OpenWRT Wireless Issues on Cudy WR1300

mattbrian

mattbrian

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Hello,

I’ve recently started using OpenWRT on my Cudy WR1300 router. I’ve encountered major wireless problems where an area of the house (that used to have stable wireless) has been very unstable on the OpenWRT firmware (wireless keeps disappearing in the certain area). I downloaded the OpenWRT firmware from the official Cudy website.

When I flash the Cudy router back to its original firmware, the area I struggled with has no more wireless issues. My wireless connection is solid.

I stay in a small granny flat that has a lounge area (where the router resides) and my bedroom (where I keep losing wireless). The router is just around the corner, about 5 metres away.

I’m purely using the device as my edge router and wireless station.

I’ve ensured there’s no wireless interference and channel over utilisation, and I’ve set the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands to max power.

While running the OpenWRT firmware; when in the lounge area, where the router is located, the wireless performance is perfectly fine, but when I go into my bedroom, it’s extremely intermittent. It’s as if the wireless strength is poor or degraded, because my client devices keep losing wireless (SSID simply disappears).

Is there a simple tick box under the wireless settings I could be missing, or perhaps incompatibility between the firmware and the device? Thoughts?
 
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Check the transmit power of the wireless adapter and then check the country code, it could be set to a region that allows less power.
 
mattbrian said:
Hello,

I’ve recently started using OpenWRT on my Cudy WR1300 router. I’ve encountered major wireless problems where an area of the house (that used to have stable wireless) has been very unstable on the OpenWRT firmware (wireless keeps disappearing in the certain area). I downloaded the OpenWRT firmware from the official Cudy website.

When I flash the Cudy router back to its original firmware, the area I struggled with has no more wireless issues. My wireless connection is solid.

I stay in a small granny flat that has a lounge area (where the router resides) and my bedroom (where I keep losing wireless). The router is just around the corner, about 5 metres away.

I’m purely using the device as my edge router and wireless station.

I’ve ensured there’s no wireless interference and channel over utilisation, and I’ve set the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands to max power.

While running the OpenWRT firmware; when in the lounge area, where the router is located, the wireless performance is perfectly fine, but when I go into my bedroom, it’s extremely intermittent. It’s as if the wireless strength is poor or degraded, because my client devices keep losing wireless (SSID simply disappears).

Is there a simple tick box under the wireless settings I could be missing, or perhaps incompatibility between the firmware and the device? Thoughts?
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Too much power doesn't mean better performance. TBH I never liked the cudy series at all. Reyee on the other hand I have had a lot of good performance without flashing the firmware. However is your bedroom the only spot in the flat that has this issue? Might be building related, too many wires in the wall or if it's concrete then that would be why. But I doubt it. Had lots of problem on the Cudy units.
 
HartsockZA said:
Too much power doesn't mean better performance. TBH I never liked the cudy series at all. Reyee on the other hand I have had a lot of good performance without flashing the firmware. However is your bedroom the only spot in the flat that has this issue? Might be building related, too many wires in the wall or if it's concrete then that would be why. But I doubt it. Had lots of problem on the Cudy units.
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Yeah.. I’m going to just assume it’s a compatibility issue with the Cudy. I walk more than 4m away with line of site and the wireless disconnects. I’m using a MikroTik now running OpenWRT and there’s no issues.

Definitely a firmware issue, since using its standard firmware doesn’t have any issues.
 
mattbrian said:
Yeah.. I’m going to just assume it’s a compatibility issue with the Cudy. I walk more than 4m away with line of site and the wireless disconnects. I’m using a MikroTik now running OpenWRT and there’s no issues.

Definitely a firmware issue, since using its standard firmware doesn’t have any issues.
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So if the OG FW is fine, why you you want to use the OpenWRT firmware?
 
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