Hi....
I bought an Xiaomi WR3000T 2 days ago, after spending weeks searching for a future proof router.
The WR3000T was relatively cheap and it has good specs.
I've previously read the installation instructions and yeah.. someone made a tool to exploit and patch and install openwrt.
So I install Openwrt factory using the tool, Openwrt did boot fine but when I first used and configured the settings, I didn't see it was in initramfs mode or something like that, and I realized of this when I moved the router to its final place for now.
The mode is supposed to be used to reflash sysupgrade firmware, so that what I did and unticked all the 2 checkboxes.
Finally, the warning was gone and configured everything again.
So I had to reconfigure it. Went to wireless, configured 2.4ghz network. Works fine.
Then configured 5Ghz and enabled it.
However, the netowrk shows as disabled. Strangely, if I click Scan on radio1, the neighbour 5Ghz networks do show up and if I go back or refresh, the 5Ghz network is no longer saying disabled but it says ---/92dbm.
It seems no one yet wrote about this or I am doing something wrong. There are however people saying 5Ghz was gone after installing 25.12.4.
DFS ?
Post your /etc/config/wireless file.
The contents of /etc/config/wireless is:
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'platform/soc/18000000.wifi'
option band '2g'
option channel '6'
option htmode 'HE40'
option cell_density '0'
option noscan '1'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'Xiaomi'
option encryption 'psk2'
option key 'ilovepepper'
config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'platform/soc/18000000.wifi+1'
option band '5g'
option channel '124'
option htmode 'HE80'
option cell_density '0'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'XIAOMI-5G'
option encryption 'psk2'
option key 'ilovepepper'
Few hours later and trying to fix the problem, it seems to be working now.
Things I did:
- Manually updated all outdated packages, mostly related with LuCI, total of 15.
- I did set the Country to my country and kinda worked and the 5Ghz stopped working after a router reboot, I clicked the Restart at radio1 at intervals, it gone --/-91dBm to --/-92dBm and disabled.
- Changed AX to AC, frequencies, 80<>160, etc.
- Removed the 5Ghz network station, created a new one
- After created a new one, it didn't work ok because the creation page didn't defaulted LAN as source network and I didn't pay attention
- Set the country as well on the new network.
- Clicked few times on the Restart button of radio1 and kept checking if the network appeared and finally got listed and I connected to it.
- Few hours later, rebooted router again via software on OpenWRT and still works, the devices still connected to the 2.4Ghz, I need to change priority or click forget network.
- I shoul've posted full dmesg as well
There are things I still need to take care and one of them is to turn off that LED in the front of the device.. it is obscenely bright.
I wonder why this device gets hotter than a common 10yr laptop at idle. I know it is not a problem with OpenWRT, because the device gets hot even with Xiaomi's firmware.
When the 25.12.5 comes out, I will not keep the settings and see if the problem with 5Ghz comes again.
You should never do this, sooner or later something will break.
Sounds like DFS, radio comes up once the scan's completed.
DFS explained by Asus, https://www.asus.com/en/support/faq/1045936/.
You should be able to see it in the log.
Btw, AFAIK Xiaomi WR3000T doesn't exist.
Oops... my bad about the ax3000t wr3000t confusion... I've spent weeks searching for a cheap router with some future proof and I'm doing many things at same times, that I ended up confusing myself....Sorry about that.
I'm don't know much about DFS but I will read that link you posted. I've asked AI if ax3000t supported DFS and it said yes. Grepping logs don't mention DFS.
You are right about the packages upgrade. My experience is I think I've never had a problem updating LuCI releated packages, but I had a problem when I update netifd or such related package in the past with a different router, which made me reconfigure whole thing again.
After last post until now, I've running speedtests.
A laptop running AC9260 160 Mhz - it is what the driver says on its name - I get near all most of 1Gbps. Windows claims 1.7Gbps on thw wifi status.
With a Samsung A15 4G and a mini PC with QCA9377, OpenWRT says 433Mbps and speeds on both devices is around 300Mbps.
A laptop with MT7921, Windows claims 1.2Gbps, OpenWRT says 1080Mbps and the speed is around 600Mbps. MT7921 is Wifi 6 but appears to only support 80MHz.
Don't trust AI, it's f-ing stupid, DFS support is mandatory in most (all?) countries.
Simply set the channel to auto, wait a couple of minutes for the DFS detection to occur. The device will than choose a free channel.
Thanks. Yeah... setting Auto as frequency channel and waiting a bit, it seems to work. Auto should be the default in the initial settings.