kamoj
Very Senior Member
Thank you for all feedback. (If you like it press the "like" button...)
Unfortunately I must agree with some critics of the Netgear software.
Their support quality has been much criticized as well.
BUT...
I still think the Netgear R7800 is a good router:
1. All congestion control options are implemented by @Voxel. I just added a GUI to change it.
2. NSS is a dual core part of the cpu that takes care of shuffling network packages, offloading the 2 Krait cores.
(https://www.qualcomm.com/products/ipq8065)
It's only for the R7800. I added it to experiment with how much speed it takes without NSS.
I'll probably remove this in next add-on version...
3. The an_router_flag is accessed in many of Netgears html-pages, so it's too much to describe here.
If you are interested, search all .htm and .html files in /www/
4. If you have to ask about the network options - don't change them ;-)
You can "google it" and you might find it fun to play with them when you understand what they do.
Unfortunately I must agree with some critics of the Netgear software.
Their support quality has been much criticized as well.
BUT...
I still think the Netgear R7800 is a good router:
- Good Qualcomm chip-sets that don't get really hot
- Fan-less
- Very good WiFi coverage and speed
- Handles Gigabit ethernet without any cpu usage/problem at all (thanks to the NSS)
- Fast cpu giving 120+ Mbps OpenVPN
- USB3
- SATA3
- You can run @Voxel firmware, giving you lots of goodies, e.g.
- Entware
- Debian
- Up to date software packages, e.g. openSSL
- Up to date security patches
- Support for Kamoj add-on - Best software support available through the master himself: @Voxel
1. All congestion control options are implemented by @Voxel. I just added a GUI to change it.
2. NSS is a dual core part of the cpu that takes care of shuffling network packages, offloading the 2 Krait cores.
(https://www.qualcomm.com/products/ipq8065)
It's only for the R7800. I added it to experiment with how much speed it takes without NSS.
I'll probably remove this in next add-on version...
3. The an_router_flag is accessed in many of Netgears html-pages, so it's too much to describe here.
If you are interested, search all .htm and .html files in /www/
4. If you have to ask about the network options - don't change them ;-)
You can "google it" and you might find it fun to play with them when you understand what they do.
Hey
@Voxel Want to thank you for making my life a bit simpler and for improving my quality of internet. hehe.
I am sadly stuck with this pos 7800 x4s for 2-3 more months and the netgear software is absolute pure sh*t. Luckily I will have my ubiquiti setup back in few months. But in the meantime your firmware has been a savoir for the x4s and actually made it halfway decent for a all in one consumer grade router.
@kamoj Want to thank you as well for simplifying my life and improving the features of the router. The Signal Strength of all the connected clients is huge. I could not believe that it was not a feature that was built into the router with its stock firmware. The only way I could find the info before was by going to the debug.htm and running the log then saving it and opening the console log file but over half the time that would cause issues with the router and none of the 192.168.1.1 pages would work and it would cause my ethernet connected pc to lose connection but yet wifi still worked. So i would always have to restart the router to get it fully working again.
I do have a few questions for you though.
1.For the congestion control options can you tell me exactly which version each one is as most if not all of those have different variants to them and I am trying to decide which one would be best for certain gaming applications and for when I do heavy downloading. So if you could give me which variant to each one you have implented and maybe a brief description of each one would be greatly appreciated.
2. What is Disable NSS Network SubSystem Accelerator for ipv4/6- I tried to google this information but it was very scarce and mainly talked about part of the network structure for cellular.
3. Set an_router_flag in nvram to indicate 802.11a and 802.11n capability- what is this option and what does it do exactly
4. can you elaborate on what each of the network options do
Again thank you for the amazing addon and I hope to hear back from you soon.
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