Hi there,
I am curious about something.
Are we getting slower hardware on Flint 3 and Slate 7, when compared to Flint 2 and Slate AX?
How do we explain significantly lower Wireguard performance on Flint, and a decline as well on Slate 7, according to official specs?
Flint 2: OpenVPN speed up to 190 Mbps; WireGuard® speed up to 900 Mbps
Flint 3: OpenVPN Speed Up to 142 Mbps; WireGuard® Speed Up to 644 Mbps
Slate AX: OpenVPN speed up to 120 Mbps; WireGuard speed up to 550 Mbps
Slate 7: OpenVPN speed up to 100 Mbps; WireGuard® speed up to 540 Mbps
Thanks
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There's a few big players on the wifi-router-soc market. MediaTek and Qualcomm being 2 of them.
The flagship chipsets of those 2 brands are MediaTek Filogic 880 and Qualcomm IPQ5332
The Slate AX and Flint 2 contain chips of MediaTek. The Filogic 820 and Filogic 830 I believe.
The Slate 7 and Flint 3 contain chips of Qualcomm. Cannot find the precise ones.
Each brand makes choices while designing these chips. And apparently Qualcomm does not value the speed of the CPU as highly as MediaTek. This results in lower speeds in VPN speeds, but may redeem itself on other areas.
Let's be honest, the wifi drivers on the Flint 2 were not the best! Possibly the Flint 3 does not come with buggy wifi. Yes, it may have slower OpenVPN/Wireguard. Choices are made.
Hopefully the rumours of a "OpenWRT Two" are true. And hopefully that would beat the Flint 3 in those speeds and all other specs of the Flint 3.
Maybe one year ago, but now there is no issue as far as I know.