R7800 showing slower speeds on gigabit internet

[jamesm113]

Running OpenWRT 23.05.5. Just had my internet upgraded to 1000/100 service.

Trying to get 1000mbps on fast.com, but only seeing 540mbps on wired devices.

Enabled software offloading, seeing 700mbps now.

What else can I do? I tried googling around, but the threads were usually old and got very technical very fast

Thanks for the help!

[jdwl1o1]

Disable sqm, 7800 doesn’t have the cpu power to shape at 1 gb.

Beyond that you need faster hardware for gigabit. Filogic or Intel

[brada4]

Search forum for nss build with proprietary offload and qos added.
700mbps is good with SW offload.

[egc]

You can try an NSS build see:

Kong pro firmware for IPQ806x (R7500, R7800, EA8500, ...)

Hello , I have been trying to install Kong's latest firmware for my R7800 . The firmware loads up but the wifi seems to be disabled on my router . Only my power and lan led lit up and nothing else seems to work . I install the firmware through a tftp client and it goes through successfully. I dont know why this keeps happening or is there an installation step i keep missing out on. Please help me.

https://www.desipro.de/openwrt/

Ipq806x NSS build (Netgear R7800 / TP-Link C2600 / Linksys EA8500)

Have Master, 23.05, and 22.03 builds for ipq806x devices with hardware offloading using the two NSS cores. All Master and 23.05 R7800 builds are tested before positing (router boots + wifi works). I don't own a C2600, EA7500v1, EA8500, G10, NBG6817, R7500v1, R7500v2, or d7800 (builds for these are untested - make sure you known how to tftp if you get in trouble) Build Goals: Maximum ipq806x performance for Gigabit WAN connections. Simple and compatible with master (able to flash back and fo…

Older K4 builds had Gigabit throughput but newer builds are unfortunately much slower unless the NSS cores are used

[phinn]

Might be time for a GL-MT6000. My WRT3200ACM wasn't cutting it with 1 Gbps either. Now doing that at 0.5% CPU load with HFO.

[jamesm113]

Thanks for the quick advice!

I'll do my best to get the R7800 tuned to maximize performance, but should probably look at upgrading.

I purchased a Linksys E8450 a while back. Unfortunately, it got bricked somehow (looks like a known issue with OpenWRT) and I haven't been motivated to try to unbrick it.

Ultimately, the wifi speeds were faster/more consistent than the R7800, but the range was significantly worse on the E8450 (perhaps due to the lack of external antennas, perhaps not?).

I do need/prefer DFS support since I'm in a condo complex with lots of nearby neighbors on 5 GHz. I'll scope out the GL-MT6000

[egc]

I have an R7800 running an NSS build it runs OK at 1 Gigabit throughput.
However 23.05 is the end of the line for NSS builds they are not compatible with DSA but for the next two? years you should be good.

I also have a DL-WRX36 can be had under $100 and runs gigabit speed without a sweat

[jamesm113]

Turned on packet steering in addition to software offloading, now getting 930mpbs-1.1gbps.

EDIT: Haven't flashed the NSS build yet

[slh]

@jamesm113

1.1gbps

Well, that is physically impossible on this hardware, so something is off with your measuring.

[jamesm113]

I've only got 1.1Gbps to show once. Usually shows as high 900's:

[slh]

Well, scrap that speedtest then. You only have 1000BASE-T ports, the maximum throughput physically possible is around 930 MBit/s, reports above ~940 MBit/s are bogus.

[ninjanoir78]

Try speed test by Ookla
And waveform

[jamesm113]

Getting about 934 on Okla. All over wired.

5GhZ wireless tops off around 400ish, even with an 866 link speed.

[slh]

That's well within expectations for 802.11ac (and 2x2 clients at HE80), you will need a 802.11ax wifi router to ~double that figure.