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Is orbi pro sxk80 any better than sxk50 in AP mode ?
So the setup was horrible but I now know that firmware update is required BEFORE swap to AP mode. Can also live with the horribly painful sequence of 43 network resets as each parameter configured. ...
Beta FW V4.3.0.139 is three times faster than 122 FW for SXR50 !!
Iperf is a bit flaky relative to the SMB traffic I care about but large transfer multi-thread is close. This is also 3X improvement, old firmware struggled to get 200Mbits connected to router.
iperf-3.1.3-win64>iperf3.exe -p 5501 -l 1M -P 2 -c 192.168.2.12
[ 6] 0.00-10.00 sec 369 MBytes 310 Mbits/sec receiver
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 780 MBytes 654 Mbits/sec sender
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 780 MBytes 654 Mbits/sec receiverI actually see 60-75MB/S because wifi is of course kind of random depending on neighbors etc and I have about 30Mbit/s background traffic on other band. My baseline old AP result was 40-70MB with latter same room only so this FW changed SXR50 from half my current speed to almost double for client connected to satellite 30 feet from router.
This has saved an Orbi from the trash bin.
THANK YOU.
we have new and early qualified beta firmware to improve overall performance. We target to release in mid of Oct. Please have a try to see if improved.
[In Beta] SXK50 beta firmware version 4.3.0.139 - NETGEAR Communities
Oh that's great I will try it out.
I have noticed that I can improve throughput by a few MBytes/s if I correct the IRQ smp mapping to keep wifi and ethernet on separate cores and kill a few useless daemons.( upnp for instance is useless in AP mode ). Makes CPU max at about 95% instead of 100% but still isn't quite right -- obviously I don't fully understand which IRQ's are which.
Based on older atheros devices I suspect making the ebroute default "drop" ( so traffic goes through nss ) might help too but was not confident enough to try.
Obviously none of that acceptable for production AP was trying to figure out if better FW was possible, fantastic to see it so fast.
Sorry moderator please delete my last response I was too excited about new FW and didn't think. It could be quite misleading for other readers since idle time is bad way to measure throughput -- 51% could be worst case.
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