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Thank you for another great video! I very much enjoyed it, especially learning about hardware acceleration & htop monitoring!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your feedback;-)

Very well done, Marc. Clear, sequential, easy-to-understand.

Main problems with these routers - versions. Vendors often start with some nice chipsets, lots of RAM and storage. And over time, without external change, the internals change, the same model suddenly runs completely different HW with much more limited RAM, storage, etc. It happened to me multiple times that I purchased some device listed on OpenWRT as supported, just to find out that supported was Version 4 and I got Version 5 (not listed at the vendor site, of course) and my device is either not yet supported, or even worse, never will be. So, be careful when checking the device, always also check version.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

You are spot on. That's really a big challenge. And unfortunately it drives a lot of people away from OpenWrt because they think OpenWrt is to blame. That's also the main reason why I am so reluctant to do the same video for 2022 - Any time that I "recommend" a router, I have no control what the vendor will do next and potentially steer thousands of people to an unusable device ;-(

@Fulcanelli88

Жыл бұрын

​@@OneMarcFifty Your own isp

SO useful and such a easy to follow/navigate around format! Thank you, subscribed!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Ivan, glad you liked it !!!

Excellent video, very interesting stuff! Thanks for taking the time to post it.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Gurdeep. And thanks for watching.

Thanks !!! You saved my day with the flow offloading setting !!

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I am happy that it was useful!

Great comparison! Cannot wait for the next video.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great job with this video. Very thorough. Thank you!!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

thank you for the really clear explanations. I have paid for courses and not learned anywhere near as much as i learn from you

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the friendly feedback !

Thanks, great video as always! I use a Mirouter 4A Giga that also uses the MediaTek mt7621 and except the 2.4GHz driver it's fantastic. The stability isn't perfect yet, which is why I have a cron job that restarts the router every week. I had some weird stuff happening after 40 days uptime so I thought it might as well reboot every so often to never run into stuff like that, but for just 35€ new it's a steel. Also I think that MU-MIMO is unfortunately not supported in hostapd atm if I'm remembering correctly.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback. I just checked on MU-MIMO and it should be implemented in theory, at least for ath10k and mt7615. I'll double check and test. Maybe hostapd needs some trigger to actually use it...

Excellent video, I was just looking for some sort of performance test (old routers refurbished with Openwrt :P ) and didn't know about the iPerf tool. Thanks

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback! I have been thinking of maybe doing a Toolbox video on iperf3 and another one on htop. Very much like Webmin and Ventoy those are just little helpers I don’t want to miss ;-)

i have been using the wrt3200acm ever since it came out & i absolutely love it

'Preciate the video. One of the things I got out of it was the software page showing the sysupgrade download. Just used it to update my c7

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, many thanks for sharing!

It is now 2024 and I have found a pretty decent router for OpenWRT, which is quite cheap and works stable, fast and power efficent. The TP-Link Archer AX23. Damned easy to convert to OpenWRT. The only little restriction is the small amount of storage (16/128)

Can't wait to see you DIY router build.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

It’s coming ;-)

Excellent work! Thank you Marc…

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Tony!

Thanks for the great video series on openwrt. I love it. Going for a 1GB internet connection now, I verified your test results for my 4 tp-link archer. Great. I had to learn that it makes no sense to install iperf3 on a router. But a warning to all, the DIR-3060 I bought after this video IS NOT SUPPORTED by openwrt. Board design seems to differ a lot, and a trial to port got stuck somehow. Just a warning for all others watching. Next trail, will be an arm-based router board. Marc for your device, have you found a usable port?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Andreas, I am using the DIR-2660 firmware on my DIR-3060 and it works great - just I can't use the 3rd radio, but 2 radios are fine for my use case.

Inglés I have seen this video 4 times and learned some things, I did not even know what iperf3 was, but now I can use this great tool, thank you sir for your knowledge.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks - I am happy you liked it!!!

Marc, well done sir. 1 brief correction for you. The number of antennas you have one your router or AP governs the maximum speed you can go. So in the case where you have a router with 4 antenna, 2 might be used for 2.4G and 2 for 5G, so 2.4G can only go 300Mbps for 802.11N speeds and AC/AX will max out at just under 450Mbps. The next limiting issues are your devices connecting to the router/AP. If the router/AP has 4 antennas and you phone only has 2, you only get 2 streams of MIMO, hence the 300Mbps on your phone. Last but even more importantly, the farthest device (weakest signal) governs the max speed of the whole network. Since Wi-Fi has built in rate fallback functions to keep client devices connect, all devices connected to the router/AP suffer the same fall back. I recommend you turn off the lower speeds in N, turn off 802.11B completely and add a second wired AP (turn off dhcp service and set it’s address statically). I hope this helps and doesn’t confuse to many out there. Yes, wireless is my professional role.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome feedback Dan, many thanks!

@francocastilloAR

Жыл бұрын

It's not quite like that. Some routers are 4x4 on 5GHz and 4x4 on 2.4GHz and have 4 physical antennas instead of 8.

Jesus, I appreciate your hard work to put this comparation together.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks 😉

you explain things really well, good video

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much ;-)

Marc gr8 video. I am still watching videos. It means there is value. The a3 paper works....do you place the ad paper into a storyboard(powerpoint) before shooting ?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Erdem, no - I just start writing ;-)

Thanks a lot sir. Cleared my all doubts. Going for C7 as it suits best for me.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Nitin, glad it helped, many thanks!

This is what I need to start with OpenWrt :) Thank you. Current using TP-link Archer C2 but it show its age now :)

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks - glad it was useful ;-)

Hi Marc, thank you for your work and for this video! Which vdsl modem would you recommend to go with the linksys wrt3200 (I'm in Germany, if that makes a difference)? Thanks a lot!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

I personally use the dsl modem which my provider (Telekom...) gave me - I consider my network to start after the ISP's modem/router.

Nice in-depth review, did not know hardware accelerators existed or made such a difference.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

It depends so much on the hardware being used - the native / stock firmware very often makes use of those but with the free drivers we are very often limited....

@hir3npatel

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Thanks. By the way, if you enable super thanks on your channel, I will send you a super thanks.

Thank's for Great video. What do you think about Netgear x4s r7800?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Looks great ;-)

Brilliant video!

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

Thank you, as my Archer C7 went up in smoke, i got some interesting hints from here. Next will be a Linksys EA7300 with mediatek base.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hi, many thanks for sharing. Let me know how things go.

I love the videos. Could you do an updated video for 2022? Thanks Marc

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for the feedback - I might do one for 2023 ;-)

I bought a second hand WRT1900ACS V2 for €25. It handles gigabit speed with SQM Cake enabled, without software or hardware offloading enabled. Also a good recommendation. The wifi does not support DFS though, but I don't use it myself.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 25 is a bargain ;-)

thanks for the great video sir! May I please know how were you able to power your routers with PoE? was it by injector? thanks again!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Archie, I used to power them with 48V injectors in the past. I have now switched to a PoE Switch and I am using Trendnet TPE-104GS and TP-Link TL-PoE10R as splitters.

Hi Marc. Great material. How do you think of comparison of Archer C7 (v2 or v5) vs Asus RT-N66U (running Merlin LTS or FreshTomato)? The uses I consider are either AP only (5ghz for phone/laptops/TV + 2.4ghz for IoTs), or AP + WAN-LAN routing, with same use. I also wonder if the fairly newer Xiaomi 4A (50% of their price in the used market) is in the similar league as the other two. Internet connection is 100MBits, but likely to upgrade to 300MBits or 600MBits soon.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hi, currently I will be looking at Wifi 6 routers such as the Xiaomi AX3200, AX3600, Redmi AX6000 and the netgear WAX206. Follow up to come shortly. In the meanwhile see the status on my github repo here: github.com/onemarcfifty/mu-mimo-test#test-progress

A very interesting comparison. I learned many things from this video. Thank you!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, glad you could use it ;-)

Really excellent video! I am looking for a router for my soon to be built new house and replace my old but reliable D-Link DIR-655 which I just discovered is not compatible with DD-WRT and maybe the other open source router OSes as well. Rooting routers is a new process for me so I've much research to do and, at the moment, only a cell phone to do it with. I don't know if the 655 can take Open-WRT or not, do you? If it can I plan to use it as a test platform to teach myself how to root routers and get the most out of whatever becomes my next one. Thank you for this very informative video!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn‘t find the DIR-655 in the OpenWrt table of hardware. So I am afraid that it‘s not supported

thx u comrad u allowed me to understand why I had issue with my linksys wireless a true bro !!!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback! I am glad it helped. I remember when I discovered the problem I was so disappointed and was about to throw the device out - glad I kept it ;-)

Great video! keep it up!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks ;-)

Very interesting video even for those like me who have been using Openwrt since Asus WL500gP. BTW I still have a C7 as a spare an a 100Mbps connection at home

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback! I still have my C7's in a box - I will probably use them to build an 802.11s mesh for one of the next Wi-Fi videos and then pull out the ath10K cards in order to build my own router on X86 ;-) kzread.info/dron/G5Ph9Mm6UEQLJJ-kGIC2AQ.html

Perfect video! Thank you🙏🏻

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you ;-)

@user-zr7kz4vs7c

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Do you know how to port forward (port 443) but only allow connection coming from a list of Cloudflare IP addresses, is this possible on OpenWRT?

Great Video

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

For a budget router I can recommend the Xiaomi 4A Gigabit Edition. I've got mine for 15,99 € at Amazon Warehouse Deals. It only has two regular LAN ports, but the WAN port can be configured to be LAN. Flashing OpenWrt is pretty easy with OpenWRTInvasion.

@fifo85

2 жыл бұрын

Here is the thing: I was looking for a router/ap to buy in place of the Archer C7 which is pricey where I live, saw your suggestion, got a Xiaomi 4A Giga for half the price of the C7, flashed OpenWRT and... everything is great! Thank you! May the networking gods smile upon your packets.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, many thanks for the feedback ! Xiaomi comes up quite often as a suggestion - I believe I'll have to have a look at them ;-)

@adrian4jc

2 жыл бұрын

Can I buy 2 or 3 of this to daisy chain? I am sorry I am a newbie on this.

@TheMave95

2 жыл бұрын

@@adrian4jc You can create a mesh with OpenWrt

@adrian4jc

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMave95 many thanks. I have a virgin media router and runs at 200mbps speed. If I successfully flushed it with openwrt, should I just plug this with my existing router and daisy chain this with 2 or 3 XIAOMI routers?

Very thanks !!!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi David, you're welcome;-)

Thanks for wonderful video I really enjoyed 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much - I am happy that you liked it ;-)

Amazing video. Thanks

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much ;-)

Congratulations. Do a review of openwrt and mikrotik and also ubiquiti. Mainly about your installation 911,922, groove metal and others. Also mention using with nanosation ac m5, thank you very much.

Danke. Schönes Video.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Danke - gerne ;-)

great work. thank you

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Excellent video indeed. Thx

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much ;-)

Btw, good idea for testing speed instead of iperf3 (a bit more visual) is to run open speed test on some docker-capable machine in your network.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Great comment Robert, many thanks - I did not know that I could self-host open speed test (until I dug a bit deeper following your comment ;-) )

Hello ! Thank you for the great video ! I compared the specs of Archer C7 and fritzbox 4020 (which I already have), and they are similar except for Wi-Fi. I use access points (unifi) for Wi-Fi, so the quality of Wi-Fi of the router itself is not very important. Would you say that they would perform the same in other respects ? I plan to order VDSL 100 or perhaps 50 from telekom. (perhaps 50 is more stable?) I suppose there are other routers with similar spec. I wonder what makes Archer C7 stick out among them.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi - I can't really comment on the Fritzboxes as I have never owned one ;-( I think what makes the Archer C7 so popular is the compatibility with Linux plus the interesting price point.

@johanna-bapt.martaasaeda9499

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Thank you for your reply ! However I don't really understand it;; If C7 gets OpenWRT, it will be managed by Luci or SSH, so I don't understand what you meant by "compatibility with linux".... And with "price point", did you mean a good cost-performance ? (preiswert) ?

Hi, Marc, I would love to see a video on the NaoPi R4S and R2S!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

I might look into those once prices go down a bit more ;-(

You explained the subject pretty well ! Can you make videos on following topics : 1) Does getting dedicated Access point hardware necessary? 2) PFsense vs OpenWRT

@james48228

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, ive been researching a bit and heres what ive found: 1) getting a dedicated hardware access point is not necessary for most people and just adds unnecessary complexity. Also most of the time they are more expensive than an old router thats put into AP mode 2) pfsense is most of the time ROUTER only and has no wifi capabilities, so an AP is required if you are going to flash something with pfsense. However, pfsense is being phased out with opnsense as there is some controversy with pfsense. meanwhile, openwrt keeps the wifi capabilities of the router.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, many thanks for your comments and feedback. Yes, 90% of the Wi-fi users presumably will never need a dedicated / separate Access point. Unless you have a) a larger area to cover or b) you are interested in DIY and want to learn how to build the stuff yourself or c) you realize that your device saturates on CPU etc. in which case separating router (OpenWrt, RouterOS, PFSense, OPNSense) and Access point (OpenWrt) makes total sense ;-)

Great video, I will try openwrt on my 3200acm!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know how it goes! I've had a hard time in the beginning, but once I sticked to the best practices everything ran smoothly ( I have it running OpenWrt 19.07 for roughly 2 months now)

Great and detail review

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks !

Thank you.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Sven - you're welcome and thank you for watching ;-)

Thanks for the wonderful information, Marc. I didn’t realize you have archer c7/ac1750. I have one as well. Do you have any vids covering vlan setup using this router?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Actually if you check the OpenWrt playlist - all VLAN videos are made on the Archer C7. But things have changed a lot in Version 21. VLAN functionality is not on the switch any more, but rather on the Interface.

@vhm14u2c

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty thanks again, Marc!, I will search…

Awesome comparison thanks

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much;-)

@hamhumtube

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty May I ask why you are not publishing your Patreon or preferably crypto currency receive address? I and surely many others would like to contribute to your lab.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you may - of course. Going larger from a commercial point of view is effectively on my list, but I want to do it right, i.e. with proper planning. That would include affiliate links, where people can purchase the hardware at no additional cost but I would earn a small commission, also patreon and mailing lists are on the plan. Just need to figure out a couple of things such as taxes and data protection plus of course there should be added value to viewers who contribute. I would say it should all come live before the end of the year, but without any impact on the quality of content and visuals. I just had to figure out a couple of mainly technical things first. While the channel is running as it is that still gives me time to experiment with a lot of other things (SEO and the like)

Marc, would you still recommend the D-link DIR-3060 in 2022? Could you please please do a video on this router? Many thanks.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hey Radu, yes - I mean, it's a great device. The only thing that startles me a bit is that there is no MU-MIMO support in the mt76 OpenWrt drivers, even though the proprietary drivers have MU-MIMO support.

Hi Marc, your channel is fantastic thanks. Any chance of a DSA on OpenWRT for dummies video? :-)

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely. Many thanks for the hint. I just recently thought “man, all your VLan videos won’t work any more” when they changed the interface. I’ll make a note of that

@mantaspabarska

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Waiting DSA video on OpenWRT for dummies :) cheers

@OneMarcFifty The real question is will you consult on the best device and will you supply / specify a supplier for it? My budget is three figures for two devices.

I think the title should read: "Which WiFi Router is best for OpenWrt in 2021?" since your suggestion appear to be concentrated around WiFi routers. I personally like the Luxul ABR-4500. Nevertheless, your video is very informative. Thank you!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Good point, many thanks.

I asked the same question below on one of your old O.wrt videos would like to repeat here. I am sure if a competent it person such as yourself chooses O.Wrt over pfsense there is for sure a valid and solid reason. Kindly share it with us. Thanks again

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Copy of the origina answer: "Well, you know - like so often in IT you use what you know - I know Linux and I know OpenWrt - just happened so 😉 I have just never felt the need for anything else. I am tempted to believe that it must be the same for someone who uses pfsense. I do have it on my list though 😉"

@hamhumtube

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty thank you for taking time and putting info here too. Any one who might wonder could find the answer here as well. Regards.

@hamhumtube

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty btw I use neither openwrt nor pfsense. I installed pfsense on docker but much scared to dive into.

Can you do a follow up for 2022/2023? Appreciate all your videos!

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hi Luke, this request has come up a couple of times. I am a bit uncertain about a follow up. The hardware shortage and limited availability of Wifi6 options makes this a real challenge.

Hi Marc, I am new to Openwrt and wifi routers. Been using my ISP provided hardware. I do alot of video streaming on wifi - TV/Entertainment/KZread. I am looking for wifi stability and speed. I was focused on the Linksys wrt32x ac3200, which is how I discovered your channel/video on KZread. Based on your review and some comments on Openwrt forum - wifi can be unstable due to driver issues. Oh, I will be using VPN on the router. I believe this particular model has VPN support with its stock firmware. Have you used this VPN option with stock firmware? Is wifi better/stable by not flashing to Openwrt?

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hi, first off I can’t really confirm that the Wifi (5 GHz) is unstable. I had issues with the 2.4 GHz but since I upgraded to 22rc6 they seem to have gone away. I can’t really comment on stock firmware. I never use stock.

A Very informative and well-composed video. Opens up a lot of valuable information about routers and their inner functionality. So if we take an average router on the market, say Asus, does it mean that they always use a generic CPU and do no background hardware offloading at all, unless this is mentioned somewhere in the GUI as an option? Is there then any benefit of using a router as a box solution vs a software router on a generic CPU and mainboard?

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hi Anton, if there is Offloading or not depends on the Software/Firmware used and the provided hardware capabilities, so hard to say. Open Source like OpenWrt does not really have a choice here quite often because the calls to the Firmware are not always (or even rarely) documented. Whether you run this on embedded hardware or X86 as such depends on the use case. Advantage of the embedded Wi-fi systems is that you get Wi-fi for (relatively) cheap. W/r to Softrouter - depends if you use it on tin (X86) which is just another architecture to use or if you virtualize it (in which case Wi-fi would be difficult to achieve)

You’re the man

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

@nandoscotti4624

2 жыл бұрын

damn right

What do you think about the Xiaomi's Mi 4a Gigabit version? It's an extremely cheap access point/router, and with OpenWRT, I think I can use it with my VDSL modem(on bridge mode) to do both geofirewalling and as a access point. My Internet speed is really terrible(under 50mbps) anyways, so it having a weak hardware doesn't really matter. My friends using the 4a said Openwrt isn't that mature to use daily and they reverted back to factory fw. (ofc i can't expect you to use and test the device but do you think it makes sense to use openwrt on cheap devices basically)

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

The hardware specs look good. However, it is still only supported by the snapshot version, i.e. not really mainstream yet. Also flashing seems to be a bit more complex. It might be advisable to wait until it gets supported by the release version…

@pcislocked

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty thanks for the advice

OpenWrt 19.07 says that the routing/NAT offloading feature is experimental (in the GUI). What is your opinion about the stability of the feature Marc?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Remy, I haven’t used it with 19.07 so can’t really comment on it I am afraid. What I can say is that I use hardware offloading with 21.02 on the D-Link with no issues so far for roughly 2 months now.

@remyzandwijk

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty oh, right. I didn’t see you’re actually using a 21.02 snapshot version. I was mislead by the start of the video, which shows 19.07 :-)

Just got myself a DIR 2660 to replace my Archer C7. Guess I use the Archer as a 2nd a Access Point. Do you prefer Fast Roaming over 802.11s?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it's not really a question of preference - I think if you don't have a wired backend and/or you need to serve Wi-Fi in a HUGE building or a whole street etc.. then 802.11s is definitely the better (and possibly the only) alternative. But I stick to the rule "If you know radio then you use cable" ;-) No seriously - using hard wire where possible is always better - but if it's not possible then 802.11s is perfect. I have planned a video on 802.11s anyhow ;-)

hello there! super interesting. If you know where can I look for, please let me know. Where can I find some "standard" version of the mediatek openwrt compatible, for a router that is not on the supported list of the openwrt site, but has the same hardware specs as one on the list?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Probably easiest if you download the full Table of Hardware (ToH) dump from Openwrt openwrt.org/_media/toh_dump_tab_separated.zip and filter on CPU/Wifi using Excel or Open/Libreoffice

I wouldn't have one device doing all those things because if it breaks then the whole thing collapses. Lets say a raspberry pi4 could be your server and router, with a managed switch and an access point for the wifi, using vlans to separate your domains. You can use the managed switch to route your internet modem into the pi4 and all vlan interface on the pi4. Access point will use the vlans with unmanaged interfaces for each network, bridged with the wireless interfaces. All dhcp will be on the pi4 and you can run pihole for your whole network. Plug a couple of large usb3 drives into the pi for backups and media serving. (One armed router).

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, many thanks for your feedback - yes, you can scale up/down as much as you want - in a nutshell that's the great thing with Open Source and standards - you can design nearly every infrastructure you like at nearly no additional cost ;-)

I am surprised one of your criteria wasn't at least 3 radios for backhaul in a mesh. You may have good reasons for that as I am not as familiar with OpenWRT as many are. I was thinking 4 radios would be best in a mesh but I don't see that in the wifi routers I have looked at recently. If you were doing city scale wifi, then it seems more reasonable to me.

I was just given the Linksys and some mesh routers with wifi6, and I have a 8 port managed switch. I want to run atleast 5 VLans, with 3 wifi networks. I was considering doing this layout. ONT/Modem > openwrt Vlan 1 > dumb switch > all home entertainment eth. Openwrt Vlan 1 > Mesh as AP, for wifi 6 and such. (The 2nd wifi would be a guest & 3rd would be IoT, so would I be able to configure these vlans in wrt, and the AP just broadcasts?) OpenWRT/managed switch/Vlans 4 & 5 Vlan 4/lab Vlan 5/home servers Is this viable? I don't really want to use the router as a AP, just the mesh wifi as APs. Than the switches will handle the direct lines. I figure, if need be, I can run link aggregation to the managed switch, and to the lab & server, although it shouldn't be necessary. My worry is that I won't be able to broadcast multiple ssids for general use, guest, and IoT. Although idk if I'll need it, I'm thinking launching a said for the lab and or home server when/if need be would also be useful. Thoughts?

Hi Marc! Thank you for your time, I always enjoy your videos. 👌👌👌 I've been looking for a kinda powerful router with AX WiFi, at home we have 1Gbps speed and also using it to access remotely for some mini-lab/server personal usage. So, I want the best speeds as I can get from my connection. At home we have 6/6E enabled devices so we want to take advantage of this too. I also want to run WireGuard on the own router, but high bandwidth connection + WireGuard may be a resource hog for "home routers"... If this was your case, would you rather make your own kinda powerful gateway/router like a NanoPi R4S (w/ 2x1Gbps ports) with OpenWRT and install dedicated APs or go for an "all in one" router capable of running WireGuard flawlessly and use WiFi 6 even if it costs more? Thanks!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Actually I have just recently switched to a home made router with a PC Engines APU4D4 board (X86 hardware) - only problem is that I can't find mPCie hardware for Wi-fi 6 that does support Wi-fi6 in Access Point mode (the AX200's don't)...

@JoaquinVacas

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Oh! I may go for 2 UniFi APs running over a PoE switch. But the "router" device I think I'll use some kind of NanoPi R4S or so on. Also APU4D4 looks interesting... Thanks!

@JoaquinVacas

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Oh! I may go for 2 UniFi APs running over a PoE switch. But the "router" device I think I'll use some kind of NanoPi R4S or so on. Also APU4D4 looks interesting... Thanks!

Please make a video about Netgear R7800!

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, it seams that a lot of people are using the Nighthawk R7800 with OpenWrt - and - seriously - it's a great device - Ath10K wifi etc... The reason that I chose those devices to compare was to make people aware of possibilities on how to measure throughput and CPU usage and also show the hardware offloading possibilities for MEdiatek ;-)

this is a very good video. professional

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much !

I came here as I need to replace my Archer V600 with an OpenWRT or DDWRT router. Leaving the Archer to handle the VDSL only. I see you are recommending a TP-Link. However the reason I am replacing the Archer is that it's wifi is unstable, it's fine for a few weeks, then randomly it drops a handful of device, usually those that can't migrate to other APs due to signal. Reboot the archer, it all works again.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

I could not see that happening on the C7. If I remember well the V600 did only have 2.4GHz right ? Alternatively you might want to look for a cheap Mediatek alernative like the Xiaomi Mirouter 4A Gigabit

@1over137

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Thanks. I was mistaken it's a V900 I'm replacing. I think it suffers from memory corruption with high device count. I bought a WRT3200acm and a Draytech VDSL dedicated modem. At the same time I updated my switches to managed and have been following your other videos for OpenWRT to set up a Guest VLAN properly for wired access (work laptop). Your video on VirtualBox was helpful and allowed me to set it up in a lab and play around. That was after locking myself out of the router a few times playing with VLANs :)

@OneMarcFifty Is your Dlink 2660 A1 or A2 version. I was planning to go for this router, but did not go for it as I saw people struggling to install openwrt on a2 version of this router, which presumably I would also get If I ordered online

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

It's an A1 - not sure what you get when you order - but thanks for pointing this out !

I am interrested in listening to your choice of routers in November 2022....are there any new models, which you recommend ?

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Hi, that's something I am thinking about for a long time. There are a lot of things to factor in. Wifi6, GBit Speed and the like. The Belkin RT3200 is a good choice but building your own with X86 is definitely a good option as well.

@edelexport

Жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Thanks...I also considered the Belkin 3200, but its expensive and not easy to get at the moment... I flashed a Xiaomi 4A gigabit edition with OpenWRT using your instruction video, but all of the Mediatek 7603E 2,4Ghz Wifi chips are not working stable. 5Ghz is fine, NAT-speed also fast enough for my 500Mbit/sec WAN. Tested a Cudy WR1300 with the same Mediatek configuration , same unstable, and slow 2,4Ghz network, especially, when transfering Data from my NAS, it´s pure luck, when the data transfer runs until the end, without interrupting or bringing error messages...my problem ist definitvely the Mediatek in combination with Open WRT. It´s also a concern regarding the power consuption. There, the Xiaomi, with under 3 Watts (5Ghz off), is one of the best I tested so far. I would be happy having a low power consuming router with OpenWRT, goes over 500Mbit/sec NAT-speed and has a stable 2,4Ghz Wifi faster than 5MByte/sec.. All other things like Wifi6 are not essential for me using mostly cabled Ethernet....those things would be a bonus for me 🙂 I´m afraid building a X86 system and have a high power consumption, only because there are less and less routers on the market running OpenWRT AND beeing fast AND do not consume too much energy....having not any good alternatives I am running my old Archer C7 Ver5.0 with original or my Archer C7 Ver.2.0 with Open WRT at the moment to have my family peace. Btw. thanks a lot for your videos. I have learned a lot out of them.

Hi there. I've ordered the TP-Link Archer C7 V5, but it arrive as V4. Should I return it or keep it? I don't really care about the 2 usb ports. I see in another OP video about the DIY mesh setup where the archer C7 V5 supports a feature that is needed for the mesh setup. Does the V4 supports it as well? Read online that there is no difference between the V4 and V5 other than the 2 usb ports on the V4. The difference is in the firmware itself was what I read.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Looking at the hardware specs - they seem to be identical so I think you can give it a go

An old PC (x86) and a couple cheap access points works great for me, especially with VPN service.

@OneMarcFifty

Жыл бұрын

Yes - that's definitely a great way to go at the moment given the difficult situation on the hardware market. Older x86 hardware (broken Laptop, Thin client or the like) definitely beat everything else in terms of CPU.

Great video, can you benchmark Archer AC2600? It is a dual core 1400MHz, 512MB RAM

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Khayam, many thanks for the feedback ;-) Unfortunately I do not have a C260 at hand ;-(

I didn't realise the Slingshot Channel was into OpenWRT 🤗

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

I had to search for that on KZread;-) I get it - really funny rofl ;-)

Thanks again not only for your explanations but also for mentioning the possible pitfalls. By the way, I am having 250Mbps download and 40Mbps upload with Raspberry Pi 4 based OpenWrt connected with two (WAN and LAN) 1Gbps ethernets. In general, the speed test gives the exact throughput the 250/40 but the speed test via Wireguard VPN indicates that I am getting nearly 40Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload if I am connecting to the home network from outside with sufficient bandwidth. Do you have any explanation for this phenomenon?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Usually VPN connections from the outside to home are limited by two reasons: The lowest bandwidth over the path to the VPN Server (i.e. it's kind of a "weakest link" scenario) and - on the other hand - CPU capabilities of the VPN Server. You may try a couple of things to investigate further: 1.) Try a different VPN solution where you can switch encryption off just to see the max bandwidth that you can get 2.) if possible monitor CPU on the VPN Server in order to find bottlenecks

@goppinaththurairajah760

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Thank you, this makes sense.

@OneMarcFifty I have a problem with 2 AP in fast roaming 802.11r and WIFI calling service. When I moved from 1 AP coverage to second in the house, wifi calling deactivated and cannot reconnect in new 2 AP coverage. Are there any parameters that can help?

Thanks very much. You mentioned in the video that you will leave the commands to get WRT3200ACM WIFI working in the description. I think you forgot to include it. Would be kind enough to let me know what those commands where. I am currently having issues with WIFI on this router, everything else is working. I know you also mentioned to go back to older version. Just that I have done enough setup of other things that I just cannot undo them all at the moment. I have another WIFI router that is currently doing my WIFI.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Ooops - my bad - in a nutshell, on the command line you can do (XX being your country code): uci set wireless.radio0.country='XX' uci set wireless.radio1.country='XX' uci set wireless.radio2.disabled='1' uci commit Alternatively set the country on each Wifi in the "advanced tab" and disable the radio2

nice, do the usb3 routers have working OpenWrt cheap usb3 r8125 2.5Gbit/s drivers so you can add 2 extra faster ethernet?

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Paul, there is a module (kmod-usb-net-rtl8152) for this but I have not personally tested it.

@paulmaydaynight9925

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty i forget (must check my x86 cards lol) but i think rtl8152 is used for the dual port pcie x1 cards i cant get now rtl8152= dual pcie , *r8125* = usb3 found everywhere still.. there are usb3 & pcie x4 5Gbit/s chips to but double+ the price

I use the Linksys E8450, currently it only supports snapshot releases, but its working perfectly with sysupgrade and everything from what I can tell. The only issue I am having with it is 160MHz does not work.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Can the Linksys not do it or is it maybe your clients not being able to connect to 160 MHz? I’ve had issues with my iPhone connecting to 160 MHz in the past…

@FeralFoxDX

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty I can select 160, LUCI says its working, but no device in my home can see it. I live in a very rural area, so there are no other access points. It wont even show up on any SDR I have setup. Not even my desktop with an intel AX card sees. Stock firmware has it locked at a max of 80Mhz so I assume the card on the router is incapable of it or something. Very odd.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

@@FeralFoxDX i’ve had the same with my iphone and the D-Link so I assumed my iphone can just not handle it. But I would need to test with another router as Wifi client in order to verify.

@FeralFoxDX

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty I see you have purchased the Belkin branded model in some of your newer videos. I forgot to mention until now that I was able to successfully enable 160MHz by changing the country code...I believe the driver prevents it from transmitting unless it's set for a country it is allowed to use that bandwidth in.

Any chance you will use x86 mini pc for router? The price for all in 1 router can get a great spec 2nd hand mini pc. Anyway a new subscriber here :)

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, that is absolutely on my roadmap. I have bought an APU4d mainboard from PCEngines which has an AMD processor and 4 Switch Ports - You are right that if you are looking for router functionality (i.e. no Wi-Fi) a small PC is actually the better solution - but an episode on this should follow in January / February latest

Great review!. Searching this type of info after fighting with my TP-Link TL-WDR3600 + extroot (succesfully solved!). Unfortunately linksys are around 200usd in my country :(

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe have a look at the Belkin Rt3200?

Amazing

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you !

Belkin RT3200 can be had for cheap and works great with openwrt..

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul - yes, I bought one last week ;-) Will make a video on Wifi 6 with OpenWrt soon ;-)

Next topic please. SQM for wan, lan and wifi

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Quality of Serivce is on my list - especially with everyone working from home these days I think it's a big issue.

I run a DIR-882, great speeds and reliability with the RC2. I'll skip RC3 and wait for the full release.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks for sharing

Hello Marc! Thanks for your work. I have TP-link wdr4300 with OpenWRT and old all in one Epson RX600, so print server works fine on OpenWRT, but I can't set up network scanner, tried to set up sane server and ect, but something goes wrong. Could you please explain or make video for everyone? Many thanks.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Wow - I haven't used SANE for at least 20 years ;-) Sorry my knowledge here is more than rusty ;-)

@TheMacky3000

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty Thanks

how do you upgrade MediaTek MT7621AT to OpenWrt 21.0X, maybe you could do a video on upgrading - the dos & don'ts.

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, many thanks for the feedback - I'll need to do something on 21.x Upgrade - defo. The one thing people are struggling most seems to be the changed VLAN / DSA thing ;-)

@AindriuMacGiollaEoin

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty I got it upgraded after some posts on the openwrt forum, lots to learn about openwrt, keep it up!

Very nice

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wish you would've kept this up. It's hard to find a more current router that is being sold to use opnwrt on.

Great... Will use my Archer C7 v5 in combination with my Unifi AP for fast roaming via OpenWRT then

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know how this goes - it's not sure that different products use the same technology here. If you can however enable 802.11r and type in a mobility domain on the Ubiquity then it might work.

@maximusg88

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty what's a mobility domain? :) sorry - I'm a noob... I can certainly enable 802.11r on my ubiqity

@OneMarcFifty

2 жыл бұрын

@@maximusg88 It#s a setting on the Wifi parameters to indicate that different SSIDs belong to the same fast roaming domain - there is a video on this here : kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYGb1ZSRdqbSkbA.html

@maximusg88

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneMarcFifty awesome - thanks :) Will check that out!