What wifi router to buy?

[EthBlazeX]

The MT6000 looks impressive on paper.
Does anyone have any clues how it is performing comparing to WRT1200/1900/3200 if we are talking about unilising WAN bandwidth using quota & QoS?
Thanks.

P.S. NVM, ordered it. I hope device with recent 4 x 2GHz cores
CPU could not be slower then my current WRT1200 with 10 yesrs old 2 x 1.3GHz cores CPU.

How's the performance for WAN bandwidth with QoS enabled compared to your old WRT1200?

[fifonik]

Unfortunately, I'm not the best person to test it.
My WAN connection is not too fast (it is only 100/20) and the new router can fully utilize it as well as the old one (with QoS, Quota & BW mon - ON).

[fifonik]

Hi fifonik,

Have you received your MT6000? How is it?

Works fine with the latest gargoyle firmware (1.15.x). Was stable for a few months but recently it is crashed.
It is possible that this was caused by known issue with Mediatek Filogic chipset and potencially could be fixed by turning off TCP segmentation.
I have not tried to do this as this happened only once for me.

[pythonic]

It is possible that this was caused by known issue with Mediatek Filogic chipset and potencially could be fixed by turning off TCP segmentation.

Got a link to the details?

[fifonik]

I've read about this on non-English web site. Would you like to have a link to that article (the article about choosing modern router for OpenWRT and only one small section related to the issue is in the middle of it)?

However, there were also published some links to related issue tickets:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/12143
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13122
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13262

And a link to commit with fix:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/comm ... a2828e68db

And a workaround for disabling TCP segmentation.
To check if segmentation is on:

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root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool -k eth0 | grep segment
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
	tx-tcp-segmentation: on
	tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: on
	tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: on
	tx-tcp6-segmentation: on

To turn it off:

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ethtool -K eth0 tso off

Hope this helps.

[pythonic]

However, there were also published some links to related issue tickets:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/12143
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13122
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13262

Thanks for these links - it seems to not be a universal problem, but for those who encounter it it can be easy to trigger. Knowing how to reliably reproduce it seems to be a bit of a conundrum though...

I don't think the ethtool package is normally built for Gargoyle; hopefully the OpenWrt 23.05 package (matching Gargoyle 1.15.x) works satisfactorily if needed.