Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 3:25 Post subject: Switch from Kong to BS rough for wireless connex. Ideas?
Since the Kong builds are no longer supported, I have switched to BS. But, I am having the same issues I had that caused me to use Kong builds originally.
Wired connections are great. In fact, it appears that the default BS build is faster than Kong wired.
However, I'm having issues with wireless. Either the strength isn't as high or it's just dropping frequently. A wireless Roku that used to work fine in same place is not buffering constantly on movies.
My router is an EA8500. Maybe I need to configure the wireless a little differently in BS compared to Kong?
Any ideas on what steps I can take to troubleshoot and optimize wireless would be greatly appreciated.
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:48 Post subject: Re: Switch from Kong to BS rough for wireless connex. Ideas?
wheaton4prez wrote:
My router is an EA8500. Maybe I need to configure the wireless a little differently in BS compared to Kong?
Any ideas on what steps I can take to troubleshoot and optimize wireless would be greatly appreciated.
You should provide more info, how did you install the BS build, what build is used
Did you reset to factory / erase nvram and create manually a new configuration. Did you check the feedback posts for the build and your router that it is reported as working with the functions you need to use ?
Take note that some of the r41xxx builds may have issues with GUI / Factory Reset and Save function, samba and the WLAN 80 Mhz extension channel settings in the GUI might not match the really applied settings on some builds (changelog states this fixed on lastest builds), so you may play with the 20/40/80 Mhz and channel settings , extension channel setting check this with inSSID for example that the extension channel the router uses matches with the GUI settings.
Take a look here https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=287976&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1740
Last edited by servicetech on Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:37; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 9:41 Post subject:
As @servicetech said take a look at the channel settings not all work well.
Another point, I can remember that BS has recently updated the wireless drivers and I can recall a comment frorm someone that it was nice that he was now using the same drivers as Kong (I am talking about the ath10k drivers, BS has been doing a lot of work on channel settings, regulatory domains and broadcom drivers as well) but I am not 100% sure of this.
I don't have it now but I did have Roku a year back that never missed a beat connected to EA8500.
I do still have two chromecast and they also never miss a beat.
The EA8500 has as good of wireless range as any router you will ever find and like any unit
it should be setup properly for your type connection and wireless clients and whatever else you are doing with it.
Info about your connection type / speed / provider / setup / DD-WRT build, would be helpful so peoples can help you.
Thank you all for this info. Gives me a lot to try.
I should have given more info to begin with:
The build I'm using is 41113.
When I switched from Kong's builds I did a reset (via the firmware upgrade GUI) and re-did all of my settings.
Channel settings, I originally had the default settings for this. I have since changed them to HT40 for ath0 and VHT80 for ath1.
After that (and a few other changes in wireless settings) I was still getting some buffering on the Roku today. But, it was strange, I left the problematic channel and went back to it and the buffering stopped. So, that test might have been some Roku related issue. Need more long-term testing...
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I will upgrade to 41174, apply settings from these guides and follow up with the results.
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:38 Post subject:
the qca wireless settings wiki was fine, but now only parts of it are. its been edited and quite honestly, filled with crap and wrong info. almost as bad as broadcom's wiki, so pick through it with care. _________________ LATEST FIRMWARE(S)
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we just do it since we do not like any restrictions enforced by stupid cocaine snorting managers
I applied the wireless settings recommended in links shared here. It seemed that none of the links were completely up-to-date. So, I tried to take what appeared to me as the most deliberate settings from each.
The result was pretty good. It was a definite improvement from my initial settings.
However, it's still not performing to where it had been when I was using Kong on wireless.
With Kong, I was able to stream 1080p plus quality to Plex (via Roku or Android) without interruption. Now, it seems to be kind of hit and miss. Even on the 5G Android, some 1080p buffer constantly and have to be downgraded to lower qualities to watch.
I am assuming that some codecs or compression cause the server to work a little harder and thus the transmission speed has to be faster to avoid buffering. This never happened on the Kong builds though.
Any advice on specific settings to look at? Or, maybe a more recent settings recommendation to follow?
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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:09 Post subject:
wheaton4prez wrote:
Any advice on specific settings to look at? Or, maybe a more recent settings recommendation to follow?
What wireless mode are you using?
post a picture (760 pixels wide please) of your status>wireless for both radios- so two pictures. _________________ FORUM RULES
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 2:50 Post subject:
It looks like you have a ton of "legacy" devices that are not connecting at N or AC speeds on 5ghz, and 2.4ghz to boot...
this means that you will not get full speeds like you're expecting. At best your actual speeds will be less than half the rate they are connecting to your router at. _________________ FORUM RULES
It looks like you have a ton of "legacy" devices that are not connecting at N or AC speeds on 5ghz, and 2.4ghz to boot...
this means that you will not get full speeds like you're expecting. At best your actual speeds will be less than half the rate they are connecting to your router at.
I believe that most of those are actually N capable devices. Is there something that would cause them to connect at lower "LEGACY" speed?
