Hi David,

Does your build use this wrt1200ac repo?

github.com/zhouruixi/WRT1200AC_LEDE_source

LEDE firewall includes time-based per-host restrictions by default (allowed/forbidden times per host, but no restrictions on durations are available). And there is even LuCI support for that as "traffic rules", so there is no explicit need for that add-on from k-szuster.

For blocking certain sites/domains, just install adblock (and luci-app-adblock).

I don't believe I have seen anyone mention these in any openwrt or LEDE thread ever.  Honestly I didn't know they existed until I saw them on a one day sale on Amazon last week.

I got a great deal on them ($20 normally $45 for 2, $65 for 4), and while they might look ridiculously big, they certainly work well.  Linksys claims 7dBi (5GHz) and 4dBi (2.4GHz) vs 3.5dBi and 2.5dBi, respectively (which translates to 2x antenna gain at 5GHz and 1.5x gain at 2.4GHz), compared to the stock antennas.  Model number: WRT002ANT (or if you have any model besides the 1200AC, WRT004ANT (for 4 antennas)).

Attention: Public Service Advisory:

To those who have changed their distros to point to the LEDE snapshot server in order to get the latest version of packages between @david's releases, please be sure to enter the following command line before upgrading any more packages.  The updates for these were released yesterday I believe; they are pre-reqs for one another; and if you update any or all of them, the router gets stuck in a boot-loop and/or won't boot fully (trust me, I learned from experience.  Luckily I was able to download the original versions from @david's distro using my cell-phone as a wifi hotspot, put the router into recovery mode, use winscp to push them onto the router, and install them using opkg --force-downgrade).

opkg flag hold netifd procd libubox libjson-script jshn

This way if you are using the script or command which updates all available packages, it won't update these and soft-brick your router.

That is all.

Hey, great info!! I'm sure I'm suffering from gain loss due to the construction techniques used down here in Chile ( we build everyhing in concrete due to being a heartquake active country ) ... so I guess going with this linksys high gain antennas will help!

I have a WRT1900ACS v2 ... should I replace 2 of the antennas , or the 4 of them?

I found this on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss … WRT004ANT+

Thanks in advance for your advice.

starcms wrote:

Attention: Public Service Advisory:

To those who have changed their distros to point to the LEDE snapshot server in order to get the latest version of packages between @david's releases, please be sure to enter the following command line before upgrading any more packages.  The updates for these were released yesterday I believe; they are pre-reqs for one another; and if you update any or all of them, the router gets stuck in a boot-loop and/or won't boot fully (trust me, I learned from experience.  Luckily I was able to download the original versions from @david's distro using my cell-phone as a wifi hotspot, put the router into recovery mode, use winscp to push them onto the router, and install them using opkg --force-downgrade).

opkg flag hold netifd procd libubox libjson-script jshn

This way if you are using the script or command which updates all available packages, it won't update these and soft-brick your router.

That is all.

@starcms ... i saw libmbedtls appearing in the list of upgradable packages and I holded it just in case... should I?

starcms wrote:

I don't believe I have seen anyone mention these in any openwrt or LEDE thread ever.  Honestly I didn't know they existed until I saw them on a one day sale on Amazon last week.

I got a great deal on them ($20 normally $45 for 2, $65 for 4), and while they might look ridiculously big, they certainly work well.  Linksys claims 7dBi (5GHz) and 4dBi (2.4GHz) vs 3.5dBi and 2.5dBi, respectively (which translates to 2x antenna gain at 5GHz and 1.5x gain at 2.4GHz), compared to the stock antennas.  Model number: WRT002ANT (or if you have any model besides the 1200AC, WRT004ANT (for 4 antennas)).

Hey, great info!! I'm sure I'm suffering from gain loss due to the construction techniques used down here in Chile ( we build everyhing in concrete due to being a heartquake active country ) ... so I guess going with this linksys high gain antennas will help!

I have a WRT1900ACS v2 ... should I replace 2 of the antennas , or the 4 of them?

I found this on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss … WRT004ANT+

Thanks in advance for your advice.

mariano.silva wrote:

starcms wrote:

I don't believe I have seen anyone mention these in any openwrt or LEDE thread ever.  Honestly I didn't know they existed until I saw them on a one day sale on Amazon last week.

Hey, great info!! I'm sure I'm suffering from gain loss due to the construction techniques used down here in Chile ( we build everyhing in concrete due to being a heartquake active country ) ... so I guess going with this linksys high gain antennas will help!

I have a WRT1900ACS v2 ... should I replace 2 of the antennas , or the 4 of them?

I found this on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss … WRT004ANT+

Thanks in advance for your advice.

You need the 4 pack (WRT004ANT).  Only the 1200AC uses the 2 pack because it only has 2 antennae

Edit: And remember what I said in my first post.  The high-gain antennae will only work properly if you only need coverage on one floor of a house (so if you have live in a one story house or apartment, you're fine).  The higher the gain, the more horizontal they broadcast (see the third pic I had attached to my original post).  You should also have all 4 pointing straight up.

starcms wrote:

mariano.silva wrote:

Hey, great info!! I'm sure I'm suffering from gain loss due to the construction techniques used down here in Chile ( we build everyhing in concrete due to being a heartquake active country ) ... so I guess going with this linksys high gain antennas will help!

I have a WRT1900ACS v2 ... should I replace 2 of the antennas , or the 4 of them?

I found this on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss … WRT004ANT+

Thanks in advance for your advice.

You need the 4 pack (WRT004ANT).  Only the 1200AC uses the 2 pack because it only has 2 antennae

Edit: And remember what I said in my first post.  The high-gain antennae will only work properly if you only need coverage on one floor of a house (so if you have live in a one story house or apartment, you're fine).  The higher the gain, the more horizontal they broadcast (see the third pic I had attached to my original post).  You should also have all 4 pointing straight up.

Got it, yeap.... what if i just purchase 2 and leave 2 "low gain" and 2 "high gain" antennas installed? Will I have "some" better coverage in the same floor, and a little less on the upper floors? Sorry, but my software engineering degree didn't go into too much depth on electromagnetic radiations theory

New build r4470 on Kernel 4.9.34 has just been uploaded to the server.

This build was built with a new AMD Ryzen system which so far has been pretty sweet with how fast it can crank out a new build.... This last build for everything was 18 minutes... which is completely insane, considering my AMD 1090T 6 core processor would do it in 5 hours... lol 

I guess I'll go ahead and do the 4.4.x kernel now. I have time

*EDIT*

I'm thinking the last build didn't have to make everything because the 4.4.x is taking a lot longer.  So, 18 minutes must not be accurate. It was accurate in a sense of how long it too, but there must have been packages already compiled.

davidc502 wrote:

New build r4470 on Kernel 4.9.34 has just been uploaded to the server.

This build was built with a new AMD Ryzen system which so far has been pretty sweet with how fast it can crank out a new build.... This last build for everything was 18 minutes... which is completely insane, considering my AMD 1090T 6 core processor would do it in 5 hours... lol 

I guess I'll go ahead and do the 4.4.x kernel now. I have time

*EDIT*

I'm thinking the last build didn't have to make everything because the 4.4.x is taking a lot longer.  So, 18 minutes must not be accurate. It was accurate in a sense of how long it too, but there must have been packages already compiled.

That's incredible about the AMD Ryzen.  How many cores?  I've only read about them; haven't gotten a chance to use one yet. 

I'll try the new build shortly and report back.

[Or it could bomb out completely and work like crap

I'm also seeing this oddness in my log with the new build:

Wed Jun 28 23:33:43 2017 user.err kernel: [    8.076638] procd: cannot set group tty for /dev/ttyS11

@david, new build (r4470) is working great.  However, when you built dnscrypt-proxy, I believe you forgot to enable plugins.  I am seeing this in log:

Wed Jun 28 23:34:57 2017 user.warn dnscrypt-proxy: dnscrypt-proxy plugins support not present, ignoring block_ipv6 parameter...
Wed Jun 28 23:34:57 2017 user.warn dnscrypt-proxy: dnscrypt-proxy plugins support not present, ignoring blacklist parameter...
Wed Jun 28 23:34:57 2017 daemon.notice dnscrypt-proxy[4880]: dnscrypt-proxy Starting dnscrypt-proxy 1.9.5
Wed Jun 28 23:34:57 2017 daemon.notice dnscrypt-proxy[4880]: dnscrypt-proxy Proxying from 127.0.0.1:5353 to 107.181.168.52:443

It honestly doesn't affect me, but I know some of your users do use some of the dnscrypt plugins.

Edit: And the .ipk, which is the same version as in version r4323 (your last build), has shrunk from 78K to 75K.

If anyone needs plugins, they can simply install the .ipk from @david's repo from version r4323:

opkg install http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r4323/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/packages/dnscrypt-proxy_1.9.5-4_arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3.ipk --force-reinstall

Short story:  WRT3200ACM running newest build r4470, getting dropouts on 2.4Ghz.
System log shows many
Thu Jun 29 12:43:14 2017 kern.err kernel: [31847.775567] ieee80211 phy1: buffer is NULL for tx done ring
Thu Jun 29 12:43:14 2017 kern.err kernel: [31847.784368] ieee80211 phy1: buffer is NULL for tx done ring
Thu Jun 29 12:43:14 2017 kern.err kernel: [31847.789972] ieee80211 phy1: buffer is NULL for tx done ring

Disabling phy1/2.4Ghz and re-enabling does not resolve, it gets same errors before and after.
Power off/back on does resolve it.

Long story:  I was on stock Linksys firmware FW_WRT3200ACM_1.0.6.181063_prod.img until about a week ago and was getting intermittent router reboots.  Tried a factory reset, and that seemed to cure the reboots, but would still get intermittent wifi dropout.
I installed LEDE r4323 a week ago, only ran it for about an hour because it gave frequent wifi dropouts.  Went back to stock, and ran that for about a week, still getting intermittent wifi dropouts, a few a day but it would recover so family not too disgruntled.
I saw new LEDE build r4470 yesterday so I popped that on last night, and the frequent wifi dropouts are back, now I have the problem mentioned above.
My changes from stock LEDE config:
Change LAN IP
change timezone
change phy0 and phy1 SSID, channel, security