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Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 9:54 am
by Oober
Hi,
Using Gargoyle 1.11. I have selected Finland for a region at the first login time.
I don't see the 30 dBm option for 5 GHz wifi, only 27 dBm is present. How to unlock 30 dBm transmit power?
BR Oober
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:14 pm
by ispyisail
what is your legal limit?
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:18 pm
by Oober
Based on ETSI, it's 30 dBm on higher channels.
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:10 pm
by RomanHK
In my opinion, 27dbm maximum PCI-E performance will be 5GHz card. Already in OpenWrt Chaos Calmer rc3 this performance was recorded (
https://dev.archive.openwrt.org/ticket/ ... #comment:3).
Archer C7 V3.0 also only max 27dbm:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32531836861.html
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:33 am
by Oober
If I recall, sometimes 30 dbm option would have been present when using original US firmware. I could test US settings for Gargoyle.
Not so familiar with the command line, but are these right commands?
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uci set wireless.radio0.country=US
uci set wireless.radio1.country=US
uci commit wireless
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:39 pm
by RomanHK
The commands are correct, but in my opinion, this will not help you (I recommend restarting the router for the changes to take effect).
I still warn, do not violate the established standards and performance for your location! Gargoyle is a community that follows established standards and laws.
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 11:57 am
by Oober
RomanHK wrote:The commands are correct, but in my opinion, this will not help you (I recommend restarting the router for the changes to take effect).
I still warn, do not violate the established standards and performance for your location! Gargoyle is a community that follows established standards and laws.
Dont worry. I will not use illegal settings, only check available settings.
I now tested with US location, and 30 dbm is really there for higher channels. There must be a bug/extra restriction either in OpenWrt or Gargoyle code?
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:30 pm
by RomanHK
The location selection is made only once, after the default configuration. However, the selection is based on known information (mtd partition, u-boot environment, WiFi card environment) - but it is not entirely objective.
If you are from Finland, I recommend manually changing the location to FI:
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uci set wireless.radio0.country=FI
uci set wireless.radio1.country=FI
uci commit wireless
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:55 pm
by Oober
RomanHK wrote:The location selection is made only once, after the default configuration. However, the selection is based on known information (mtd partition, u-boot environment, WiFi card environment) - but it is not entirely objective.
If you are from Finland, I recommend manually changing the location to FI:
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uci set wireless.radio0.country=FI
uci set wireless.radio1.country=FI
uci commit wireless
Yes, I did it already. But the original question still exists - where is the 30 dbm option when using FI location?
Re: Archer C7 v2 and 5GHz Transmit Power
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:09 pm
by RomanHK
So if you really have a machine that can do 30dbm, then for the FI region there will be a bug in wireless-regdb - so I'll refer you to OpenWrt, there will be a need to solve this problem - Gargoyle is a "GUI" for OpenWrt.
Changes and news for wireless-regdb database here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... regdb.git/