BPI-R3 1Gbps Wireless

Banana Pi BPI-R4/BPI-R3 Mini/BPI-R3/BPI-R64/BPI-R2 OpenWRT
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After enabling Packet Steering it actually helped the Wireless connection to be more stable, no more than 300mbps, but it’s way more stable now, and after enabling Hardware flow offloading, it actually did not help, it fluctuated too much, I tested only the Wi-Fi connection, so not sure how it works on cable.

Now, could elaborate on the:

I’m not sure how to enable this, and I did not find anything after searching for a while, but after all of this, I’m pretty convinced it probably is something on my laptop side.

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Just to inform, I’ve just finished installing Win11, installed all drivers aaaand… Same result. So I’m doomed, not sure what to do :smiley:, I think I’ll leave it be.

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I have 3 PC with AX200, AX210 and AX201. I don’t know if it is related but after upgrading on last OpenWRT snapshot I have noticed that 5Ghz wireless performance is worse and very inconsistent on these PCs (anyway the one with the AX201 is the worst and I never go over do 1Gbs, with the AX200 and AX210 a reach 1.7Gbps). In contrast, smartphones works smoothly. On PCs speed went up and down from few hunfred megabits to few megabits and the connection steer in continuos from 5Ghz to 2.4Ghz (2 meters from the router).
So I manually reset the 5Ghz radio, set up it to channel to 36 and restarted the interface on the R3. Now things seems returned normal.

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2.4Ghz as expect is worse than 5Ghz in my case. But honestly I’m not worrying about this, it would be cool if I found out what is causing this ‘bottleneck’, but 300mbps is more than enough for navigation in general.

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For Internet navigation 300Mbps may be ok. But I’m using the R3 as a temp NAS so more speed it is really useful. 300Mbit is less or more 30Mbyte/sec, it is good but 100-150Mbyte/sec is much better. Anyway for large data transfer may be used wired connections.

I hope you can solve this issue on your laptop with a future driver or snapshot update.

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Hi all! Your speeds is very strange. That what I have on only 80 MHz channel, between laptop and router 1m distance and wall:

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iperf tests 80 MHz 
C:\Portable\iperf-3.1.3-win64>iperf3 -c bpi -R
Connecting to host bpi, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host bpi is sending
[  4] local 192.168.75.246 port 59263 connected to 192.168.75.1 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec  59.6 MBytes   500 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec  62.7 MBytes   526 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec  65.8 MBytes   553 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  64.1 MBytes   537 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec  64.7 MBytes   543 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec  64.1 MBytes   538 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  63.8 MBytes   535 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  64.6 MBytes   541 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  64.8 MBytes   545 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec  64.4 MBytes   540 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   640 MBytes   537 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   639 MBytes   536 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

C:\Portable\iperf-3.1.3-win64>iperf3 -c bpi
Connecting to host bpi, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.75.246 port 59319 connected to 192.168.75.1 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec  50.8 MBytes   424 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec  50.5 MBytes   425 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec  51.9 MBytes   435 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  50.5 MBytes   423 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec  50.2 MBytes   421 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec  48.1 MBytes   405 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  47.9 MBytes   402 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  49.2 MBytes   412 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  49.5 MBytes   416 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec  48.5 MBytes   405 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   497 MBytes   417 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   497 MBytes   417 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

C:\Portable\iperf-3.1.3-win64>

OpenWRT SNAPSHOT - r22594-5ec781c444

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Good day, Alexey. I tried it again with iperf3, but the same thing happened. Since my phone and laptop may not be fully capable of handling these speeds, I would need to get my hands on something that can handle Wireless Gigabit to test this out. Thank you for your concern :smiley:

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Not related to the issue but WED can improve download speed on faster devices:

[OpenWrt Wiki] Linksys E8450 (aka. Belkin RT3200)

The instructions are for other devices but works on PBI-R3.

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I think some of you need to upgrade the wifi modules in your devices… this isnt even my other two devices that are in the 2,000Mbits range. I’m running OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r23408-008cc836fe

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actually now i look at it… i need to look at the Beelink GTR5 I have and set it to 160MHz…

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Does BPI-R3 actually support 160 MHz? Wow