Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Joe Touch wrote: Some questions: On 7/6/2015 11:16 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: ... You can flash back the factory firmware without serial, you just use sysupgrade with the Linksys factory image. How does that differ from mtd, e.g., as indicated here (which doesn't

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-10 Thread Joe Touch
On Jul 10, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Joe Touch wrote: Some questions: On 7/6/2015 11:16 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: ... You can flash back the factory firmware without serial, you just use sysupgrade with the Linksys factory

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-10 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/10/2015 1:01 AM, Sebastian Moeller wrote: ... You can flash back the factory firmware without serial, you just use sysupgrade with the Linksys factory image. How does that differ from mtd, e.g., as indicated here (which doesn't mention sysinstall)?: ... Can you explain where the info

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-08 Thread Sebastian Moeller
Hi Joe, On Jul 8, 2015, at 20:37 , Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: Hi, Matt, On 7/7/2015 11:19 AM, Matt Taggart wrote:... This message made me realize I hadn't posted the CC+SQM HOWTO I wrote, maybe it will be useful, https://we.riseup.net/lackof/openwrt FWIW, this is a big step in

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-08 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Sebastian, On 7/8/2015 1:15 PM, Sebastian Moeller wrote: Hi Joe, On Jul 8, 2015, at 20:37 , Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: ... The other step, IMO, would be two flags in the OpenWRT list of hardware: - a flag/color that indicates that the most recent hardware rev supports BB

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-08 Thread Rich Brown
Thanks all for the comments. Sebastian has indicated our direction well. Here are more details about our process for making the Table of Hardware less inscrutable. We are updating the Table of Hardware (ToH) of the OpenWrt wiki to be generated from a series of Technical data templates. We have

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Joe Touch wrote: - CC-rc2 doesn't have a WRT1200AC build presumably I should have used mvebu-armada-385-linksys-caiman, but it's not at all clear Yes, that's the one for the WRT1200AC. It's called caiman internally at Linksys it seems.

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Dave Taht
GWB declared victory too early also, so... 0) ubnt's edgerouter series from the X (49 dollars) to the pro - (8 ports, 300 dollars) also has made an investment in making fq_codel and smart queuing easy to use over their last 3 generations of firmware. Vers They are debian based (and closely

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Sebastian Moeller
Hi Joe, I like your snark… And I like Rich’s elegant restraint in his response, always polite always friendly. On Jul 7, 2015, at 06:22 , Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: Hi, Rich, On 7/6/2015 7:23 PM, Rich Brown wrote: Hi Joe, The OpenWrt firmware project is a some assembly required

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Matt Taggart
Rich Brown writes: With that framework in mind, let me respond to your questions. TL;DR - if you just want to fix your home network today and get on with your life, I recommend: - OpenWrt Barrier Breaker (BB) release. As of July 2015, it's the stabl e version. Stay away from CC or

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Joe Touch
Some questions: On 7/6/2015 11:16 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: ... You can flash back the factory firmware without serial, you just use sysupgrade with the Linksys factory image. How does that differ from mtd, e.g., as indicated here (which doesn't mention sysinstall)?:

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Rich Brown wrote: The WNDR3800 remains our gold standard for CeroWrt builds. It'll do SQM up to ~30 mbps, then the CPU runs out of gas. Could someone on this list please quantify what the CPU runs out of gas means? Is this when steaming full-bandwidth? What

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Rich Brown
Matt, This is useful. I will review this and give you comments, and ensure any additional knowledge makes it into the OpenWrt HOWTO's. Thanks. Rich On Jul 7, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Matt Taggart m...@lackof.org wrote: This message made me realize I hadn't posted the CC+SQM HOWTO I wrote, maybe

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-07 Thread Rich Brown
Hi Joe, These are great observations. CeroWrt was boosted enormously by the presence of the powerful and reliable OpenWrt software platform. We were able to make so much progress with bufferbloat because OpenWrt provided a stable platform for our experiments. Nonetheless, the motivations of

[Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I'm posting because of my recent frustration with the claim that bufferbloat solutions have been pushed up into the OpenWRT and commercial routers. I spent the bulk of last weekend trying to find a COTS WIFI router that supported OpenWRT with bufferbloat (SQM) extensions. I tried a

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] failing to find the declared victory in a current wifi router

2015-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Rich, On 7/6/2015 7:23 PM, Rich Brown wrote: Hi Joe, The OpenWrt firmware project is a some assembly required affair. That might be less daunting if there were assembly instructions. I.e., I'm suggesting that the instructions need revision. Work there could have a significant payoff in