ZTE MF281 Wi-Fi throughuput and firmware dump

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Hi,

Does anyone have a stock firmware dump from ZTE MF281 (aka Telekom Speedbox 2)?

I've got one unit (huge thanks @blocktrron!), and I noticed, that Wi-Fi performance in uplink (device towards AP) suffers the same way, as it does for MF286A/R and MF286C. So, I wanted to extract board file for QCA9888 from it, and submit it upstream, to fix that.

Results in uplink:

[  5] local 10.0.0.25 port 54198 connected to 10.0.0.164 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0    658 KBytes       
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  21.2 MBytes   178 Mbits/sec    0    689 KBytes       
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0    771 KBytes       
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  27.5 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0    912 KBytes       
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0    964 KBytes       
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0    964 KBytes       
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   1.04 MBytes       
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  28.8 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec    0   1.04 MBytes       
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  30.0 MBytes   252 Mbits/sec    0   1.04 MBytes       
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  23.8 MBytes   199 Mbits/sec    0   1.04 MBytes       
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   275 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   272 MBytes   228 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Results in downlink:

Reverse mode, remote host gigabyte-b550m is sending
[  5] local 10.0.0.25 port 54104 connected to 10.0.0.164 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  35.1 MBytes   294 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  42.5 MBytes   356 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  40.7 MBytes   341 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  43.4 MBytes   364 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  43.8 MBytes   368 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  41.6 MBytes   349 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  43.8 MBytes   367 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  44.2 MBytes   371 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  44.1 MBytes   370 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  41.3 MBytes   346 Mbits/sec                  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   423 MBytes   355 Mbits/sec  208             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   420 MBytes   353 Mbits/sec                  receiver

So, very similar behaviour to MF286A and MF286R. UL throughput is about 2/3 that of downlink.

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let's check with @makeratschool they might actually have it hooked up already.

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@blocktrron did dig it out for me, and it turned out, that same BDF as in MF286C is in use.

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