Next update. I have mounted a USB drive the most I can get from it is 35 Mbps. Any more ideas? Surely this isn’t the best I can hope for?
The 5G WiFi of AR750S can easily achieve 100+ Mbps without problem. Seems there is something wrong but I am not sure.
The bitrate displayed is only 6mbps. Not sure why.
Are you using repeater or cable in WAN?
Can you ssh to the router and get the following info
ifconfig
I have recently done a factory reset and it made no difference.
It is connected to LAN via gigabit switch.
I have tried in both router mode and AP mode.
The output of ifconfig is:
root@GL-AR750S:~# ifconfig
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:95:6E:45:92:48
inet addr:192.168.8.1 Bcast:192.168.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::e695:6eff:fe45:9248/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: fdf7:17ee:1a23:10::1/60 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2300659 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4619494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6446985449 (6.0 GiB) TX bytes:6196401678 (5.7 GiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:95:6E:45:92:48
inet6 addr: fe80::e695:6eff:fe45:9248/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1876726 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1128872 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2288586757 (2.1 GiB) TX bytes:965574794 (920.8 MiB)
Interrupt:4
eth0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:95:6E:45:92:48
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11397 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:3662064 (3.4 MiB)
eth0.2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:95:6E:45:92:48
inet addr:192.168.0.222 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::e695:6eff:fe45:9248/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1870814 errors:0 dropped:2058 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1112169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2251140112 (2.0 GiB) TX bytes:956355249 (912.0 MiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:51316 (50.1 KiB) TX bytes:51316 (50.1 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:95:6E:45:92:49
inet6 addr: fe80::e695:6eff:fe45:9249/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6119729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4629220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6685424853 (6.2 GiB) TX bytes:6292474797 (5.8 GiB)
Did you disable 2.4G WiFi interfere? There is only wlan0 as WiFi interface.
Yes, no particular reason but I did disable 2.4G.
Can you try to turn off wmm like this post
Hi,danair
5G wifi has a speed of 433M, but the connection between it and your device needs to be negotiated. Can you see what the connection rate between the AR750S and your device is?
Isn’t WMM required for 802.11n, so that disabling it would limit the device to the legacy rates?
You can read that post, some devices especially apple has problems with wmm. So wmm has to be turned off in order for some legacy devices to work properly.
I never had problems with iPhone 6 and iPhone X myself. But iPhone does not have good WiFi chip
433.3 Mbit/s, 80MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 1, Short GI
6.0 Mbit/s, 20MHz
I tried that but it doesn’t make a difference. By the way, I get the same speed from a laptop and iPhone.
Just to add, I’ve run a LAN speed test over another (fast) wireless network against a USB hard drive connected to the AR750S and it’s returning 52Mbps. So it’s definitely a constraint on the AR750S wireless.
Hmm, so you’re not really measuring link throughput, but file-transfer rate to some drive?
You’re then likely limited by CPU, especially if you’re using Samba or some other “heavy” protocol. You’ve got crypto and USB involved, both of which can be CPU intensive.
Let me clarify - my concern is that internet speeds are maxing out at 20 Mbps on wireless 5G band. What I’m demonstrating here is that the limitation is the wireless as it’s giving higher throughput over the LAN.
Are you using Speedtest.net to test speed?
Can you disable IPV6 and try again? OpenWrt Forum Archive
At last, what is your firmware version? Can you upgrade to latest 3.026 without reserving settings and try again? Download the tar file here and upload to the router’s UI->upgrade . GL.iNet download center
Yes speedtest.net for a internet speed test and LAN Speed Test software to test network file speeds over wireless.
I disabled IPV6 and the results are marginally faster but broadly in line with before:
Speedtest.net: 24 Mbps
LAN Speed Test: 34 Mbps
I’m on 3.026 already. I think I preserved settings when I upgraded, should I try a factory reset?
Yes. pls do a factory reset from the UI and disable IPv6 again.
It’s something about your environment or config.
From my AR750S just now, link is over 802.11s with batman-adv routing to an active Linksys EA8300 (IPQ4019/QCA9888, QCA9888 for this link) in a routing situation, client over wired, then routed over 802.11s to server. ath10k (non-CT) drivers and firmware, as the -CT drivers don’t support 802.11s for the Wave 1 chip sets, from what I understand.
Connecting to host 192.168.1.9, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.1.2 port 32964 connected to 192.168.1.9 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 12.1 MBytes 101 Mbits/sec 33 337 KBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 10.7 MBytes 89.7 Mbits/sec 0 393 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 11.6 MBytes 97.5 Mbits/sec 0 434 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 10.8 MBytes 90.2 Mbits/sec 25 331 KBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 11.7 MBytes 98.5 Mbits/sec 0 356 KBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 9.82 MBytes 82.4 Mbits/sec 0 370 KBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 10.8 MBytes 90.2 Mbits/sec 0 392 KBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 11.6 MBytes 97.0 Mbits/sec 0 414 KBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 10.7 MBytes 89.7 Mbits/sec 0 434 KBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 11.6 MBytes 97.5 Mbits/sec 2 327 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 111 MBytes 93.4 Mbits/sec 60 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 109 MBytes 91.2 Mbits/sec receiver
CPU[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 17, 0 thr; 1 running
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 22.8M/120M] Load average: 0.12 0.08 0.07
Swp[ 0K/0K] Uptime: 00:16:41
I’ve done that but it didn’t help. However, I did do another test. I connected to a mobile hotspot on my mobile phone and got 45 Mbps so it seems to be either the LAN interface on the AR-750S or something else on my LAN. I’ve checked my router and there’s no QOS or anything else that might be limiting so it must be the LAN interface on the 750S.
Is there anything else I can try?
Install htop or, if already there, top, and check that you aren’t CPU-bound. Don’t open LuCI while trying to push the router hard as single-core, MIPS-based SoCs, in general, don’t have a lot of CPU power and LuCI can consume quite a bit alone.
Is your client single-stream, or does it support multiple streams? Checking
iw dev <wlan device> station dump
should show the modulation type of the connection in use.