Overclocking ar71xx

[robnitro]

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=38777

This thread explains how they overclock the ar7161 chip on the Buffalo ag300nh, same model as the g300nh, but a different frequency.

I'm not too keen on how to compile my own kernel, so can someone with a g300nh show me how?

[DoesItMatter]

Be advised that it is VERY easy to brick hardware like this.

Brick as in, you cannot even get in via Serial recovery.

It's not really worth it to overclock routers.

[robnitro]

According to that thread, if it fails, the recovery tftp feature still works.

All I know is that with FIOS 75/35 service I can saturate the router if the download is coming from a torrent with many connections. Even disabling bwmon doesn't help much.

I did change the dnsmasq script to nice -n -15 as when the router was maxed out, pages didn't want to load, even though torrents were set to lowest qos dn and up priority! I figured that the cpu load of the router was lagging DNS lookups.

[robnitro]

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/12891#ticket

Ticket created. I tested it again just now, putting dnsmasq at a negative nice number fixes the problem when the router cpu is swamped!