I return after some time, my first thread was about asking some things that were easy to figure out (like turning off the led's, just select trigger-none on everything including the status led where you create a new entry), and me thinking I've bricked the router, when it was just a small problem and it fixed itself in the end.
Now, in no apparent order, let me show you the little quirks I found out using this router, and when I had the time to further mess around with it
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5 GHz transmission rates slightly increase when you select a channel above 100. Also, I don't know whether it's because of the higher transmission power or less interference, but in some low signal cases the network is more stable than with a lower channel. (in the bathroom 4 walls away, it was also fast before, but it dropped once every half hour or something. Now it's the same signal power of -75, but it doesn't drop anymore!)
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The router has 4 CPU frequencies : 48, 200, 500, 716 MHz. By default the governor can go all the way down to the very low 48 MHz when idle, this can slightly hurt some network operations & speeds until it ramps up again. So set the minimum CPU frequency to 200 MHz:
echo 200000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_min_freq
To set it every startup you can use init.d or something ugly in crontab, which is what I've used, because I can do it via the Luci interface (EDIT: This DID improve some TCP/UDP connections made by my PC after a while!)
- In the Adblock app (yea slightly off topic here), setting the parralel threads to 8 or 16 makes it start and refresh quicker, and reduces CPU usage. Let's not forget making it refresh automatically with crontab, I've set myself to adblock restart every 6 hours.
Anything else you know about this router you can add here. Have a great day/evening!