt?
(Asking the OpenWrt forum about OEM firmware is rather distracting.)
Generally, merely reading a Wiki page isn't enough. If you're seeking assistance, please provide details on any optimizations done (e.g., enabling WED, offloading, etc.).
Willing to share?
I can easily route > 1 gbit (2.5GbE ports, but running iperf3 client on Win box) over a T-56 using the same SoC.
The CPU load isn't even 20%, so the issue's with your config or hw.
C:\temp\iperf3.1.1_32>iperf3 -c 192.168.10.254 -P 4
Connecting to host 192.168.10.254, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.2.240 port 55386 connected to 192.168.10.254 port 5201
[ 6] local 192.168.2.240 port 55387 connected to 192.168.10.254 port 5201
[ 8] local 192.168.2.240 port 55388 connected to 192.168.10.254 port 5201
[ 10] local 192.168.2.240 port 55389 connected to 192.168.10.254 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 40.0 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.00-1.00 sec 39.7 MBytes 333 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 0.00-1.00 sec 39.5 MBytes 331 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 0.00-1.00 sec 38.9 MBytes 327 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 0.00-1.00 sec 158 MBytes 1.33 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 39.1 MBytes 328 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 1.00-2.00 sec 40.4 MBytes 339 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 1.00-2.00 sec 38.0 MBytes 318 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 1.00-2.00 sec 40.0 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 1.00-2.00 sec 157 MBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 38.7 MBytes 325 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 2.00-3.00 sec 39.7 MBytes 333 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 2.00-3.00 sec 39.2 MBytes 329 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 2.00-3.00 sec 39.8 MBytes 334 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 2.00-3.00 sec 157 MBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 40.2 MBytes 338 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 3.00-4.00 sec 39.9 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 3.00-4.00 sec 38.1 MBytes 320 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 3.00-4.00 sec 39.5 MBytes 331 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 3.00-4.00 sec 158 MBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 38.0 MBytes 319 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 4.00-5.00 sec 39.3 MBytes 330 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 4.00-5.00 sec 40.2 MBytes 338 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 4.00-5.00 sec 39.9 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 4.00-5.00 sec 158 MBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 40.4 MBytes 339 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 5.00-6.00 sec 42.2 MBytes 354 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 5.00-6.00 sec 33.2 MBytes 278 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 5.00-6.00 sec 41.7 MBytes 350 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 5.00-6.00 sec 157 MBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 40.9 MBytes 343 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 6.00-7.00 sec 40.1 MBytes 336 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 6.00-7.00 sec 36.5 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 6.00-7.00 sec 39.3 MBytes 329 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 6.00-7.00 sec 157 MBytes 1.31 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 41.0 MBytes 344 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 7.00-8.00 sec 37.3 MBytes 313 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 7.00-8.00 sec 40.7 MBytes 342 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 7.00-8.00 sec 38.5 MBytes 323 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 7.00-8.00 sec 158 MBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 39.3 MBytes 330 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 8.00-9.00 sec 40.9 MBytes 343 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 8.00-9.00 sec 39.5 MBytes 331 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 8.00-9.00 sec 39.3 MBytes 330 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 8.00-9.00 sec 159 MBytes 1.33 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 40.1 MBytes 336 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 9.00-10.00 sec 40.4 MBytes 339 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 9.00-10.00 sec 39.9 MBytes 334 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 9.00-10.00 sec 38.4 MBytes 322 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 9.00-10.00 sec 159 MBytes 1.33 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 398 MBytes 334 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 398 MBytes 334 Mbits/sec receiver
[ 6] 0.00-10.00 sec 400 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec sender
[ 6] 0.00-10.00 sec 400 MBytes 335 Mbits/sec receiver
[ 8] 0.00-10.00 sec 385 MBytes 323 Mbits/sec sender
[ 8] 0.00-10.00 sec 385 MBytes 323 Mbits/sec receiver
[ 10] 0.00-10.00 sec 395 MBytes 332 Mbits/sec sender
[ 10] 0.00-10.00 sec 395 MBytes 332 Mbits/sec receiver
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.54 GBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec sender
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.54 GBytes 1.32 Gbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
Come on guys, s/he is just curious.
The difference you're noticing is likely because the MediaTek proprietary wifi driver performs better than the open source one.
It's not, and OP didn't say they were using wifi, you're guessing.
Yeah, I tested it over Wi-Fi several times using different versions: GL.iNet's stock firmware as well as OpenWrt (both Stable and Master). On the GL.iNet side, I kept the firmware basic. For the OpenWrt build, I’m using a minimal setup with just a few performance tweaks for the accelerator. Despite that, the upload speeds are still terrible, Upload and download are pretty low.
You're guessing as well (wired). Turns out my guess was the better one this time 
So you did, or didn't enable the listed settings?
Are those the tweaks you're referring to?
Yep.
Helped a bit.
While I’ve had the MT6000 for over 2 years and haven’t touched the Gl-inet firmware since the day I got it, yes it could be proprietary driver related. A few things I remember Gl-inet doing that OpenWrt doesn’t have enabled by default:
Enabling those are outlined on the doc page. These will give you more throughput, but not handle latency as well. I get over 800Mbits over wifi 6 at 80MHz channel width (160MHz over 1Gbit but I don’t use it) on 24.10.5 (same with 24.12 RCs since mt76 is unchanged between that stable, eventually they will begin to diverge as mt76 gets more updates though).
It could very well be proprietary mtk driver is more performant than mt76. Personally I would not go back to Gl-inet firmware to find out though.
Same good performance here. PC1 wired → MT6000 via wifi → ASUS RT-AX53U wired → PC2 and SMB performance ~80 Megabyte per second through 2 walls. Because of the Asus only with 80MHz width channels. None of the 3 tweaks used as mentioned above.
I am using 24.10 on my device on 900/900 FTTP
Full speeds achieved all the time without any issues, just enabled in firewall settings Hardware offloading.
both WiFi and lan full speeds can be achieved.