386.5 Alpha1?

[DJones]

I was gonna ask where’s the GT-AX11000

Would love to test it on my GT-AX11000 as well once it’s available.

 

[dave14305]

Confirm.
AX86U 386.5 alpha2. Dirty upgrade from 386.4.
Adapitve QOS and FlexQOS 1.3.0 are ON. But it doesn't work at all, like 384 official firmware. The values of Bandwidth Monitor were consistently low.
Dirty downgrade to 386.4. This issues does not exist.
@dave14305

There have always been QoS oddities reported with the AX86U, so I don’t even worry about it anymore. If stock Adaptive QoS doesn’t work as expected, there’s not much I can do to enhance it.

 

[Morris]

Will check that out tomorrow.
Thank you again RMerlin

That issue can be as simple as a host visits a site that references a photo or script on a blocked site.

 

[Smokey613]

Upfated both AC86U to Alpha2, did a hard reset and they are working great in AP mesh mode.

 

[abdullah salahaldin]

Like every one here says....patience . ..we will see it soon

Thanks

 

[pinkgrae]

Alpha2 is a rock solid foundation!

Couldn't agree more. I just upgraded to 386.5_alpha2 on both AC86U router (from 386.4) and AC68U node (from latest stock). Great to see that 386.5 seems to have resolved the issue with guest network 1 not propagating to node properly.

Only hiccup was the router dropped the wan connection ~15 mins after flashing, but reboot has fixed this and all good for a couple of hours now. Might have been something to do with the router having to work hard doing the upgrade whilst simultaneously dealing with what looks like an all-out bot storm attack on the network.

Thanks for all your work RMerlin!

 

[unsynaps]

Alpha2 is a rock solid foundation!

Yeah has not been a day yet but things have been good. Even with some addons.

 

[supe]

It can’t really be CAKE itself, since CAKE is only working on the WAN interface. But maybe the requirement to disable HW acceleration is impacting the LAN to LAN traffic. You can try enabling it manually to see if it restores the LAN throughput. But it’s not a solution, since CAKE won’t work properly with HW acceleration enabled.

fc config --hw-accel 1
archerctl sysport_tm disable
fc enable
fc flush

To reverse all that:

fc config --hw-accel 0
archerctl sysport_tm enable
fc disable
fc flush

Or reboot the router to revert the commands.

Yes, forcing HW acceleration on does restore LAN to LAN transfer speeds, but Cake no longer works correctly.
btw "archerctl sysport_tm enable" responds with "not found"

Oh right (I had me a simple moment) Corect, QoS does NOT impact (LAN<->LAN) transfers sorry, but if you Enable CAKE it has to disable HW acceleration right? You can easily check via... TOOLS> SYSTEM> NETWORK> HW acceleration. For CAKE to function... the Router CPU needs to process the network packets & you loose HW acceleration (Which reduces network speed).

The strange thing is why does this have such a large impact on the AX86U and not the older AC86U. I should note that during LAN transfers the CPU barely gets past 30% and thats only on core1, the other cores are idle.

 

[Morpheus2020]

Could anyone help to test if Adaptive QoS of AX86U 386.5 alpha2 works？
Adaptive QoS with FlexQos doesn't work by my test yesterday. I want to know the status of Adaptive QoS without FlexQoS.

 

[kernol]

Could anyone help to test if Adaptive QoS of AX86U 386.5 alpha2 works？
Adaptive QoS with FlexQos doesn't work by my test yesterday. I want to know the status of Adaptive QoS without FlexQoS.

I have been long time user of Cake - having converted to if after several years of FreshQoS then FlexQos.
I just gave Adaptive QoS a whirl under 386.5_alpha2 - tested - best bufferbloat was a "C" - then installed FlexQoS and tested - best also a "C" - uninstalled FlexQoS leaving Adaptive in place - tested "C" ... reverted to Cake QoS and back to A+ bufferbloat.

LAN speeds definitely impacted by hardware acceleration being turned off by Cake.
See rest of my config details in my signature.

 

[Morpheus2020]

I have been long time user of Cake - having converted to if after several years of FreshQoS then FlexQos.
I just gave Adaptive QoS a whirl under 386.5_alpha2 - tested - best bufferbloat was a "C" - then installed FlexQoS and tested - best also a "C" - uninstalled FlexQoS leaving Adaptive in place - tested "C" ... reverted to Cake QoS and back to A+ bufferbloat.

LAN speeds definitely impacted by hardware acceleration being turned off by Cake.
See rest of my config details in my signature.

Thank you kernol !
If Adaptive QOS is enabled, does "Adaptive QOS-Bandwidth Monitor" show the correct values? If the values showed on the Bandwidth Monitor and Classification is very low, it means that Adaptive QOS is not working. At this time, you measure the network speed, and the speed measurement result will not be affected by the upload and download bandwidth you fill in.


If it can be confirmed that Adaptive QOS of AX86U 386.5 alpha2 does not work, hope RMerlin can fix it.
Thank you RMerlin.

 

[Morpheus2020]

I have been long time user of Cake - having converted to if after several years of FreshQoS then FlexQos.
I just gave Adaptive QoS a whirl under 386.5_alpha2 - tested - best bufferbloat was a "C" - then installed FlexQoS and tested - best also a "C" - uninstalled FlexQoS leaving Adaptive in place - tested "C" ... reverted to Cake QoS and back to A+ bufferbloat.

LAN speeds definitely impacted by hardware acceleration being turned off by Cake.
See rest of my config details in my signature.

Turning off hardware acceleration should only affect the WAN packet forwarding rate, and the performance degradation of LAN should not be related to turning off the hardware acceleration.

 

[Zastoff]

Will check that out tomorrow.
Thank you again RMerlin

Update:
Have gone thru the computers again that give the messages in syslog, checked browsers and again scanned(Malwarebytes) and full cleaning with cc-cleaner.. turned everything off, hard rebooted router and started the devices again but i still get the messages in syslog.
Tried turning off AiProtection.. still get the messages in syslog.
Tried turning off Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters, messages gone!
Turned on AiProtection still no messages
Turned on Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters, messages is back.

Is it something with Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters?
(I have turned off Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters for now to monitor this during the day)
Anyone that can confirm or test this?

Edit:
Rechecked syslog now 6 hours since i turned off Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters, No new messages since then.
(And the devices have been active during this time)

 

[heywire]

Upfated both AC86U to Alpha2, did a hard reset and they are working great in AP mesh mode.

Did you experience any problems before the update?

 

[kernol]

Thank you kernol !
If Adaptive QOS is enabled, does "Adaptive QOS-Bandwidth Monitor" show the correct values? If the values showed on the Bandwidth Monitor and Classification is very low, it means that Adaptive QOS is not working. At this time, you measure the network speed, and the speed measurement result will not be affected by the upload and download bandwidth you fill in.


If it can be confirmed that Adaptive QOS of AX86U 386.5 alpha2 does not work, hope RMerlin can fix it.
Thank you RMerlin.

Confirmed - "Bandwidth Monitor" does not show the correct values for Adaptive QoS - nor for FlexQoS on my RT-AX86U running 386.5_alpha2. I don't believe that proves that Adaptive QoS is "not working" - because when you run tests on https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat the speeds for download and upload reflect the limits of my FTTH package.

Bufferbloat is C and warning on Latency. Remove QoS altogether and the speeds increase marginally - but so does latency and bloat.

Cake brings everything into line with A+ bloat and excellent low latencies - down and up.

Turning off hardware acceleration should only affect the WAN packet forwarding rate, and the performance degradation of LAN should not be related to turning off the hardware acceleration.

Agreed - it should not impact - but it does. Easy to replicate - turn Cake on - test - turn Cake off - test.

That's my bundle - I'm back on Cake by preference anyway - but hope the above helps those playing with the other QoS options. Cake results below ...

 

[Smokey613]

Did you experience any problems before the update?

No I did not. Running them in AP mode does not stress them anyway so I did not expect much if any difference.

 

[maxbraketorque]

386.5a2 installed on AC86U main/AP combo this morning. All good for the last few hours.

 

[Bent_wrench]

Problems after updating. I have an RT-AX58U. I was on Merlin 386.4 and getting drops from TP-Link 2.4 GHz and Nest 5 GHz devices. I rebooted, then updated to Alpha 2. Started having a weird issue where devices on my 5 GHz wireless connect to the router, but can't access the internet. 2.4 GHz devices work fine. I did a hard reset and reconfigured my Centurylink PPPoE connection, WiFi SSID, other than that, it's a vanilla setup with defaults. That didn't help, I'm having the same issue. Any ideas on what could be wrong?

 

[RMerlin]

Is it something with Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters?
(I have turned off Parental Controls - Web & Apps Filters for now to monitor this during the day)
Anyone that can confirm or test this?

As I told you before, everything is working as expected. You enabled Web & Apps Filtering, (which just like Malicious Website Blocking, will block access to certain websites), and this is what is getting logged in your system log, as access to that specified site is getting blocked.

 

[skeal]

Problems after updating. I have an RT-AX58U. I was on Merlin 386.4 and getting drops from TP-Link 2.4 GHz and Nest 5 GHz devices. I rebooted, then updated to Alpha 2. Started having a weird issue where devices on my 5 GHz wireless connect to the router, but can't access the internet. 2.4 GHz devices work fine. I did a hard reset and reconfigured my Centurylink PPPoE connection, WiFi SSID, other than that, it's a vanilla setup with defaults. That didn't help, I'm having the same issue. Any ideas on what could be wrong?

By hard reset do you mean reset to factory defaults?