The official OpenWRT router thread

[Zurg]

It's also super unreliable unfortunately.

Are you speaking about SQM or OpenWrt?

 

[Zurg]

QOS in general...

Could you provide some context as to why you think that?

 

[Peon]

Could you provide some context as to why you think that?

Also curious.

 

[Peon]

Unless things have changed, QOS uses inaccurate methods to schedule packets - in some cases it's applied per connection and not per IP. I ran it in an office of around 10 people and had very mixed results and got the same feedback from others trying to do the same thing. I've used Tomato, DD-WRT and RouterOS. The results were good for some things but it borked other apps.

If I may ask, what version of RouterOS did you use? And what type of queues did you use?

 

[Zurg]

Interesting, well depending on how long ago this was I think things may have changed, depending on the router spec I would say to check the cpu load as well. I've seen qos give issues and turned out that the cpu was just not up to the task.

Also there is different queue scripts you can use.

Now you may be right in the sense that the setup you were working with at the time was not adequate for that office, in my personal experience though I find that it works really well, below you can see the setup, I did two speedtests to saturate the line even while other people are using it via wifi and my ping was unaffected, Youtube and Netflix, Outlook and whatsapp was also not affected by this, perhaps things have gotten a little better or maybe the speed you were working with was not sufficient?

 

[Peon]

It's been a while... like 10 years, so it's very likely things have improved dramatically. My experience at the time though was meh...

Around 2010-2011 I would agree. I could label it as 'clunky'. I do feel the price of MT hardware and Queue management alone is not bad currently. We wont talk about other stuff of MT but Queue management is not bad, PfSense does the other stuff.

 

[andreasrza]

I want to upgrade to 19.xx due to some performance enhancements they made for 5ghz WiFi.

I'm on a snapshot at the moment, device info here:

[OpenWrt Wiki] Techdata: TP-Link Archer C20 v5

openwrt.org

Will I be able to upgrade to the latest stable release from my snapshot?

Did you come right with your TP-Link c20 v5?
The GiT Comment states you can do a web ui upgrade. But from personal experience, TP-Link entry models usually only respond to recovery flash over TFTP.

at the bottom, they give you juicy info about target divces. So you could download a openers image builder for llnux, and build your own system.

i have worked with the c20 v4, and battled with a custom image for the C5 v4, which turned out to be quite a nice build, provided you mount a usb drive, and have it act as a swap, and /overlay/ mount, as the resources on C5 are low.

the best to-link for openwrt in my experience is the C7-C9.

I want to upgrade to 19.xx due to some performance enhancements they made for 5ghz WiFi.

I'm on a snapshot at the moment, device info here:

[OpenWrt Wiki] Techdata: TP-Link Archer C20 v5

openwrt.org

Will I be able to upgrade to the latest stable release from my s

 

[blaaislaai]

@andreasrza

I think I did yes; Was running openWRT nicely, but a few months later I upgraded to a gigabit router.
Still have the TP-Link here somewhere stashed in a box in the garage.

 

[Gimli_]

Hope someone here can offer a bit of wisdom. My usecase is:

- I have an existing pfsense router
- I use an old DLink DIR-825 as an access point
- I want to replace the DLink with a wifi mesh with the following features:
- mesh must still be behind my pfsense router
- mesh must be controlled by one of those wifi ap's, but DHCP is on pfsense
- the backhaul between the mesh nodes will be wifi, not ethernet (except of course the mesh host node)
- I want to be able to have a guest and IOT wifi network that runs on separate VLANs so I can separate them in the firewall.
- wifi6 will be a bonus, not a must


- I was thinking this would be possible using OpenWRT
- After looking at current mesh systems (Deco and AX3) I think they are limited in their functions and OpenWRT aren't supported on them.

Could you please confirm if this will be possible on OpenWRT, and secondly which the best bang for my buck routers/access points would be to buy that will support OpenWRT with mesh

Thanks for the help

 

[andreasrza]

@andreasrza

I think I did yes; Was running openWRT nicely, but a few months later I upgraded to a gigabit router.

@andreasrza

I think I did yes; Was running openWRT nicely, but a few months later I upgraded to a gigabit router.
Still have the TP-Link here somewhere stashed in a box in the garage.

Still have the TP-Link here somewhere stashed in a box in the garage.

When some ”contributors” on the OpenWRT forum say a router isnt supported because of the SoC, I laugh. The guiding principle of GNU/Linux and OpenWRT’s toolchain is to be patched. So any device that supplies drivers for the Router can be patched. In this case it’s the WiFI SoC dhipset.

i have patched a the source-code on GitHub. I have also released v21.02.1 for the TP-Link C5 v4. The firmware includes support for exroot USB devices. So, you could essentially plug in a 8gig USB thumb drive in the back of the router and never worry about resources again. It essentially acts as part of the routers resources.

have a look: https://github.com/andreasrsa/OpenWRT-Archer-C5
My GitHub

 

[r00igev@@r]

When some ”contributors” on the OpenWRT forum say a router isnt supported because of the SoC, I laugh. The guiding principle of GNU/Linux and OpenWRT’s toolchain is to be patched. So any device that supplies drivers for the Router can be patched. In this case it’s the WiFI SoC dhipset.

i have patched a the source-code on GitHub. I have also released v21.02.1 for the TP-Link C5 v4. The firmware includes support for exroot USB devices. So, you could essentially plug in a 8gig USB thumb drive in the back of the router and never worry about resources again. It essentially acts as part of the routers resources.

have a look: https://github.com/andreasrsa/OpenWRT-Archer-C5
My GitHub

Brilliant!

 

[stepper]

Can anybody recommend a cheap (less than R800) affordable OpenWRT compatible router? AM currently using TP-Link MR200 and it's time to retire it.

 

[ryan10]

[OpenWrt Wiki] OpenWrt 22.03.0 - First Stable Release - 6 September 2022

openwrt.org

 

[Soul Assassin]

It's probably sacrilege but I flashed my MikroTik hAP ac² with OpenWrt and I'm having a great time, all the packages you can install to extend functionality etc, very cool.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I'm so sad now I didn't buy one of those fallen off the back of the truck Vox MikroTiks on Takealot that time to have a second one as an AP in the lounge.

 

[Gravedigger]

I ported/built a OpenWRT image for a Fortinet FAP321C.

EOLed 2018. Found one in the trash, still working today. 3x3 MIMO, both 2.4 and 5GHz.
Gigabit phy with POE.

OEM firmware was useless, wanted a separate wireless controller.

 

[ryan10]

Current Stable Release - OpenWrt 22.03.4

Release v22.03.4 · openwrt/openwrt

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github.com

Working well on my RPi4 and 2x Unifi U6 Lite

 

[ryan10]

I'm so sad now I didn't buy one of those fallen off the back of the truck Vox MikroTiks on Takealot that time to have a second one as an AP in the lounge.

Hi, I have a hAP ac2 with OpenWrt for sale. PM if you are interested.

 

[r00igev@@r]

I ported/built a OpenWRT image for a Fortinet FAP321C.

EOLed 2018. Found one in the trash, still working today. 3x3 MIMO, both 2.4 and 5GHz.
Gigabit phy with POE.

OEM firmware was useless, wanted a separate wireless controller.

Never realized there was a decent use for a Fortinet!!!

 

[Gravedigger]

Never realized there was a decent use for a Fortinet!!!

The power of Open-Source, boet.