It makes more sense when you understand this is the replacement for the previous Asus filogic models.
TUF-AX4200 (filogic 830) ---> BT6 (filogic 860)
TUF-AX6000 (filogic 830) ---> BT8 (filogic 860)
Differences are extra 2.5G port and faster wifi.
If you want filogic 880 + a 9 port 2.5G switch, there is the ASUS ROG Strix GS7 Magic Box Router. China only currently. ($499 on ebay if you really want it today).
FYI, American prices have 20% tariffs.
That's amazing. I wonder why Asus is launching that in China first?
Looks like we've got MLO support guys and gals 
Felix's commits from 10 days ago have just been merged into the main openwrt.git two hours ago 
Specifically this one. Let's get to testing
Edit: Blah. The firmware selctor says Version SNAPSHOT (r30646-3544a06766). I'm guessing thats the daily build built today at 14:52. The commit was at 16:46 xD
Tomorrow fingers crossed
Oh, and equally important as the aforementioned mlo
Could we pretty please have the led indicator turn white instead of green once the router is happy? To replicate the original fw. And it looks infinitely better Or at least have it as an option in luci instead of the current RGB. 
Asus is a broadcom shop and broadcom does not want mediatek models in US/EU markets.
It's a complete coincidence US/EU get the broadcom equivalent sold as the ROG STRIX GS-BE18000. 
Since BT6 and BT8 is sharing its FCC ID MSQ-RTBE7J00, then I am assuming it should be using near identical hardware with the exception of I/O ports.
Page 7 on its test report mention the following:
In all the models, the RF parameters/design are identical; the difference model for the different models is the I/O port supported.
@iluvopenwrt FYI, Asus China also recently released the ROG Strix GS7 "Pro" version which houses Broadcom chipset based on their firmware. It looks very similar to GS-BE18000 which is using BCM6766 according to RMerlin (Asuswrt-Merlin dev), but replacing it's 6GHz with a 2nd 5GHz.
| BT8 | BT6 |
|---|---|
| 2.4GHz 2x2 | 2.4GHz 2x2 |
| 5GHz 3x3 | 5GHz 2x2 |
| 6GHz 3x3 | 6GHz 2x2 |
| --- | --- |
| 2.5G WAN x 1 | 2.5G WAN x 1 |
| 2.5G LAN x 1 | 1G LAN x 3 |
| 1G LAN x 2 | USB 3.0 x1 |
| USB 3.0 x1 |
$30 USD MSRP difference. Like I said, it's the same thing they did on the previous TUF models. The BT8 is what you should buy, at least for your main gateway.
So the system built a new snapshot while I was sleeping. That part is wonderful. I just updated to r30656-ba76da4fe9 which should have the mlo commits included. But I still can't get the network to come up 
My /etc/config/wireless is as follows:
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
option radio '0'
option band '2g'
option channel '1'
option htmode 'EHT40'
option cell_density '0'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'OpenWrt'
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
option key '123'
option ocv '0'
config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
option radio '1'
option band '5g'
option channel 'auto'
option htmode 'EHT160'
option cell_density '0'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'OpenWrt5GHz'
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
option key '123'
option ocv '0'
config wifi-device 'radio2'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
option radio '2'
option band '6g'
option channel 'auto'
option htmode 'EHT160'
option disabled '0'
option ocv '0'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio2'
option device 'radio2'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'OpenWrt6GHz'
option encryption 'sae'
option key '123'
config wifi-iface 'wifinet3'
option device 'radio1'
option mode 'sta'
option network 'wwan'
option ssid 'MyHomeWiFi'
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
option key '12345'
option ocv '0'
config wifi-iface 'wifinet0'
list radio 'radio0'
list radio 'radio1'
list radio 'radio2'
option mlo '1'
option ssid 'OpenWrtMLO'
option mode 'ap'
option network 'lan'
option encryption 'sae'
option key '1234578'
Am I doing something wrong?
Edit: I tried commenting out all the other wifi-ifaces including the sta. No go
Edit2: Maybe I need the following commit too. More waiting (and hoping) xd
Still if someone wants to test tonight's r30656-ba76da4fe9 and report back that'd be sweet too
Ok the newest shapshot just landed with the MLO fix commit (r30660-a2c361c520). It definitely changed something, but I can't get it to work.
Now my wireless looks like this.
From the comments on this commit:
please keep in mind that upstream mt76 does not have MLO support enabled yet
So I guess we still have to wait a bit.
Thank you. Those two comments were exactly what I was looking for. More waiting it is then
There has been an update to mt76 thatās now out in the latest snapshot, but I donāt know if thatās the one that has MLO enabled.
Edit: fixed link.
Fraid not bud, but appreciate the update. Iāve glanced over the list this morning before work, there wasnāt even a mention of any 7988 changes, let alone anything related to mlo. I think weāre still quite a ways off from having mlo support. Iād recon we have to wait a couple more months at least because weāre dependent on the upstream guys to implement it into the driver And afaik theyāre working on backhaul support first. But Iām optimistic fronthaul support will follow sooner rather than later once our heroes upstream get that part done. Even though personally, backhaul support means nothing to me at this point in time with a single unit. I wanna wait for at least 4x4 support before getting another unit or two (and I wouldnāt mind seeing 8x8 devices xd). Are BT10/BQ16 (Pro) openwrtable? Think they use broadcom and qualcomm chipsets, not mediatekās). Something 4x4 with two 10 gig ports would be far more interesting to tinker with, but hey, gotta start somewhere
(and no, I donāt have high expectations for the bpi-r4-pro or their be19 card. i hope im wrong, but..)
That said, Iām like a kid before xmas morning when it comes to fronthaul support because Iām hoping itāll get me close to my internet limit with a repeater (my wifi throughput is cut in half, thatās why I want it so much :D).
In any case, I think we gotta wait for the upstream guys to implement mlo support into the driver, have it accepted/merged into the new kernel and then have a kind soul backport the patch to openwrt and our current 6.12 kernel, assuming thatās possible (although I suppose another kernel upgrade by the time mlo is implemented isnāt entirely out of the question either). But to be frank and honest Iām less interested in how it trickles down, as long as it does (although if anyone cares to explain it Iād be grateful, (and yes, I know I could probably google it)).
And to the best of my knowledge, 6.17 linux kernel patch notes only state āmore mlo workā for the mt76 chipset, but it doesnāt go into any more detail than that one single line - so Iām not holding my breath. Still sounds like a very much work in progress/behind the scenes thing to me.
Yes, I realize now that its probably still gonna take a while.
Im running one BT8 with the original Asus firmware to test things like MLO and another one with OpenWRT to test new snapshots.
I still think that TP-link BE805 (with 10Gbps ports) should be able to work with OpenWRT, but its only available in the US.
Not to steer too far off topic but, what are you using client side and have you been able to aggregate all three bands in your tests? My Asus RoG USB BE-92 would only connect to two bands at a time, seemingly at random which two, but never all three at once. That was under Win11 24H2 with the latest 5102.24.126.2 driver dated July 15th.
The BT8 was roleplaying my ISPās router for a couple days, at least the wifi part, and the signal strength was pretty weak and hence the throughput was horrendous (~30mbit/s on the 5GHz band). Thatās why I need it as a repeater (and Asusā firmware doesnāt allow for that - cough cash grab).
Now I have it set up as a repeater with openwrt and getting 600-900 megs over the 6Ghz band (itās connected to the main 4x4 ax router over the 5Ghz band with -49db signal strength so yay for that). Itās usually around 600ish, sometimes it even dips into the 500s. Seems a bit finnicky. Thatās why Iām so hyped about fronthaul mlo. Should effectively double that and make me one happy camper in the process. At that point another unit would quadruple that and probably allow me to get the full 2Gbits Iām getting from my ISP. But I just wanna break the 1gig barrier (fast.com did spike to 1.1/1.2 but it was for mere seconds in the bajillion speedtests Iāve done). And yes I know I could do that now with another unit from asus using their fw. I donāt want to because it doesnāt fit my narrative.
I have done some tests with usb-wifi7 and have never seen more than 2 radios, but I have only seen 5 and 6Ghz - never 2.4Ghz (might be some setting I have) did not know that more than 2 was possible.
I haven't done much speedtests but this is from a computer with a usb-wifiadapter 6GHz 160MHz connected to a BT8 running OpenWRT at 6GHz 160MHz
iperf3 -c 192.168.86.214
Connecting to host 192.168.86.214, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.86.120 port 48292 connected to 192.168.86.214 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 189 MBytes 1.58 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 189 MBytes 1.59 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 187 MBytes 1.57 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 188 MBytes 1.58 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 192 MBytes 1.61 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 187 MBytes 1.57 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 192 MBytes 1.61 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 190 MBytes 1.60 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 190 MBytes 1.60 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 57.9 MBytes 485 Mbits/sec 1 4.15 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.72 GBytes 1.48 Gbits/sec 1 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 1.72 GBytes 1.47 Gbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
Just installed iperf3 to try it. Iām getting waay less. Also on 6GHz.
iperf3.exe -c 192.168.100.100
Connecting to host 192.168.100.100, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.100.93 port 2148 connected to 192.168.100.100 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 58.0 MBytes 485 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 68.8 MBytes 576 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 72.8 MBytes 611 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 74.5 MBytes 626 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 75.6 MBytes 634 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 75.0 MBytes 629 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 71.4 MBytes 599 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 73.8 MBytes 619 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 73.1 MBytes 613 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 72.2 MBytes 607 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 715 MBytes 600 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 715 MBytes 600 Mbits/sec receiver
I thought it was because of the placement because thereās like half a foot of a wall blocking direct line of sight so I thought it might be attenuation from that, so I just moved it a couple feet to the middle of the corridor where it has (a more or less - thereās two chairs in the way lol) direct los to the adapter, some 7 meters away
iperf3.exe -c 192.168.100.100
Connecting to host 192.168.100.100, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.100.93 port 2155 connected to 192.168.100.100 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 53.6 MBytes 449 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 66.6 MBytes 559 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 67.4 MBytes 564 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 71.0 MBytes 596 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 75.8 MBytes 636 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 70.6 MBytes 590 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 70.9 MBytes 596 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 72.9 MBytes 612 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 74.4 MBytes 624 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 77.2 MBytes 649 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 700 MBytes 588 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 700 MBytes 588 Mbits/sec receiver
Somewhat perplexed, I moved the router one meter away from the adapter:
iperf3.exe -c 192.168.100.100
Connecting to host 192.168.100.100, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.100.93 port 2235 connected to 192.168.100.100 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 49.9 MBytes 418 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 54.2 MBytes 455 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 63.9 MBytes 536 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 63.9 MBytes 536 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 71.1 MBytes 595 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 65.5 MBytes 549 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 73.6 MBytes 620 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 69.0 MBytes 578 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 68.8 MBytes 577 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 72.2 MBytes 607 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 652 MBytes 547 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 652 MBytes 547 Mbits/sec receiver
Exact same numbers. While Iām glad itās not a placement issue, shouldnāt those numbers be twice as high? Seriously, what gives?
Windows reports a link speed of 2882Mbits and the signal strength is excellent (full bars on the taskbar - in all of the three tests).
Iām running snapshot r30728-3aee42001f for what itās worth but I doubt thatās relevant in this case.
(And Iām getting half those numbers on 5Ghz, but thatās to be expected since thatās what im using for the wireless backhaul). But the 6Ghz range? I really I donāt think I should be getting those numbers
Any ideas?
Edit: Just tried switching it to AX instead of BE. Still the same numbers 
This is what it looks like in LuCi.
I get various results too, just tried another (ubuntu) computer in the same position with built in qualcomm wifi7 and got these results:
Connecting to host 192.168.86.214, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.86.137 port 48764 connected to 192.168.86.214 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 146 MBytes 1.22 Gbits/sec 0 2.38 MBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 163 MBytes 1.36 Gbits/sec 0 2.79 MBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 129 MBytes 1.08 Gbits/sec 0 3.08 MBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 85.0 MBytes 713 Mbits/sec 0 3.45 MBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 70.6 MBytes 592 Mbits/sec 14 1.82 MBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 65.0 MBytes 545 Mbits/sec 0 1.92 MBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 56.6 MBytes 475 Mbits/sec 14 1.01 MBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 45.4 MBytes 381 Mbits/sec 0 1.08 MBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 54.2 MBytes 456 Mbits/sec 0 1.13 MBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 67.8 MBytes 568 Mbits/sec 0 1.16 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 882 MBytes 740 Mbits/sec 28 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 879 MBytes 737 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
And its always slower with Banana Pi R4.
Not that it should matter but the router im connected to is a BT8 (U-Boot mod)
Thatās really weird on that ubuntu pc too. Could anyone more knowledgeable chime in?
Dongknows says my adapter is likely based on the Intel 202 chipset. It also goes on to list:
Wi-Fi Bandwidth - Tri-band BE6500
Max Ceiling Speed - 2880Mbps
I was under the impression the max (theoretical) speed was 6500 limitited by the usbās 5gbit limit (+overhead). Thatās why I bought it. I mean itās a $100/ā¬ adapter, I figured it could do 5gbit/s lol. What a scam if thatās truly the case and it canāt push past 2880 even with MLO enabled (which mine didnāt with the original fw, but Iāve been blaming it on low signal strength), not hardware imposed limitations. So customer beware I guess. The ā#$% they get away with these daysā¦
That aside, I did see fast.com spike to 1.4gbits but it was only for a couple seconds. So itās not that the adapter isnāt capable of delivering at least that much (which would still make me happi-er), but these 500-600s just hurt at this point
And itās obviously not a signal strength/attenuation issue if Iām getting those poor speeds with the router placed one meter away from the adapter. I donāt really want to go buy an ax adapter just to test if I can get the full 1.2-.1.4gbit I should be getting.
Any way to move into the realm of 1gbit now that I know I should be getting it? Some openwrt setting I donāt know about or something? I mean it is using 160Mhz channels and the signal is as good as itās ever good going to be. Iām really at a loss
Edit: And Iām also using the U-boot mod, but like you said, it really shouldnāt matter?
I realized I could "crank it up a notch" with BT8 and the Qualcomm Wifi7 laptop and set both to 6GHz 320MHz - but the results did not differ that much:
Connecting to host 192.168.86.214, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.86.137 port 57480 connected to 192.168.86.214 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 98.1 MBytes 822 Mbits/sec 0 2.73 MBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 65.4 MBytes 548 Mbits/sec 0 2.73 MBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 161 MBytes 1.35 Gbits/sec 0 3.18 MBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 199 MBytes 1.67 Gbits/sec 0 3.76 MBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.01 sec 205 MBytes 1.71 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 5.01-6.00 sec 131 MBytes 1.11 Gbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 58.8 MBytes 493 Mbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 71.9 MBytes 603 Mbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 81.9 MBytes 687 Mbits/sec 0 4.15 MBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 75.4 MBytes 632 Mbits/sec 15 2.90 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.14 GBytes 978 Mbits/sec 15 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.17 sec 1.14 GBytes 960 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
But I think this computer and its (ath12) drivers probably still is considered a "work in progress"