after about 3 days of using Openwrt as my main router, I'm noticing regular freezes and the internet speed dropping to like 1MB (this is a 30MB fibre optic line or whatever Virgin Media normally do), especially when I start downloading multiple torrentsanyone else deal with shit like this?It's a TP-Link Archer C7 v4I really like the idea of an open source router OS so I'm probably gonna try buying a way more powerful router, this one only has like 128MB RAM afaict but that seemed like a lot to me until I really began pushing it
>>106564058Unless you've tinkered with settings and installed a bunch of stuff, ram is enough. My fritzbox has 256 and I'm using a huge adblock filterlist as well as sqm on it, without issues.It's either a wifi issue (sometimes openwrt struggles with some wireless chip with shitty drivers from the oem) or your isp is just giving you shit internet. Maybe try sqm too.
>>106564303it's all ethernet. haven't tinkered with shit. didn't even get round to doing anything cool like adding secure dns or whatever. this is all standard settings, everything is updated too (i.e. through the package manager).i might get a xiaomi ax3000t, i keep hearing theyre the hot shit for openwrt.
>>106564320Never update through the package manager. Could cause issues. You're supposed to update by flashing a new openwrt version. There is the attended sysupgrade package to help you doing that in an easier way.Other than that you should ask in their forums. Archers are pretty common routers so if there are known issues they will know. They also have an irc chat if you don't want to register an account. I've always got my answers there.
>>106564357first I've heard this. I'm talking about updating shit like luci. if that's bad, then why is it even available by default? sorry nigga, that shit don't make no sense
>>106564378https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/upgrade_packages_warningUpdating has always been discouraged unless it's a full reflash of the firmware. I don't know the technical reasons. Just that it should not be treated as your typical linux distro.
>>106564058funnily enough i have an Archer C7 with OpenWRT as well but it's not the v4 so that could make a difference. i also have ~50mb fiber but haven't had any issues, i'm in a different part of the world tho. basically the only thing i've done on mine is set up SQM/QoS. look into that if you haven't yet. i forget what it does exactly but it basically keeps the connection more stable under load.
>>106564378Fuck Luci. It is so ugly. Horrible. No thank you. >>106564437Yeah I tried to update and it almost bricked my device. I had to use an ethernet cord connected to my router to a laptop to burn an iso to usb to then reinstall on another computer because I forgot the password and then from there I had to do some weird DNS and IP stuff and it got me to a recovery gui. Then I flashed recovery image and thank God it fixed. Not much info on it out there either.
>>106564058>TP-Link Archer C7 v4it's weak
>>106564554This is part of the reasons why my next router will 100% be an SBC, probably one of the nanopi series. If anything breaks the solution is always as easy as pulling out the sd card and dd a new image on it. Openwrt is amazing and I would never go back to using a router with stock firmware, but I've always felt worried about updating and changing settings on it because of the risk of bricking and the prospect of a difficult recovery (while being left without internet and having to look up info from my phone). Attended sysupgrades have somewhat mitigated some issues, and I no longer have to rely on a shitty post installation bash script to configure my settings while crossing my fingers, but I'm still anxious about the whole process.
>>106564058ssh in and start diagnosing while you are having the issue. you haven't even tried to see if it is overloaded.
>>106564058Mine works perfectly fine, but I am using a raspberryPi as my router so I have 8x more RAM than you.
>>106564058>I really like the idea of an open source router OSit's called openbsd you fucking retardOPENWRT IS A MEME TINKERTROON TOY PROJECT>OPENWRT IS A MEME TINKERTROON TOY PROJECT
>>106564058I really dont get the idea of paying for a router specifically for OpenWRT.If you are interested in such thing, most probably you are somewhat of a "powahuser" who will try to get the most out of it.And honestly, it's pretty moronic to complain about limited ram, cpu etc at that point.> I'm probably gonna try buying a way more powerful routergo buy a real computer that can compute, or even better use a spare laptop like me. Addition to setting up it as a router, you can host anything without a worrying about anything.>B-but what about the eletricity bill Chud...Yeah ignore the fact how much a expensive chink router has costed you instead of using your laptop, and whine about the extra $2 in your bill.Not even taking it into consideration that you can optimize a laptop's power consumption in linux anyway.
>>106564058This may come as a surprise to you, but OpenWRT is dogshit software. It's free and runs on inexpensive Chinese junk so people use it. But the code quality is objectively terrible, the UI is schizophrenic (try doing anything beyond the most basic of shit).If you want a big boy router buy a cheap PC off eBay for like $30 (one of those Dell or IBM thin things would do), add a second ethernet card, and install OPNSense or OpenBSD on it.
I think they fixed this but check if you have EEE enabled on its NICsMine would drop connection randomly until I disabled that with ethtool
>>106569827This i literally use 4x gook spyware routers and haven't had a single issue for 2yrs and I have to use Google translate lolTried openwrt for 20 years it's always been shit
>>106569827the whole point is to not have a pc with 12 fans for your router. what exactly is openwrt bad at? what complicated thing did you have trouble with?
>>106569827maybe this is "basic shit" but as a techlet I was able to set up a wireless access point that served multiple vlans with individual ssids and I thought that was pretty cool
since this is the router thread.can someone talk me out of this chinkshit?
>>106571182that looks sick
>>106564058https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/isp-configurations#fibre_optic try adjusting your configuration with what is suggested here>>106564567its weak yeah but its should be able to handle a 30mbps line
>>106564691>This is part of the reasons why my next router will 100% be an SBC, probably one of the nanopi series. If anything breaks the solution is always as easy as pulling out the sd card and dd a new image on it.If anything breaks on OPNsense/pfSense, the solution is as easy as restoring a root ZFS snapshot, local or remote, using SSDs or virtual storage, rather than slow as shit SD cards. Your perceived advantages of an SBC router will do nothing but paint you into a corner.
>>106571857>30mbpsits 300mbpsit's 30MB/s
>>106564058Get a job and get something proper like Mikrotik you unemployed hobbyists
>>106573060oh look it's the mikrocuck shill
>>106564357>>106564378>>106564437its because the default filesystem for embedded devices (squashfs) is read only, so updates are added to the ramdisknothing harmful but not optimalthis obviously doesnt apply if youre using ext4
