I just flashed the EAP245 with the snapshot recommended. Installation was fast and easy! However...
The EAP245 is getting stuck at 40Mhz on the 5Ghz band. The thing is, I am getting 40Mhz on TX (RX is 80Mhz as expected), and speeds on TX do not go any higher than 40Mhz, although everything is set to 80Mhz. The result is that 5g speeds are slow and dont really go any higher than ~190-210Mbps with iperf, which is close to the same speed as setting the radio to 40Mhz manually.
I have multiple archer A7s with openWRT to test against, and they work with 80Mhz just fine with all my devices, and are significantly faster than the EAP245 in its current state. I was hoping for an upgrade with the EAP245.
I am not familiar enough with the hardware to understand why this is happening, so I am here to reach out to the community and see if this is a familiar issue, hopefully with a fix.
I purchased the EAP245 because I am looking for a ceiling mount AP with decent MU-MIMO that works with OpenWRT. I tried the unifi nanoHD, but the newest nanoHDs are no longer supported.
Do we send the EAP245-v3 back, or is it worth working on?
Is there an alternative wall/ceiling mounted AP (working with openWRT) that would be an upgrade from an Archer A7? I realize its hard to beat the A7, but I didn't know it would be this hard.
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