Looking forward to a new build, any idea when you have time to finish it ?
Thx !
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Hi jmomo,
Any news about 23.05.x?
Thanks a lot.
Yes I will be doing a rebuild here soon. I've been busy with life stuff lately, but it's still on my task list.
In fact I think I already built and published the last version. I think I just forgot to do an announcement here. I'll look into it and you should hear from me in the next week or so.
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New patch set v20 is for OpenWRT v23.05.x.
New builds are out.
https://jmomo.net/files/openwrt/TRENDnet_TEW-827DRU_20240329020701_OpenWRT_v23.05.3_luci/bin/
I also did a build for v22.03.6 back in December but forgot to post it.
https://jmomo.net/files/openwrt/TRENDnet_TEW-827DRU_20231205164135_OpenWRT_v22.03.6_luci/bin/
Remember to always back up your config and files before upgrades.
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Thanks jmomo,
Unfortunately my speeds have reduced to 250-300Mbs after upgrading the firmware to 23.05.3
Previously, I had written the following in the top post:
I have seen some stability issues over long periods of time. Every once in awhile (30-90 days) I'll see a sudden reboot of one of the devices I manage. I don't think this issue is specific to the tew827dru hardware because I've seen similar reports on other ipq806x devices.
With version 23.05.3, I can safely say this problem is resolved.
Hi jmomo,
The stability comes from the fact that the default governor is set to Performance in 23.03.x and later, thus eliminating the random crashes caused by the frequency scaling (ondemand governor) used in previous releases. If you want to use the old releases, you can manually set the Performance governor.
When you have some time, please start trying to create patches for the master snapshot. For other ipq806x devices, I clearly see the improvement in WIFI throughput when running master snapshot (kernel 6.6) images compared to 23.035.x. Thank you.
Thanks Jmomo, I been using your 21 build for a while and just wanted to upgrade to 23.
I tried flashing, but Im stuck without lan, just a blinking ligth of every port connected.
I've tried 192.168.0/10/1.1 no luck at all. Is there a way to factory reset it and try again.
Thanks a lot!
Hey Jmomo, I hope you are doing well. I hope you can help me with my brand new brick.
Thanks a lot
Do a typical OpenWRT reset with the reset button. Google for the how-to document and follow the instructions.
If that does not work, try to get to the uboot http Recovery Loader and reinstall.
If that doesn't work, it's dead.
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Well, there would be one further step of escalation (serial console access), which would at least provide hints what's failing - but as that also requires on the bootloader to be alive to some extent, chances would be (very) bleak.
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Thanks a lot Jmomo, we are back baby!
Im going to give it a try v23
Hi jmomo, I did a fresh install of v23, but I dont have a software tab, nor can I opkg update. Is there a way to include/install it.
Thanks!
At first I thought you were just smoking crack but it looks like there is a history of other users having a similar problems. You might want to google this for yourself.
Maybe my builds are missing the "luci-app-opkg" package and/or it's not being included automatically.
I don't have time to look into this for now, but I'll check my builds in the next couple of days and see if I need to fix something.
The luci or various luci-ssl metapackages would pull that in.
It should but it is not.
I simply include "luci-ssl" in my diffconfig but my build manifests clearly show it's not being included. I'll have to look into why later. I'm sure there's already a bug for it. There's a ton of google results on this issue. It's well-known.
Bug confirmed and will be fixed in the next release, which should be out in a few days. I am going to start the build tonight if I have time.
You will need to install the packages luci-app-opkg and luci-app-attendedsysupgrade on the shell. Just do get a shell and do "opkg update ; opkg install luci-app-opkg luci-app-attendedsysupgrade" and then maybe reboot if needed.
Here's the change which caused this:
commit 34dee82f29af74d6dee0616cc52a7b9e4f51d9f6
Author: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Oct 24 14:57:47 2022 +0200
luci-light: rework and reenable
The `luci` collection contains package management and attended
sysupgrades support, which are not that useful if not even undesired for
self-compiled images.
Rework the `luci-light` collection to exclude the two above mentioned
features, and make `luci` instead depend on the light collection in
additon to those features.
The `luci-ssl` and `luci-ssl-openssl` collections then only need
to depend on `luci-light`.
We now have three variants with won't pull in `luci-app-opkg` or
`luci-app-attendedsysupgrade`, making everybody happy.
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
A new build is available for OpenWRT 23.05.4
https://jmomo.net/files/openwrt/TRENDnet_TEW-827DRU_20240719221458_OpenWRT_v23.05.4_luci/bin/
This build, and future builds, now includes luci-app-opkg and luci-app-attendedsysupgrade.
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Ty so much jmomo, works fine and pretty stable, the only thing my speed is reduced to 50%, or like @labeleen said to 200mb.
Is there a way to fix it or maybe some configuration Im missing?
Maybe I should do a fresh install, Im coming from the 21 version.
PS: Im not on crack, yet...
I don't have specific advice or configuration for this device. That's because, in regards to network performance, there is nothing unique about the tew827dru compared to other OpenWRT ipq806x devices.
Also, I just don't have time to help people troubleshoot.
My objective is to provide a usable device image which is as basic as possible, just like the official OpenWRT images, so I keep things simple and basic as possible.
The one thing I would advise is the installation of irqbalance, since this is a multi-CPU device, but that only helps in certain conditions. This should really be a build dependency for all ipq806x devices, but it is not.
It is rare that OpenWRT is able to meet or exceed OEM performance, because the community doesn't always have all of the specifications and information needed to make drivers that work perfectly with the hardware.
The big problem with this platform is the NSS drivers, but that only affects certain performance metrics. Google "IPQ806x NSS Drivers" for more info.
There's a lot of possible things which could cause sub-optimal networking performance for wired, wireless, NAT, firewall, and CPU/memory performance. However, all of those things are standard to OpenWRT and not specific for this device, so feel free to google around or ask for help on the main forum.
Good luck.
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