Ok nvm, turns out nothing was bricked, I set my ethernet adapter to automatic in windows and now I can connect. I have managed to setup wireless as well. Thank you very much and I am very happy to use and learn openWRT.
Any solution for this issue?can anyone post iw list?
Do all these issues have to do with RC5? I'm thinking I've made the right choice not upgrading past RC4 and deciding to wait until 22.03 matures a little bit, maybe until 22.03.1 before reflashing OpenWrt.
Does the 5ghz work on rc4? I'm on rc5 and it actually worked initially and I managed to get some speedtests in, but now I can't get it working, not sure what changed. To clarify, I can't even access the LUCI from 5ghz, router is completely inaccessible, radio works however. Was able to do so initial though, about 2 hours ago.
For me 5 Ghz has been disconnecting after a few minutes on my main phone from RC1 to RC4 and on a snapshot from this month so I flashed stock back which holds connection flawlessly, hopefully the bugs will be sorted out in OpenWrt, all I could do was to give some specs on this thread. I've never flashed RC5.
Same Issue here with 5Ghz on RC5, what seems to be happening:
- 5Ghz Auto Channel selection seems broken, shows "Channel ? (5000Mhz)" in LuCi
- 5Ghz Manual Channel setting often breaks showing a DFS error and failing to set up the interface
- Android devices disconnecting often
- Flaky speeds / Intermittent speed drop (Cant get more than 240~Mbits single stream/~490Mbits 5 streams over iperf3 with dumb ap, Client Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265, link rate 780-866Mbits)
What seemed to help:
For Issues 1 & 2: Setting wireless.radio1.channels='161, 100, 40, 36' to give alternative channels when the DFS error occurs with uci. (This apparently does not work with LuCi)
For Issue 3:
Setting wireless.default_radio0.disassoc_low_ack='0' wireless.default_radio1.disassoc_low_ack='0' for both radios
Can you post iw list? In my case both radio0 and radio1 configured for same antenna.
Wiphy phy1
wiphy index: 1
Available Antennas: TX 0x3 RX 0x3
Configured Antennas: TX 0x3 RX 0x3
Wiphy phy0
wiphy index: 0
Available Antennas: TX 0x3 RX 0x3
Configured Antennas: TX 0x3 RX 0x3
I can confirm that manually setting the MTU to 1500 helped me get over any loading website issue as I mentioned before.
Why remaining of the antenna is not showing up.both radio1 and radio0 are using same antennas (antenna 0x3).any idea what is 0x3 antenna means.in my case also both radio uses antenna 0x3.is this the cause for only one 2.4 ghz antenna to work?,only one antenna is working for 2.4 Ghz.any power saving features or something we should disable to work all antennas.any help is very much appreciated.thanks for the quick reply🙂
Never disable WMM, it's a hard requirement to reach wireless speeds over 54 MBit/s.
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Wifi physical turn on or off button working on rc5 ?
Can confirm it turns the device on or off as expected
Ok I have moved on to compiling an image from source and setting custom packages and options when compiling after making sure the rc5 LuCi build works well. When setting up the compilation options I target "TP-Link Archer C6 V3" and as far as I am aware this sets up the default required firmware and kernel modules for this router. Indeed, I was able to compile the image, flash it, and edit the /etc/config/wireless file to enable the two radios. Yet only the 2.4ghz seems to work, and poorly at that, it's led flashes constantly, and the 5ghz one is on permanently, I can only see the 2.4ghz on my windows machine, and when I attempt to connect, it stalls in some kind of loop, and I can't ssh using that connection (Ethernet works fine though).
Running logread I get the following at the start:
daemon.err procd: Could not find firmware /lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7663pr2h.bin: No such file or directory
When I manually download this firmware from the repo and place it where it is supposed to go, I get other problems related to the 5ghz, not sure if it is relevant, but in any case I am currently focusing on trying to fix the 2.4ghz, oddly enough, there is no other warning or error message in my logs, radio0 and wlan0 start up fine, and at the end when I try to connect, I get the following loop:
daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA aa:2c:b4:82:d9:72 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA aa:2c:b4:82:d9:72 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1)
daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED aa:2c:b4:82:d9:72 off
This repeats indefinitely. Any ideas on what I may have done wrong? This is my first time compiling from source but I made sure to do it properly and configure the options in the right order, in any case I am building off the same target that all the release candidates build off of, so maybe analyzing this problem will help fix some of the problems others have with both 2.4ghz and 5ghz.
They silently released a new version for this C6 v4 series: https://www.tp-link.com/in/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-c6/v4/
Comes with a 1.2Ghz Dual Core CPU.
Edit 1: 400Mbps on 2.4Ghz
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Yes.... TP1900BN (Mediatek MT7626B(N)) same for TP-LINK Archer C64
Was discussing with a friend and he told me that on flashing the c6u firmware on c6, he gets above 450mbps on wifi but with c6's own firmware or a6v3 stable firmware this is not possible.
Any insights here?
Didn't expect that to actually work but C6U firmware flashes successfully, wireless also functional (cannot test performance at the moment)
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This is on RC6 archerc6v3
Laptop Wifi:
Description : Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
Radio type : 802.11ac
Channel : 36
Receive rate (Mbps) : 866.7
Transmit rate (Mbps) : 866.7
Signal : 97%
iperf3 receive mode (wired desktop>switch>archerc6>wireless laptop) (4 parallel streams)
iperf3.exe -c 192.168.0.20 -P 4 --omit 10 -t 70 -i 10 --reverse
result:
[SUM] 0.00-69.99 sec 3.95 GBytes 485 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf3 send mode (wireless laptop>archerc6>switch>wired desktop) (4 parallel streams)
[SUM] 0.00-69.99 sec 3.60 GBytes 442 Mbits/sec sender
So even though it claims to be connected via 866 Mbits this is what I get.
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