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mvrk DD-WRT Novice Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 44 Location: Czech Republic
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 15:06 Post subject: ArcherC7v5 - 5Ghz Wifi Speed decrease in 2020/21 releases
Hi,
I tested 5Ghz wifi speed from my laptop (connected to the router via lan cable) to my android phone (close to the router) with iperf and i noticed that for most of the 2021 releases the speed decreased a lot compared to 2020 releases.
I only found 2 releases in 2021 where the Wifi speed was above 400Mb/s.
YEAR FIRMWARE WIFI5G-SFE-ON(Mb/s) WIFI5G-SFE-OFF(Mb/s)
2020 r41328 370-372 500-505
2020 r41813 452-465 500-502
2020 r42557 427-433 476-486
2020 r42747 428-447 487-492
2020 r44112 446-450 522-530
2020 r44980 363-365 404-408
2020 r45073 325-330 355-358
2020 r45109 324-330 360-261
2020 r45130 320-321 364-367
2020 r45192 322-324 360-361
2020 r45219 329-330 351-353
2021 r45711 390-393 411-414
2021 r45729 373-380 406-407
2021 r45735 358-359 381-390
2021 r45767 363-367 369-376
2021 r45820 340-341 355-361
2021 r45849 330-337 368-370
2021 r45859 319-329 356-357
2021 r45863 327-329 354-361
2021 r45891 342-347 374-377
2021 r46239 349-356 360-365
2021 r46935 336-338 347-353
2021 r47481 330-341 349-352
2021 r47618 341-345 349-363
2021 r47644 298-317 330-351
2021 r47656 332-344 357-363
2021 r47665 332-335 354-359
Does anyone experienced this decrease in speed? Anyone know what might be the cause?
I didn't had time yet to test with 2022 releases. _________________Netgear R9000
DD-WRT v3.0-r55109 std (02/27/24)
Router, AP, WDS, VAPs, SFE off
Firewall / NAT / VLANs
DNS / DHCP / DDNS / SSH / NTP / Syslog / Cron
Wireguard / OpenVPN
USB Storage / Entware (LIGHTTPD & TFTPD)
2.4GHz: Vanilla, N/G, VHT40, LDPC, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
5GHz: DD-WRT, AC/N, VHT80, Disass Low ACK, Shrt Preamble/GI, Singl Beamforming, Airt Fairness, WMM, ACK Time 500, WPA2(AES), WPA2 ENTP(AES)
TP-Link Archer C7 v2
DD-WRT v3.0-r55109 std (02/27/24)
Router, AP, WDS Station, VAPs, SFE off
SSH / NTP / Syslog / Cron
USB Storage / Entware (LIGHTTPD & TFTPD)
2.4GHz: N/G, VHT40, LDPC, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
5GHz: DD-WRT, AC/N, VHT80, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
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GamerHD DD-WRT User Joined: 12 Oct 2017 Posts: 95
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 17:41 Post subject:
Did you try enabling SFE (shortcut forwarding engine)?
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mvrk DD-WRT Novice Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 44 Location: Czech Republic
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 18:00 Post subject:
GamerHD wrote: Did you try enabling SFE (shortcut forwarding engine)?
yes, as you can see on my list, with SFE on the speed is even less. _________________Netgear R9000
DD-WRT v3.0-r55109 std (02/27/24)
Router, AP, WDS, VAPs, SFE off
Firewall / NAT / VLANs
DNS / DHCP / DDNS / SSH / NTP / Syslog / Cron
Wireguard / OpenVPN
USB Storage / Entware (LIGHTTPD & TFTPD)
2.4GHz: Vanilla, N/G, VHT40, LDPC, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
5GHz: DD-WRT, AC/N, VHT80, Disass Low ACK, Shrt Preamble/GI, Singl Beamforming, Airt Fairness, WMM, ACK Time 500, WPA2(AES), WPA2 ENTP(AES)
TP-Link Archer C7 v2
DD-WRT v3.0-r55109 std (02/27/24)
Router, AP, WDS Station, VAPs, SFE off
SSH / NTP / Syslog / Cron
USB Storage / Entware (LIGHTTPD & TFTPD)
2.4GHz: N/G, VHT40, LDPC, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
5GHz: DD-WRT, AC/N, VHT80, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
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RodriC DD-WRT Novice Joined: 18 Jan 2018 Posts: 33
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:17 Post subject:
Truth!
With older versions they perform better on my C7 v2. I use it in client mode, so the speed decreases more, but I already got 340Mb/s (down) and 46 (up) with old builds, currently it reaches 280Mb/s (down) and 47Mb/s (up)
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mvrk DD-WRT Novice Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 44 Location: Czech Republic
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:26 Post subject:
btw, good news, i just tested the most recent build (r55109) on my archer c7 v2, and 5Ghz speeds are back to normal (+/- 500 Mb/s). _________________Netgear R9000
DD-WRT v3.0-r55109 std (02/27/24)
Router, AP, WDS, VAPs, SFE off
Firewall / NAT / VLANs
DNS / DHCP / DDNS / SSH / NTP / Syslog / Cron
Wireguard / OpenVPN
USB Storage / Entware (LIGHTTPD & TFTPD)
2.4GHz: Vanilla, N/G, VHT40, LDPC, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
5GHz: DD-WRT, AC/N, VHT80, Disass Low ACK, Shrt Preamble/GI, Singl Beamforming, Airt Fairness, WMM, ACK Time 500, WPA2(AES), WPA2 ENTP(AES)
TP-Link Archer C7 v2
DD-WRT v3.0-r55109 std (02/27/24)
Router, AP, WDS Station, VAPs, SFE off
SSH / NTP / Syslog / Cron
USB Storage / Entware (LIGHTTPD & TFTPD)
2.4GHz: N/G, VHT40, LDPC, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
5GHz: DD-WRT, AC/N, VHT80, Disassoc Low ACK, Short Preamble, Short GI, Airtime Fairness, WMM, ACK Timing 500, WPA2 (AES), WPA2 ENTP (AES)
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