Months go by, i’m still on OpenWrtFanboy’s “REVERT-APoffload-openwrt-airoha-an7581-gemtek_w1700k-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin” from 12/12/2025 with the original partition layout and i’m more and more paranoid to ever update this device.
I just flashed another one of mine to UBI2, so that's 2/3 successful for me. Id say if everything was working fine on it before you'll likely have no issues. Realistically they all installed UBI2, so I think the issues are completely unrelated to installer.
This time I paid more attention to the install, and it did not ask me "yes/no" on overwriting. Was as simple as following the readme.
Honestly that third/problem device was always weird and 10gbe never worked reliably on initial flash (with ubi1), so now I'm wondering if the difference in what stock firmware it had made the difference. Or its just defective, I didn't test the ports on the stock firmware.
Anyways, my confidence in the installer is restored. Happy to be able to update again!
Don't be paranoid. You are missing out on a lot of upgrades. Fanboy's builds have only gotten better and better over time. And quite a bit faster networking, too. Just remember to back up the settings. And if all else fails can't you just flash back to the version you are running now? I mean yeh you would also have to downgrade to the first version of ubi, so I guess make sure you have the required files to downgrade before upgrading.
FWIW, I have 2 w1700k's and both work great on fanboy builds. I recently upgraded to his ubi2 oc minimal from ubi1 oc minimal and it's still smokin! Getting around 3.2gbps on iperf3 over wifi using a 2 stream laptop makes me giddy with delight. For once wifi isn't my weakest link. It's the drives in my dang server.
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 4.13 GBytes 3.55 Gbits/sec 653 sender
[SUM] 0.00-10.01 sec 4.12 GBytes 3.54 Gbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
A little off topic, but is there other devices out there with the same wifi chipset? My experience with this unit and Airoha has been great so far. But not sure if Airoha is the most popular pick out there.
Edit: I'm thinking more AP design, like this, but not those 12 antennas bla bla designs...
The W1701k?
Probably find more using the actual MediaTek counterpart chip?
I see some WAPs from China but all the specs are not present or not available for purchase. No biggie tho, just curious and it’s still early days.
AP design as in external vs internal? Because the „W1700K“ is an internal 11 antenna design.
There are some whitelabel models from China, which some even have the „Nokia“ brandname, though it has been dead for a long time, though none of them come close to the „W1700K“ from what I see, if only an AP, then as already said, the „W1701K“ is a literal AP. All other „Airoha“ devices seem to be either old or not as good.
I was able to do a Side-by-side diff via u-boot dumps today between HW.1.0 and HW.1.1 and only found the one interesting difference between the two. The chip on the HW.1.1 board is the same AN7581 as on HW.1.0 - the part number is identical but the internal silicon spin is one revision newer.
For the AN7581:
HW.1.0 board: PRODUCT_ID = 0x0001 (pre-E2) -> manual_rx_calib = true
HW.1.1 board: PRODUCT_ID = 0x0002 (E2) -> manual_rx_calib = false
If anyone has HW 1.1 and can test this new Extend manual RX calibration to E2 silicon patch and see if it helps those flaky HW 1.1 issues.
Waiting for the next build from @OpenWRT-fanboy ... 
Well... It was released almost as soon as you posted it: https://github.com/w1700k/builds/releases
It still did not seem to fix it, I had to replug it in multiple times again, atleast on LAN2, this is beyond weird atleast to me, as this issue seems to be absent in some builds, while magically reappearing in others. Absolutely no clue why LAN2 sometimes goes up and sometimes just doesn't, and why it's more prevalent on some builds and not others.
This is a long shot, but have you/anyone tried to swap the power supply and see if it makes any difference. I'm not using the stock one because I'm in Europe. I know that one of my other WAP's shuts down USB if less power than recommended.
I already had mentioned this, but just in case due to scrolling; that I use the 220-240V „Mikrotik“ 5A fully rated power supply with exact same specs as OEM, just that it's for EU rated, that is definitely not the problem.
In very early posts, there were much more intelligent people in terms of voltage electronics about damage and more on using this device with 220-240V sockets, so I used the exact model, that they recommended for European sockets.
Yeah, I concur. If my newest W1700k is HW1.1 I can join the debug team. But delivery date is unclear for now...
Ive swapped around and used the same adapter on multiple W1700K's, im on the OEM US "Lucent Trans" branded adapter.
The part im most curious about is if the initial firmware made the difference. Thats the only difference I have between the problem w1700k, vs the other 2 I have that are working perfectly.
All 3 of mine are HW 1.0.
The one with 10gbe problems came with firmware "WXZ001-05.00.30.82".
The two that don't have any problems at all came with firmware "WXZ001-05.00.30.64".
A little curious what everyone thats having problems what theirs came with since it seems so random between different HW versions. It should be written on the box if you still have it.
That is interesting. I don't recall the version on mine, and don't know how to check the version since I'm on Wrt. If you do, let me know.
I'm testing 6.18 on one of my units now, and so far it's been solid. I had to change the HW offload patches, mainly the bridge patch. So if anyone else is interested I have the patches in my repo.
Edit: fl.u.ip4.flowi4_tos is now fl.u.ip4.flowi4_dscp.
Is the u-boot version the same for the 3 ?
strings /dev/mtd0 | grep U-Boot
There are 3 AXON 2.0 builds :
U-Boot 2014.04-rc1 (Jun 12 2024 - 08:14:34) AXON 2.0: on the wikiU-Boot 2014.04-rc1 (Jun 26 2024 - 16:03:23) AXON 2.0: my HW 1.0 (sometime the "no RX" issue on WAN, but rarely)U-Boot 2014.04-rc1 (Nov 26 2024 - 11:47:20) AXON 2.0: @shdf HW 1.1, both "no RX" andGeneric Clause 45 PHYissues, often doesn't like having the lan2 cable already plugged on boot
Perhaps they initialize the 10Gbps port in a different way, which conflits with the Linux driver later.
Yeah the ones that work have the
U-Boot 2014.04-rc1 (Jun 26 2024 - 16:03:23) AXON 2.0
And the inconsistent 10gbe one for me has
U-Boot 2014.04-rc1 (Nov 26 2024 - 11:47:20) AXON 2.0
So seems like at least builds/FW from Nov 26 and on seem more problematic?
Edit - Pasted things wrong.
Do you have kernel traces for the 10Gbe issues ?
Just in case, does devmem 0x1fb0005c give 0x00000001 (cf https://github.com/orgs/w1700k/discussions/6#discussioncomment-16826943) ?
How would one log that or run a kernel trace? Happy to try to provide as many logs as I can to try to help solve this.
And yeah they all return 0x00000001 with that command.