[OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWrt-Tickets] [OpenWrt] #20685: Weak Wi-Fi signal E1700 (MT7620A)

[Toan Pham]

Hi,

I tested OpenWrt trunk version on the E1700 five months ago.  At that time,
openwrt (or the vendor) claimed that all of all ethernet ports are gibabit
ports (ref.  https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_e1700)
However, All four ports showed up as 100Mb, not Gbps ports, on Chaos Calmer
build.  Please let me know if you're experiencing the same thing, if so,
should we update Openwrt product spec webpage to reflect the actual link
speed?

I also found wifi on the e1700 hardware unbearable.  That's why I had to
revert back to OEM firmware.



TP

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> If this didn't get any better with on recent LEDE builds after commit
> https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commit;h=
> b367eef21dccbc5115778001955847ac3af47db8
> it's most likely the issue is due to missing external PA init in the
> rt2x00 driver. I'm currently fixing the most of the obvious problems
> with rt2x00 on MT7620, but there are too many to get this done within
> a weekend and a kickstarter bounty of EUR 200. External PA currently
> isn't on the list of things I give priority to because none of the
> boards I've seen are using this feature. Please retry with the current
> LEDE build, if that doesn't fix the issue, let me know.
>
> I'll fix external PA if you are willing to help testing on the device
> you own and obviously I'd appreciate if you throw something into my
> hat for that tedious work on a not-very-well designed wifi chip and
> a driver which has grown beyond reasonable size...
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1327597961/better-
> support-for-mt7620a-n-in-openwrt-lede/
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Daniel
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 03:07:02PM +0000, Sam Charania wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did this ever get resolved?
> >
> > I would like to help resolve it so please advise ASAP.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
>
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