when I try to run a speedtest via 2.4GHz (connected to a mobile phone of mine) using nperf.com . The 2.4GHz WiFi and 5GHz Wifi become unresponsive and the Syslog is filled with this:
Try disabling of the newly added 2.4ghz option Legacy Rates (11b). Turning this off improves latency and speed by a great amount. BrainSlayer has dome a few more changes with this setting since this release but so far disabling this setting has made my 2.4ghz usable again. _________________ - Linksys EA8500: I-Gateway, WAP/VAP 5ghz only. Features: VLANs, Samba, WG, Entware - r60xxx
- Linksys EA8500: 802.11s Secondary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: 802.11s Primary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz. 2.4ghz WAP/VAP only - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: (WAP/VAP (7)) Multiple VLANs over single trunk port. Entware/Samba r60xxx
- Linksys MR7350: WDS Station for extended Ethernet r60xxx
- Linksys MR7500, MX8500: None in production. Just testing. r60xxx
- OSes: Fedora 40, 10 RPis (2,3,4,5), 23 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '95, never having owned a Windows PC.
- Forum member #248
Disabling this setting makes the nperf test last until the end of the downstream, during upstreamtest the error reappears and wifi becomes unresponsive again.
Found another Error in Syslog:
Code:
Jan 7 19:43:11.460 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 234.791072] ath11k c000000.wifi: failed to flush transmit queue, data pkts pending 8192
Also other devices in 5 GHz WiFi get yeeted of the WiFi when they try to access a stream or traffic heavy websites. One android tablet (Blackview Tab 12 Pro) gets instantly kicked out of Wifi when trying to access load heavy websites, router complains over missing ACKs in this case and stops any traffic towards the device.
I went ahead and disabled "Disassoc Low ACK" setting, resulting in no complaining about missing ACKs in log anymore.
BUT the device still instantly looses access if trying to access anything bigger than a few KB over WiFi.
An older Sony Tablet (Z3 Compact) looses connection to the router after a few minutes during watching a stream.
In both cases the devices arent able to reconnect. Adding 2.4G WiFi in their settings and trying to connect to this wifi does result in them trying to connect but never being successful.
Rebooting the Linksys does solve this, until the problem is triggered again.
My mobile (Nothing Phone 2a) does work on 2.4G WiFi until it starts heavy load (e.g. mentioned nperf test). After this the "num_max_allowed overflow" error reappears.
When I connect this device to 5G WiFi and start mentioned test, the error is also given.
In both cases WiFi isnt working for this device anymore, it can not reconnect to router anymore. The router needs to be rebooted first.
nvram erase && reboot and a "skeleton" config, only connecting one device does result in the device working ok.
No problems at all even under load.
Since I also added a 2.4GHz VAP for my tasmota devices (quite a bunch of them) It might be related to them? Hard to test here, since I have no idea how to test those devices.
Since there are some interesting commits regarding legacy Rates and flushing of a buffer (seems to be related to above error) I'll stop testing here and wait for the upcoming release.
In the meantime, back to Netear r7800 it is sadly.
[edit]
Before I moved furniture again to reinstall the old router, I thought "maybe this has something to do with the Shortcut Forwarding Engine and QCA NSS Subsystem Setting".
Since SFE was only good for trouble on all previous devices of mine I disabled it when setting the device up for my usage yesterday.
But after nvram erase SFE is selected and the QCA NSS Subsystem is enabled again, so I figured, why not test it?
My findings so far:
--> Nothing Phone 2a stays connected and reaches maximum performance on WiFi
--> Blackview Tab 12 pro does not get yeeted of the WiFi instantly anymore, still load heavy tests get interrupted and device cannot reconnect anymore. Also this new message appeared in Syslog (this is the MAC of Blackview Tab 12 pro):
Code:
Jan 8 08:59:42.279 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 637.965041] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:00:00.464 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 656.149563] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:00:10.363 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 666.049068] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:00:17.326 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 673.012074] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:00:36.577 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 692.263207] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:00:42.314 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 697.999493] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:00:55.009 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 710.695221] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:01:18.359 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 734.045057] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:01:32.283 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 747.968946] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:01:40.065 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 755.751383] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:01:44.295 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 759.980600] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:01:48.257 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 763.943423] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:07.234 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 782.919718] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:11.776 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 787.461975] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:24.121 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 799.806802] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:28.213 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 803.898668] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:33.723 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 809.408968] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:47.241 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 822.927318] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:52.155 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 827.840791] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:02:57.070 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 832.756283] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:03:02.262 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 837.948041] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:03:10.073 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 845.758827] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Jan 8 09:03:17.591 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 853.277122] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA 40:45:da:23:6c:4e
Router/Version: R7800
File/Kernel: DD-WRT v3.0-r58976 std (01/03/25)
Previous/Reset: forgot / no
Mode/Status: Running for about 4 days.
Issues/Errors: A strange thing I noticed is that 5GHz devices would not connect but after some while they did.
I always leave SFE Enable because otherwise you don't test the spontaneous reboots with these builds.
For the last 10 builds or so where running about 8 to 9 days till a reboot accur. _________________ Regards,
Vaako
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1x Netgear R7000 Nighthawk r36410
1x Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro DD-WRT r23204 std (12/24/13)
1x Asus RT-N16 SVN revision 20675 NEWD-2 K2.6
1x Linksys E4200 v3.0 r34777 mega (01/31/18 )
1x Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH B0 B0 Gargoyle FW
1x Linksys WRT600N v1.1 (Bricked)
1x Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 (DD-WRT 26446)
1x Linksys WRT54GS v2.2 (DD-WRT 26446)
1x Linksys RVS4000 (stock fw)
3x D-Link DWL-7100AP (openWRT)
2x TP-Link TL-WA801ND (Bridge mode) 100mW TX-Power
Asus WL-520GU SVN 16403M NEWD-2 Eko std-nokaid
4x Fonera with Gargoyle FW
This new legacy rate is suppose to be for the 2.4ghz radios only, and the setting for it only appears under the 2.4ghz WebUI settings. HOWEVER, it also creates it in NVRAM for the 5ghz radio and not only does it create it, it enables it!
Is this detrimental? No idea. I would think it would simply get ignored, but I cannot prove it. You can only disable it with the nvram command. Note that you cannot completely remove it, it comes back after a reboot, but you can set it to zero. Try this and see if it makes any difference.
As stated above also enabling "QCA NSS Subsystem" fixed the 2.4G Problems completly.
The "spurious quick kickout" is still a problem for some devices at 5GHz (see report in yesterdays release thread).
Unfortunately AC only, AC / N mixed or AX / AC / N mixed still does not work for all devices.
SOME devices receive an IP and can connect to web, but Download througput (Router --> Device) is abysmal or 0.
Upload Device --> Router is where it should be ~3xx Mbit/s.
Tested with iperf3 or nperf.
I can only guess, the "Spurious quick kickout" message appears as soon as I try to test througput Router --> device.
Code:
Jan 10 13:57:34.113 MR7350 kern.warn kernel: [ 193.353233] ath11k c000000.wifi: Spurious quick kickout for STA a6:24:24:b4:cd:4e
My Nothing Phone 2a has no problems at all, it reaches 5xx Mbit/s throughput in AC/N mixed mode.
No errors for this device in Syslog.
But all devices are working flawless on Netgear R7800.
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