avtella
Very Senior Member
For those of you who don't like the stock firmware and/or are getting bad buffer bloat scores (I get B-C with streamboost) you can try hnyman's LEDE builds for the R7800. I am getting A grades on the DSL Reports bufferbloat test with the Piece of Cake option in SQM settings and file transfer speeds in some cases are actually slightly better than stock. My Dell E6230 with a 3x3 "n" Intel 6300 adapter gets around 28MB/s one floor directly below the router (~10-12ft) on 1GB test file transfers to my NAS on stock firmware while I get around 32-34MB/s on the 17.01 LEDE build. I have used it for over a week without any issues.
Be warned, it may not be for everyone as it's not as user friendly as stock and some features available on stock (ie monthly data usage) need to be installed manually via the software packages section.
hnyman's R7800 LEDE community builds thread on LEDE Forums:
https://forum.lede-project.org/t/build-for-netgear-r7800/316 (posted with permission from hnyman)
Install the 17.01 builds rather than master (bleeding edge) for stability.
hnyman also has builds for the WNDR3800 as well.
Be warned, it may not be for everyone as it's not as user friendly as stock and some features available on stock (ie monthly data usage) need to be installed manually via the software packages section.
hnyman's R7800 LEDE community builds thread on LEDE Forums:
https://forum.lede-project.org/t/build-for-netgear-r7800/316 (posted with permission from hnyman)
Install the 17.01 builds rather than master (bleeding edge) for stability.
hnyman also has builds for the WNDR3800 as well.
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