I run r33413 10 days with no problems at all but time to move on
EA8500
DD-WRT v3.0-r33458 std (10/07/17)
Linux 3.18.72 #180 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 5 00:36:18 CEST 2017 armv7l
No Reset
07:30:31 up 36 min
This seems good build -- its been up on the test router 10 hr 40 min.
updates on a couple notable items --- twas some security fixes ...
AFAIK the security issues in previous versions probably more dependent on how your config is setup.
OpenVPN 2.4.3 >> 2.4.4
DNSMasq 2.77 >> 2.78
same unbound 1.6.6
same ath10k firmware ver 10.4.3.00063 we had forever ...but she is ok
I like to share the glory so attached is r33458 dd-wrt-webupgrade.bin. This is for the EA8500 ONLY
Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 274 Location: Madison, CT, US
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 14:37 Post subject:
Thanks again. Much appreciated. Keep hearing about random rebooting with R33435 for those using the ipv6 fix in the command line. I have several users on my network so I am a little reluctant to fix what's not broken. _________________ Netgear R7800(2), R7500v2(2) WDS, Asus RT-AC68R (2)
Thanks again. Much appreciated. Keep hearing about random rebooting with R33435 for those using the ipv6 fix in the command line. I have several users on my network so I am a little reluctant to fix what's not broken.
yea seen some with problems ....
wish they would install r33413 BS build see if still have same issue.....need to narrow down the problem...but I'll just go about my IPv4 merry way....
I was just giving you hard time about Linksys uboot lock. U-boot has never been locked ....only their firmware for US EA8500 starting with firmware released in July 2016.
@ mrjcd thanks for keeping us updated. I loaded r33458 up earlier. Just up under 9 hours and so far so good. FWIW we are also provisioned with ipv4.
Just for fun I switched my device roles, previously I had the EA8500 as the primary and the wrt3200acm as the OVPN client. I knew the EA8500 wasn’t going match or outperform the wrt3200’s vpn speed but with tatsuya46’s cpu scaling hack and dropping back to AES 128 from AES-256 as he suggested in previous post now seeing a huge improvement with the EA8500. Over Ethernet it’s now flirting with 100Mbps on the D/L side but still somewhat less over the 5ghz band, only seeing about 80Mbps over the 5ghz which is unusual because my wrt3200 was still able to do 110/35 over the 5ghz on speedtest.net so may need to go back and tweak the wireless settings.
As kind of a before & after when I first received the EA8500 the best it could do on the vpn service was 35/35 over Ethernet so seeing speeds nearing 100Mbps for D/L over Ethernet is a huge improvement. At the risk of stating the obvious I should mention if anyone is going to apply the cpu scaling hack be advised it will run slightly warmer.
@ mrjcd thanks for keeping us updated. I loaded r33458 up earlier. Just up under 9 hours and so far so good. FWIW we are also provisioned with ipv4.
Just for fun I switched my device roles, previously I had the EA8500 as the primary and the wrt3200acm as the OVPN client. I knew the EA8500 wasn’t going match or outperform the wrt3200’s vpn speed but with tatsuya46’s cpu scaling hack and dropping back to AES 128 from AES-256 as he suggested in previous post now seeing a huge improvement with the EA8500. Over Ethernet it’s now flirting with 100Mbps on the D/L side but still somewhat less over the 5ghz band, only seeing about 80Mbps over the 5ghz which is unusual because my wrt3200 was still able to do 110/35 over the 5ghz on speedtest.net so may need to go back and tweak the wireless settings.
As kind of a before & after when I first received the EA8500 the best it could do on the vpn service was 35/35 over Ethernet so seeing speeds nearing 100Mbps for D/L over Ethernet is a huge improvement. At the risk of stating the obvious I should mention if anyone is going to apply the cpu scaling hack be advised it will run slightly warmer.
Thanks, that's good info.
Someday I'll get fast connection. There is a lot of other things I would like to do and I think the EA8500 would do it all for me ....maybe in retirement... if I live long enough to retire. Where I currently live there is only one ISP and the fastest they offer is 100/100 but it's $200 per month. I don't actually have the time to really do what I want now anyways......but someday
might have to move ..... currently ISP still has me on a /27 subnetmask left over from their very early broadband setup....makes it hard to do anything really extreme in this small town. They might not can see what I'm doing or where I go but it would be very easy to know what type traffic was coming/going and believe me I would be the very first place they looked if wanted to pin down certainty internet traffic.
Glad you enjoy the EA8500. They are decent routers. There are several other tweeks you could do to increase certain things...just not anything I really messed with since I'm only on a 20/20 connection.
05dyna,
I would think your 5 GHz should do better.
I don't change settings on main router very often but done some little changes several
builds back that seemed to make overall wireless smoother on the 5GHz.
Most folks differences are purely difference in clients but this is what I've been running for a while.
Strange thing happened just few days ago -- I come in and started to upload some files from old reliable
droid turbo phone that always connects to 5 GHz but he was slow as a snail. Done some speed test showing only 6 Mbps both ways.
I immediately blamed it on the router and started looking but seen no problem. Grabbed the tablet and it was fine as
should be....... so I done something I rarely do - rebooted the phone.
It then connected up and speed was as good as I've ever seen it ... not a thing wrong with dd-wrt EA8500
EA8500 r33458 ... just LAN test w/pissy 5GHz client.
NOTE:
Droid Turbo phone has HE Tools app installed which runs iperf3
Connected 5GHz to main EA8500 router
Max connection of this device is 433 (about 1/4 of the EA8500 capibilities)
IP = 10.72.29.13
server is test router EA8500 @ 10.72.29.52 as switch
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The EA8500 doesn't have the switch seperated like the R7800 (and I think the new Marvell WRTs also)
so it prolly will never do as fast across the WAN plus its got the slower CPU.... but I love her anyway
@ Mrjcd I don’t do anything that crosses the line with the vpn so I don’t care what they see or don’t see. I got the service several years long before everyone here in the US got their panties all in a twist over the US Privacy law changes. I mainly got it just out of curiosity and thought it would be good idea to use the app when using in hotel & motel wireless. I figured since I had the service I would try to configure it to work with dd-wrt but the earlier attempts were unsuccessful with the lower end routers, the speeds were just awful. Then with the evolution of the better dd-wrt routers like the wrt3200 I figured I configure one and just let it run.
As far as ISP speeds (in general) we are looking for to relocate and some of the recent areas we viewed only have one ISP and their offerings aren’t that good. At our current residence here in the People’s Republic of NJ we have competing ISP’s due to the larger population so the 100Mbps is kind of the standard entry level tier with OK TV programming. Honestly looking back it doesn’t seem all that long ago that we were doing Dial-up and then 3Mbps DSL. Our former ISP is now offering Gigabit which I am not going to purchase but I think the upside is its good because it would bring the price down on their lower tiers like their 100/100 which competes directly with the our cable company packages. Of course the cable co. isn’t going to be offering symmetrical connections but some of the people with the fiber don’t even know the difference
Thanks for the additional info on the wireless setup. I’m been experimenting some this morning with the wireless and vpn and seeing a little improvement. Just about maxed out but I did get a few burst like 96/34 with QOS off on the main router with your suggested settings on the EA8500 with SFE disabled. I *think* disabling SFE on the EA8500 since its in back of the primary helped level off the speeds and now not seeing those huge speed variations. So that’s as good as it gets. With QOS enabled on the main router it seems to be holding steady around 80+ on the D/L side over the vpn so this is a huge improvement over where is was originally. So with dd-wrt, your settings and tatsuya46’s hack it’s working at optimal performance IMHO. Just looked at the status and the uptime just rolled over to 1 Day and so just going to let it go until the next build... So thanks again to you, tatsuya46 and the Devs.
Don't use the dd-wrt router damn database to get firmware.
AND don't use a dd-wrt public release factory-to-ddwrt.img for first install on a EA8500 ... no matter
what linksys firmware you have --- won't work, won't boot, it's messed up bad last time I checked.
