Wi-fi 6 with OpenWrt - the Belkin RT 3200
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Only half a dozen Wifi-6 routers are currently really supported by OpenWrt. The Belkin RT3200 (ASIN: B08L4PJKKB) which is identical to the Linksys EA8450 (ASIN: B08LMQLG7X) is one of them. In the middle of the video I explain how Antenna-steering, Beamforming and Multi User Mimo MU-MIMO work.
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Love your videos. Would also love a source of your beamforming information. I'll go google it now, but what I learned in university some years ago was beamforming was done by phase differences in each antenna to form constructive/destructive interference patterns.
You are right.that’s a phased array. Amplitude is important as well - For the explanation I thought it’s sufficient. No one will try to build that based on my video ;-) but again - you are right!
I’ll pin that comment - if anyone wants to get more info - here’s a good article www.networkworld.com/article/3445039/beamforming-explained-how-it-makes-wireless-communication-faster.html
Ha, I'm glad someone else noticed that, too! :)
This is the best demo of how MU-MIMO works in real time! Absolutely excellent work sir! Beautiful display! Would you consider also consider running a stress test for an extended period? Many of us see new hardware but are afraid to take the chance because we want reliability.
Hi Michael, that's a good suggestion - I will see how the device performs once I put it to duty in my son's appartment ;-)
Best openwrt or router video I have ever watched. Clear concise information. Subscribed.
Hi Kurt, many thanks for watching and subscribing ;-)
This video is simply great. Grasping all necessary details, saving a lot of time for those who want to get nice WiFi setup. Thank you.
Hi Marek, thank you very much
Wow, your networking interest so closely match mine, it's scary. Thanks for sharing this detailed information including the testing. I appreciate that you don't take for granted that the claims are true. One thing I was curious about with WiFI 6 is the tolerance for mixed devices. For example, WiFi 5 and 6 mixed network and what that does for performance.
Hi John. It's not scary - great minds think alike ;-) I have taken note of your suggestion for mixed mode and might have a look at that in the future!
Just bought this router and setup, absolutely love it! Great channel friend
Awesome - many thanks for the feedback - and I'm glad your happy with the device. It is still early experimental days for it probably (for most people it might be worth waiting for release support)
@@OneMarcFifty just updated to theatest snapshot from 2 days ago. Now they have luci apart of the upgrade instead of having to use putty to. Ring back the gui. Wasn't a big deal but nice that they can save a few steps.
Totally agree, right now more technically inclined or folks willing to do some research this would be tailored to.
For those who found this video sometime later - the self-signed SSL certificate in the default Belkin firmware was expired, and the latest firmware enforces HTTPS to access admin panel, but it doesn't renew the certificate before that! So to access the admin panel and flash OpenWRT on the device I had to launch Chrome from the terminal with special unsafe flags to skip certificate validation.
Great advice! Many thanks for sharing!
@@OneMarcFiftya short explaining this would be great as I've had trouble signing into https admin on my router...also, a series of short vids on how to check file integrity via checksum hash and .MSI or whatever would be popular as no other vids exist....also detailing how to use kleopatra for PHP and how to verify GitHub downloads (like unobtaniun) likely being "virus" free would be great as well. Maybe explain how to scan with a static/dynamic code scanner and test with Wireshark
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I am glad to have stumbled over your channel. Da macht das alles viel mehr Spass mit Dir!
Awesome, many thanks ;-)
So glad I cam across your channel. Informative and entertaining as well :D
Hey, many thanks for the feedback - glad you like it !
@@OneMarcFifty Went and got this very same router to improve the wifi at home... and welp, seems like the speeds are terrible, at least on the wifi side.
Still trying to get to grips with OpenWrt, so I may be at fault, but it doesn't seem like I'm using the whole bandwith for some reason here.
Running a reverse iperf3 the router sends all the data back to me fine, but when I send it back to it in client mode, my speeds are mediocre (40/60Mbps). Wonder if something isn't set right or a bad channel issue. Also wanted to mentioned that it's not possible to go back to stock firmware anymore after flashing OpenWrt with the newer snapshots though.
This channel is ahead of time.
Thank you very much ;-)
Excellent video. Good test and information.
Thanks for your video. It is very important for the me to kickstart of my OpenWRT life.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback
Thanks, this is timely - I was literally looking at the RT 3200 last night and wondering how well it is supported in openwrt snapshot
Awesome - many thanks ;-)
Thank you. A good description and explanation.
Thank you very much Mark.
Great video as always. Plus one for a video on de-bricking a router via the serial port.
Many thanks Andrew - the debrick video will come ;-)
Marc... always interesting stuff... ;-)
Thank you ;-)
Hey Marc. You’re the man!!
Thank you ;-)
Hello Marc - I'm glad to find your Tech Channel. Reading the description of the RT3200, I see that the stock firmware only supports storage devices on the USB port. If you're still using the RT3200 with OpenWrt, can you say whether it supports using a USB connected 4G/5G LTE cellular modem to provide the WAN Internet uplink? Thanks!
Hi David, that should not be a problem. The limitations for USB connectivity with Stock firmware are not based on technical limitations afaik
Thanks for that info. I know that my older MikroTik RB493G has a single, unpowered USB 2.0 port, and I'm running the latest OpenWrt available (19.07.10). So, I'm looking at the RT3200 as a replacement router / hot spot, while also replacing my slow-ish AT&T UVerse (28Mb down / 4.6Mb up) with a Sierra Wireless EM9191 Cellular 5G/4G CAT-20 modem, in a USB 3.0 enclosure. The speed test with my 4G LTE phone, shows ~90Mb down / 11Mb up, and the 5G modem could be faster.
Great explanation as always.
Thank you very much !
Please include SQM tests in next episode
Great point - I'll take note of that !
Thank you great video everything clearly explained
Thank you very much
Great content, thanks lots mate.
Thank you!
Nice video! Thank you!
I learnt alot form your video but still have some confuse about the WiFi coverage. have you tested the OpenWrt signal strength? is it good if you connect form another room? with a wall between router and client?
Hi John, I have not ran a specific repeatable test for the Wifi reach / coverage. However I have noticed that two brick walls took the speed down to 50-100 MBps - but again, I have nothing to compare it to. I might do additional tests based on reach etc. in the future though
good review finally someone who knows how to test a wifi AP, but you definitely need wifi 6 clients... all this review told me is that the belkin will give about 700mbps on 5Ghz wifi, which is something most routers can already do...
Hi, you are definitely right. I have just recently updated two of my laptops to Wifi-6 (Intel AX200/AX210) and might do another test in the nearer future. However - the uplink is limited to 1GB. I am curious to see Wi-fi to Wi-fi speed however ;-)
Great video. Thank you.
Hi Marc, thanks for showing the video about the RT-3200 wifi performance, would you be kind to point the direction about learning more about the iperf commands. Thank you
Hi Wepee, I have a video on that in the pipe - not a full tutorial but rather a short toolbox episode. Should come out before June.
Hi @OneMarcFifty
First of all : A HUGE THX for all your videos that have brought me up to speed on many points!
I am looking for a suitable replacement of my current Netgear R8000, which has a lot of issues with VLAN + Wireless.
The Belkin RT 3200 looks great.
Would you be able to me if I can use both "Hardware Flow Offloading" and VLANs tagging? Are they compatible?
Thanks a lot
Offloading should work - as it is Mediatek hardware. However - you might not even need it as the device is powerful enough for GBit traffic. VLAN tagging is supported, no issue.
@@OneMarcFifty thanks! Can’t wait for the router to arrive. It’s hard to get one nowadays.
Hello Marc,
I see that you have enabled hardware flow offloading in your video. Tried it myself on 22.03.0-rc4, rc5 - no improvements on CPU side. By searching the forums came to conclusion that so called WED is not compatible with firewall4 and therefore is not enabled. In this video you have used snapshot version from January, so how did it went in long term ? I do assume that firewall v3 was used for this video recording to be compatible with WED?
Yes, that was a while ago. I will need to check. The device is due for an upgrade soon anyhow.
Hi Marc. Great video. For beamforming on the belkin rt3200 openwrt did you have to apply the setting to all radios or only the 5ghz one? Did you use Basic Service Set Coloring? Thanks
Hi, I did not set any options and also no service coloring - the beam forming is enabled on the 5 GHz only on my device.
@OneMarcFifty: Went and bought this router to test a few things with OpenWrt, but before flashing the router: how did you install the firmware? Are you able to go back to stock firmware just in case? Thanks for the great content :D
Hi, please see the other videos on my channel for more details on this : czcams.com/users/OneMarcFiftyvideos
Hello Marc! A month ago I acquired the Rt3200, it worked wonderfully, then from one day to the next it stopped emitting a Wi-Fi signal. I have restored it to factory settings, I have reconfigured it many times and nothing gives a signal. In the configuration box everything seems to be fine. In fact, it was sent to technical service and returned unresolved. According to your experience and expertise, what could it be? A big greeting from Venezuela.
Hi Marc, thanks a lot for your videos! I just bought Belkin RT3200 (I hope the affiliate link visit registered correctly at Amazon) and flashed it with OpenWRT straight away. I've noticed that in the video you have 2 wireless devices MT7622 and MT7915E, but for me LuCI shows only one - MT7622. Is it just a matter of running "opkg install kmod-mt7915e" to make both network adapters work? Did you have to do something else to configure radio1?
Hi, that's strange - I didn't have to configure anything really, recognized it straight away. Did you try installing kmod-mt7915e? It should be included in the firmware ? Maybe try a newer version of OpenWrt. Keep me posted!
@@OneMarcFifty I flashed the router with the latest at the moment sysupgrade snapshot and OpenWRT picked up the second radio device. Works like a charm!🎉 Thanks again! Your videos helped me to approach this problem with confidence.
Oh great, thank you very much for letting me know - I am happy that you got it sorted !!!!
Thanks for the great video. Hopefully, next time you will upgrade the wifi card in your notebook with something like Intel AX210 (~25 EUR), and will proceed with testing for wifi6 performance. Maybe in the next video about flashing OpenWrt into RT3200? 😉
By the way, what about performance degradation (if any) if use not a WPA2, but WPA3 (SAE) for wifi clients?
Hi Alexander, many thanks for the feedback - I did have a look at the AX2xx cards - they are indeed quite good prices - At the moment though I still have a laptop that has Whitelist for Wifi - might swap it or hack the BIOS to get around ;-)
Great video! I'm thinking on pulling the trigger on one of these, would you recommend software & hardware offloading or SQM on these units? I'm on a 200/50 fiber connection.
Hi Gianmarco, the router is powerful enough to do SQM without Offloading I think.
In Amazon US there are many negative comments regarding failures. Anyway, since returns are free I just got a Linsys AX3200 (same hardware) to check the speed and range of this Wifi 6 router.
Hi Oscar, many thanks for pointing this out. Actually I can confirm that the 2.4 GHz part (i.e. the MT7622 part) seems to have failures every now and then. The 5 GHz / Wi-fi 6 part (MT7915) however seems to work like a charm. At least that's what I can see here after using it for a couple of weeks. I quick-fixed this by running a cron job with /etc/init.d/network restart every morning at 5 AM - not a fix but a workaround until the root cause will be found. If you plan using this for 5 GHZ / Wi-fi 6 only then you will not be concerned by the issue.
Thanks for the video. WiFi 6 is very much lacking on OpenWRT.
True - but there is a lot of work going on at the moment, especially on the mt7915
Hello, congratulations for your videos. My question is if this device, after installing OpenWRT, is powerful enough to work as Router+Firewall (with Adguard)+Media Server (With jellyfin via Docker)+NAS (with a SATA Enclosure USB 3.0 Raid) or am I asking much?. Thank you very much in advance.
Hi Gabriel - you can definitely run adguard and potentially samba to share some files. But it will for sure not replace a full NAS and it will not be able to run Jellyfin.
Great video. The Belkin seems expensive if you compare it to Totolink. I've bought 2 Totolink X5000R for less than one Belkin (of course the Totolink has not the same specs, but as far as i know also beamforming and mu-mimo). Maybe you can get a Totolink in your hands to test and compare?
Hi, many thanks for the feedback. I searched for it but could not find any before I made the video.
Hi Marc. Have you ever came across any AP with smart antenna and test the beamforming and mu-mimo vs devices with normal antenna?
Hi Andy, you mean those fancy "motorized" antennas, i.e. moving antennas ? No, not really - even though I'd be curious to see if that really has any effect or if it is just making money. Also I'd be curious about the noise they produce (at night....) and the lifesan of it ;-)
@@OneMarcFifty its not the moving antenna. Some fancy brands such as ruckus , cisco uses smart antenna. Care to take a skim on this czcams.com/video/FUlyB_yLCIs/video.html ,
Marc do you know much about the RT1800? Is it the same device but with a slower radio? Can you also put OpenWRT on it ?
Hi Matt, it‘s not listed in the table of hardware so I‘d assume that it is not supported (yet)
Hello Marc thanks for the video! if I install OpenWrt do I will be able to use the Easymesh standard ??? Thanks
How do you find the MT7622 CPU against your previous recommendation, the MT7621 (e.g.DIR-2600)?
I haven't really compared them - the MT7621 router (DIR-2660) was used as a main router at the time while the RT3200 currently is used as an access point only. There seams to be an issue though with the MT7622 - especially in the lights of 2.4 GHz - I actually run a cron job to restart the RT3200 every night.As far as I can remember, I did not have that problem on the MT7621. But this is really not objective information as I would have to cross-test in order to confirm
I tried to use your link, but it throws me an error. I went to eBay and brought one. This router is a monster, I just take around 30 seconds to be ready to use it. Thanks Marc. I already flashed OpenWRT :)
Hi, that's awesome - many thanks - which link did you use that threw an error ? My Amazon links just search for the product ASIN - might be it's not available in your country (saw that with the Belkin in the US site) - which country are you from ?
@@OneMarcFifty Maybe that is the problem, it's not available in my that country.
How does the router perform when SQM is enabled? I have a Gigabit download connection and would like to use all if not most of the available bandwidth with SQM enabled. Knowing that SQM can be CPU intensive, I want to know whether the Belkin product is up to the job. Thank you.
Hi, I would have a slight doubt there if it can really do 1 GBit with SQM enabled. Haven't tested it but I'd say it could go up to 350-400 MBit at best (again - estimate, not tested!). I think you really need x86 hardware plus good cooling for that.
I followed your tutorial, and successfully installed openwrt to belkin rt3200, many thanks. When i go to Firewall on luci, i do not see the custom rules tab. Is there a way to get it?
Might be a bug in the snapshot version of luci-app-firewall - maybe update luci-app-firewall in the system-software settings - or wait for the release ;-( Alternatively you can edit the file /etc/firewall.user via ssh
I have a peculiar question.
Would it be possible to use 2 ports as WAN ports, since I have 1.5gb from my ISP, since the Belkin only have gigabit ports and not multi gigabit ports. So I would have my full internet speed with the WiFi 6?
You could do that. Etherne bonding and the like can be done with OpenWrt. It would however depend on the physical capabilities of the Ethernet card in the device. I doubt that this would be able to go above 1 Gbps
@@OneMarcFifty Thank you for replying.
It is so crazy how the companies sell a router with theoretically 3200mb capabilities over WiFi, but it comes with a 1gb wan port... It should be illegal.
Now I'm on square zero again, can't find the solution to be able to use my full internet speed with openwrt.
Do you know if it will support Mesh with Wifi 6? I currently have Deco X20 and it is compatible (Wifi 6 and Mesh), only openwrt functions are needed.
Yes it does
Hello. Kinda unrelated but I don't know who or where to ask this question. I got and old Linksys EA6350 v2 router but on the OpenWRT web page there's versions for v1, v3, v4... so if I install the v3 version on my v2 would it be a problem? The main difference, that I was able to find, is that the v2 has 128MB Flash and RAM while the v3 has 128MB Flash and 256MB RAM. Would it be a problem?
Hi, on a ageneral note - if the device is not in the Table of Hardware on OpenWrt, then please do assume that it is unsupported. However, a good place to ask a bigger audience are the OpenWrt Forums: forum.openwrt.org/
I installed OpenWrt on my CPE510 and, just seeing if you could help me. I have it setup in client mode (Can only access the internet via the ethernet cable) but, want to be able to connect to it wirelessly. Do you know of a guide, where I can get that setup? I can't find anything that describes how to do that.
really cooooooooooooooooooool test, especially the Routing/NAT Offloading settings of the Firewall, i really don't know they were hiding there & the CPU could do less job with it. thx. By the way, seems the pronunciation of "openwrt“ could be simular to ”openuult“
Hi Vincent, many thanks for the feedback! Yes, pronunciation is always a tricky thing, especially with software ike "OpenWrt" or "NGINX" or "Nagios", "Mate", "Caja"......
I am looking into the Belkin RT3200 as well. Glad OpenWrt works well on it. How's the WiFi range? I want to get one, but I am worried that the range isn't that great.
Hi many thanks for the feedback ! I have not tested or rather compared the Wi-fi reach of the device. During my tests I had two brick walls between the router and another device and performance dropped to 50-100 MBps - but that's not a reliable repeatable test.
There is a subreddit for ope wrt of the original xaiomi redmi ax6 (Qualcomm based). Does not seem to in production anymore with the redmi ax6s replacing it (same internals as this unit)
Hi Philip, checking the OpenWrt dev threat on this forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-xiaomi-ax3600/55049/5472 there still seem to be a lot of issues that need to be resolved for this device...
Hi thank for the video i have a question is there anyway to install openvpn on snapshot?
Hi, that really depends on the package maintainer. Maybe try the latest release candidate (22.03.0 rc5) - it has support for the belkin: firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=22.03.0-rc5&target=mediatek%2Fmt7622&id=linksys_e8450
Hi Marc, I have one RT 3200 with OpenWrt set as Dumb AP, in mode AX Width 80 MHz, but with my Android phone (Samsung A52S) when connected I can't see the "6" above Wifi icon while when I'm connected to my company Wifi is there. is this real Wifi 6 ? Anothe question is 160 Mhz feasible and reliable ? Thank's for everything.
Hi Andrea - it should be Wifi 6 (AX) - but as I say in the video - I don't have Wifi 6 hardware to check... Might be worth asking the question on the OpenWrt forum as well maybe.
Hello, my phone is capable of using Wifi6, do you think it consume more power than the wifi5?
Is this the same as a Belkin AX3200? I looked up Belkin RT3200 on Belkin support and nothing was found
Hi Rich, I think they are the same.
Greetings from Venezuela. Excuse my English, I am writing to you from the translator. I have had this same router for 6 months and it is giving me a problem. Internet is down. The modem is still working, that's why I know it's a router problem. I turn it off and after turning it on the power light stays flashing for a long time and it doesn't work. I have to turn it off for like two hours. Then I turn it on and now it works. I have tried resetting it to factory settings to reconfigure it. I carry out all the steps and in the end it returns to the first step of the configuration. At the store where I bought it they tell me that it no longer has a warranty. Do you know how to solve the problem?
Hi happy easter! I just replaces mit Fritz Devices with Openwrt TR3200. Did you know how I can create a full repeater mode to carry 2,4 and 5Ghz WIFI without a cable connection.
When I try to do this and use the LAN Network for both 2,4 and 5Ghz I go into a loop. But I don't have a idea to prevent this. Goal for me is to have a repeater on this locations where I don't have no wire connection and can connect to the repeater to manage it without a cable.
I'd use either one of WDS, or mesh networking. Potentially batman or gretap for VLANs if you wanted. I have tried relayd in the past but couldn't really get it to work. You may want to have a look at this article: openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/relay_configuration
How can the full WiFI 6 bandwidth be used if there is no 2.5 GbE Port on the device?
Now this is a _very_ good question - down to the point. Short answer: You can't. You could probably if you had more than one _real_ physical eth but - you know - it looks like all the consumer grade Wi-fi devices show up huge speeds when connecting but once you get to do real performance tests they don't even bypass 600-700 mbps. So I'd be glad if I even got to 1 Gbps ;-)
That's exactly my concern, I have 1.5gb internet speed and I can't find a router with openwrt support that handles multi gigabit speeds.
Hi everyone! Thanks for the videos!
I'm considering to buy this router but first I'd like to get some good feedback about wired connections (1Gbps) and not enablid software and hardware offloading.
Regards.
Hi Antonio, in my experience this router can easily do close to 1 GB without any offloading.
Hello Marc. With this video, I've been able to install Openwrt on my Belkin rt3200. Thanks so much. Can you provide a guide on
wrtbwmon, a data usage service on openwrt. There is a modified one, wrtbwmon-remixed . This will be fantastic to have on openwrt. Special requests. Do more videos on how to install packages on Openwrt. Thank you
Hi, many thanks for the hint. I'll have a look at it.
Great video. I'm trying to install OpenWRT with UBI via dangowrt...Not going per instructions... :(
Hi David, Daniel has added a lot of detail to the documentation - best advice would be to follow exactly his readme github.com/dangowrt/owrt-ubi-installer
Is 128rom enough for installing applications? After openwrt you get only 30mb free?
On a small system like my Lyra I have an overlay File system of 40 MB and roughly 10 MB free - with Python and git installed. The ROM portion is 4.5 MB. On the RT 3200 I have 64 MB free with the same software packages.
@@OneMarcFifty thank you
It seems that this router get recommended a lot in the OpenWRT forum.
Do you think this is the best wireless router for OpenWRT in 2022? What are the weakness(es) of this model?
It’s a great device - slowly more AX capable devices are added, maybe weakness is that there are no external antennas.
nice video
Many thanks Luis !
hi, do you manage to flash openvpn as right now kernel is not compatible
That’s quite often the case with snapshot - you would probably have to wait for the release version
This router works with mesh with Xiaomi Mi Router 4A Gigabit Edition?
Does it support beam forming on openwrt?
Hi, I want to buy this router but I have some doubts, I hope you can help me
My isp gave me a fiber optic modem that also acts as a router, On this device I don't have the option to bridge mode or change the DHCP parameters but it allows me to use DMZ and port forwarding.
I want to connect a wifi 6 router with OpenWRT to the isp modem. Is there a way to avoid double nat using DMZ and port forwarding?
I would also like to change the DNS server from the router with OpenWRT to use it on all my devices
I read about Poor Man's Bridge Mode But i don't know what that setup will accomplish.
Is there any way to avoid double nat and to change the dns server from the new router with OpenWRT?
Tricky question - it depends a lot on your ISP. Generally speaking you have the choice to keep LAN/WAN segregation on the OpenWrt router, then connect WAN (OpenWrt) to LAN (ISP) - result: DMZ and double NAT. Second option is to set up OpenWrt as dumb access points, i.e. connect LAN to LAN and use DHCP from the ISP. Result : No DMZ, single NAT. best solution would be to use PPPOE directly to the ISP by using the ISPs access as a modem, but not all ISPs offer that. Port forward will not help you.
@@OneMarcFifty Thank you very much for the answer, now it is clearer to me. I will look for what my options are :)
Hello! What is the latest on WiFI BW off the forums please?
Hi Robin, there is an ongoing discussion thread (3500+ entries!) here forum.openwrt.org/t/belkin-rt3200-linksys-e8450-wifi-ax-discussion/94302
I am able to get up to 880 mbps over wifi with 160 MHz channel width between my laptop and server with this router. The laptop has an Intel AX201 wifi card. This is with iperf and not just the reported link speed.
Awesome- many thanks for sharing!!!
Is that rebranded Linksys?
Hi, it's identical to the Linksys (except for the color - the Linksys has a black case, the Belkin has a white case)
Can you suggest something for tp link deco E4?
Hi, I could not find the Deco E4 in the ToH as a supported device on OpenWrt. However there is a discussion thread here forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-tp-link-deco-m4r/68940/69 which contains more info. Looks like the bootloader has been modified to only accept signed firmware. You would need to replace the Uboot or whatever is in the device with an open one. Not sure if the device has JTAG to do that.
@@OneMarcFifty Hi, guy from forum here. There is no need to replace the bootloader, someone leaked a beta OEM firmware that can be flashed from the bootloader recovery page and has telnet unlocked. From there it's a simple download with curl (or alternatively, ftp or scp), then splitting the image with dd and flashing using mtd. Alternatively, one may solder wires to the PCB and flash the image from bootloader console. Only the bootloader recovery page checks the image (nm_fwup.c doing the upgrade in bootloader recovery, a failed check resulting in an "nm_error"), flashing from bootloader console doesn't check the image neither does flashing using mtd.
Awesome - many thanks for sharing this!
@@OneMarcFifty thank you very much for the reply ✌️
ist er gut oder nicht ? keine ahnung mit den zeug
Du meinst den Router ? Im Prinzip ist er nicht schlecht. Er hat natürlich seine Macken - mittlerweile ist die Liste von unterstützten Geräten aber auch länger geworden ;-)
14:40 I was watching another video while watching this, coincidentally when I came to this point the other video I was watching played speedrun music (the one Dream uses, a Minecraft youtuber)
Is it a coincidence ? ;-)
@@OneMarcFifty there is no such thing as a coincidence
Cant you install batman on this router and make a mesh with it?
Yes you can
Can I use my Existing Wi-Fi
Hi bobby, not sure what you mean - you mean your existing Wifi hardware or do you mean maintaining your Wifi settings or do you mean combining OpenWrt with existing stock hardware ?
Belkin has Easymesh. Do you think it is good than this?
Hi Jose, I can't tell really - I have never used it. I am buying devices that are supported by OpenWrt and usually the first thing I do is flash OpenWrt on them ;-)
@@OneMarcFifty Thank you Marc for your reply. I bought the RT3200 based on your recommendation, flashed it openwrt. Got a problem with LAN. The ethernet connection keeps cutting off.
@@OneMarcFifty thanks Marc. I have 3 Belkin RT3200 and will install openwrt. Which one is best to do on your tutorial? Access point or MESH?
How do I set my up
Hi Bobby, not sure if I do understand your question - are you looking for instructions on how to install OpenWrt on it ?
Great
Thank you.
These are on sale in the UK at £49. I'm tempted. But the reviews are terrible. And multigigabit but only 1gig ethernet :( also people complain about the no WiFi 6 on 2.4GHz.
49 quit is not too bad ;-) You need to read the reviews carefully. Are they based on stock firmware or OpenWrt ? Also people sometimes come in with specific expectations. Yes - it "only" has 1 GB ports - but then again... if you want something faster you'd probably have to put in twice or three times the price..
Is this video sponsored? Sorry if I missed it somewhere
No it’s not. I just love that device. No affiliation whatsoever
@@OneMarcFifty 👍
Thank you for good explanation and test. Please pay attention to GL-iNet routers, very insteresting hardware. Stay healthy! :)
Hi, many thanks for the feedback.
Mediatek cpu. I think this thing lacks 160mhz support if it's the same cpu as in the xaiomi redmi ax6s. Well it's a start
Yea, I thought so when I started testing - not sure though. Need to double check
@@OneMarcFifty limitation of that chipset
I just bought one and it's creating a 160Mhz wide channel on channel 100 just fine.
I'd rather upgrade my Turris Omnia / PC Engines APU* APs with a new miniPCIe card (such as the Compex WLE3000H* series with 4x4 MU-MIMO and up to 4K-QAM...)
Not the same price range really… the Belkin costs 99$ - but if you have it already then yes - just which Wi-fi card would you use for Wifi6 in AP mode? The AX200/AX210 cards do not support AP mode in the 5 GHz band…
@@OneMarcFifty Well, I bought my TO for some 200-250€ back then. But that was the original foundraising campaign :).
I would no more buy any router which is not design to be open and to be run with an open OS...
@@OneMarcFifty "just which Wi-fi card would you use for Wifi6 in AP mode? "
"Compex WLE3000H* series " as I wrote above. The price varies between 60-100€ for 4x4 MIMO, depending on the exact type.
In the datasheet they say they support OpenWrt...
Is it available? Where would you buy it?
Mantao
?!?
Finally openwrt support...ddwrt basically died, sad
Yes - true.
Just brought the GL.iNet ax1800 wifi 6 and openwrt only £95 U.K. Pounds
Hi Nigel - the GL.iNet devices are nice - I like them. However please keep in mind that they very often run their own version of OpenWrt, i.e. they do not necessarily have full mainstream support.
@@OneMarcFifty hi would I be able to reflash it from there open wet to a say proper version with mainstream
Strange it runs openwrt but there is no new frimware for it so I cannot reflash the firmware
Your camera has two bad pixels.
Oh - could you explain please (Time marker etc. / where to notice ?) Maybe I set the wrong parameters on the green screen again ;-)
@@OneMarcFifty I can't attach link to screenshot :( In this case, just pause on 0:10, for example, and examine the left part of your t-shirt. There are two clearly visible bright dots which are always there throughout the video. If you edit your comments policy, I will post the link to screenshot with pixels circled for you to notice them.
It really looks like camera sensor has bad pixels. This can fixed usually in service center, they have special software/hardware which does pixel remapping - the value of bad pixel brightness is interpolated from the neighboring pixels. Some cmaeras have built-in pixel remapping option in menu.
Ok I see them - it‘s actually three or four - you must have eagle‘s eyes ;-) I‘ll check if it is dust on the teleprompter or if it‘s the camera - many thanks for letting me know !!! I had to watch this on my 4K TV to spot it ;-)
@@OneMarcFifty I spot them on 27 inch QHD monitor ;)
I really learnt something from your comments - turns out that my camera has a „clean sensor“ menu - that actually seems to do what you described in your comment - unfortunately I have already recorded multiple episodes with the bad pixels ;-(
This router is an absolute piece of crap.
Hi Calvin, I do respect strong opinions but it would be great if you could expand a little bit on why you don't like it ?
Thx)
You’re welcome
Hi Marc. Great, informative channel! Do you have some thoughts about other wifi 6 openwrt routers like Cudy X6 / Totolink X5000R or Xiaomi AX3600? I search something else, because I'm a bit disappointed that model from video supports ax only on 5ghz channel.
I will run a big router test very shortly- including 3 Xiaomi routers and many more ;-)
@@OneMarcFifty I can't wait :)
@@OneMarcFiftyHi! How's your progress with the movie preparation going? I'm still eagerly awaiting the release of your film, as I am interested in purchasing a router based on the information provided in the movie :). Keep up the good work!
I have bought the routers, developped the test environment (automated), have completed and recorded 35 tests out of 80. I will need to conduct a motion test with 7 devices (will need a day where I have the house for this…), flash 9 devices with OpenWrt and then run 54 more tests ;-( it will take some more time I am afraid…
@@OneMarcFifty wow 😲. That's really impressive! It's definitely worth to wait a bit longer :)