Fork 380.57 HGG-FINAL

[SaltyBalls]

Hey Cake, thanks for the advice! Yes, I did a full factory reset after installing and changed no settings other than security.

Is it possible that this firmware has contributed to the temp rising by 10%?

I think that I'm still seeing stability issues with 2.4Ghz, so does that mean I should go back to an older build anyway?

 

[Cake]

Not sure Salty, I belong in the kiddie pool metaphorically speaking.
On my AC68U I disabled hardware acceleration, also I disabled 5ghz since I don't use it. I used the firmware in the folder labeled older driver in the downloaded zip.
Both firmwares if I remember have the same file name, but in separate folders. Thats weird that your cpu usage jumps around. Did you ssh into it, and type top or htop to see what is using it?
Hope you get it sorted, 110 must be approaching the thermal limits. :-(

I just cranked the wifi to 100%, and I enabled max coverage.
I got about 1000ft range. Someone in my village has a ubiquity device up on a mast above their house, that thing has about 1500ft range!
It was about 500ft before changing firmware to hgg.

 

[Matthew Patrick]

Not sure Salty, I belong in the kiddie pool metaphorically speaking.
On my AC68U I disabled hardware acceleration, also I disabled 5ghz since I don't use it. I used the firmware in the folder labeled older driver in the downloaded zip.
Both firmwares if I remember have the same file name, but in separate folders. Thats weird that your cpu usage jumps around. Did you ssh into it, and type top or htop to see what is using it?
Hope you get it sorted, 110 must be approaching the thermal limits. :-(

I just cranked the wifi to 100%, and I enabled max coverage.
I got about 1000ft range. Someone in my village has a ubiquity device up on a mast above their house, that thing has about 1500ft range!
It was about 500ft before changing firmware to hgg.

Wait what? On AC68U? On 2.4Ghz? 1000ft? Wow. Can u try 5ghz with the normal max speed mode. Then on 100% tx. Thx

 

[kvic]

Which goes all the way back to Asus - it's their GPL distro - and I appreciate and applaud their efforts to the community - but pirates are what they are...

SNB's downward spiral into a pirate bay..? If so, it's the consensus of the commons - both the vocal or the silent are considered spoken.

Most points on GPL violation have been debated and explained. By now clear to majority of active members hopefully. It's waiting for the man - hggomes to action: deliver his source code or stop the distribution of hgg fork.

 

[alessandro893]

380.57.6

802.11d Regulation bug was fixed!


THX.

 

[Matthew Patrick]

380.57.6

802.11d Regulation was fixed!

Yup. If u make the regulation disable from GUI and use my last script. And reboot. Will it auto enable it and auto set the country?

 

[DJBeat]

Please Fw for AC5300 thanks

 

[Blinkyz]

Apologies in advance, but I'm new here. Six hours ago I upgraded my RT-AC68U to 380-57-hgg-final and my CPU seems to be cooking. I'm not doing much other than very light internet use, but the CPU temp reading is consistently 110 C and the CPU core utilisation is bouncing all over the place.

Should I be concerned?

I've been using Merlin's 380.57 for a few weeks, however 2.4Ghz has been too unstable. From memory CPU temperatures used to be around 98 C which still seems hot, but then it is summer here in Australia and the house doesn't have any cooling. Today's a mild 32 C which is less than the last few weeks.

So it is safe to have the CPU temp sitting on 110 C, and is it normal for the CPU activity across the two cores to be so erratic when I'm not placing any load on the router?

Its too much HOT
What was your temps before upgrade? did you know?
Normal temps for ac68 between 65 C and 85C and at full load you can reach 90-95C but not on idle

 

[alessandro893]

Apologies in advance, but I'm new here. Six hours ago I upgraded my RT-AC68U to 380-57-hgg-final and my CPU seems to be cooking. I'm not doing much other than very light internet use, but the CPU temp reading is consistently 110 C and the CPU core utilisation is bouncing all over the place.

Should I be concerned?

I've been using Merlin's 380.57 for a few weeks, however 2.4Ghz has been too unstable. From memory CPU temperatures used to be around 98 C which still seems hot, but then it is summer here in Australia and the house doesn't have any cooling. Today's a mild 32 C which is less than the last few weeks.

So it is safe to have the CPU temp sitting on 110 C, and is it normal for the CPU activity across the two cores to be so erratic when I'm not placing any load on the router?

+ it is new ability
You can cook a food or boil water on your cpu!

 

[bigcid10]

Hey Cake, thanks for the advice! Yes, I did a full factory reset after installing and changed no settings other than security.

Is it possible that this firmware has contributed to the temp rising by 10%?

I think that I'm still seeing stability issues with 2.4Ghz, so does that mean I should go back to an older build anyway?

Did you overclock it?
my 3200 is running at 58C at normal usage and 65C heavy load
and I'm clocked at 1400

 

[L&LD]

Apologies in advance, but I'm new here. Six hours ago I upgraded my RT-AC68U to 380-57-hgg-final and my CPU seems to be cooking.

Which version specifically? The latest firmware is now at 380.57.6, btw.

Just checked a couple of customers router's and no heat issues there.

 

[RogerSC]

I use hgg standard 380.57.5 driver om my ac68u and it seems to work fine. What's the advantage with the old driver?

On my RT-AC68P I don't use 2.4GHz. much, but I do need it a little. With the new wireless driver 2.4GHz. wireless acts really strangely with CTF and FA enabled, but is fine with the old driver. About the same thing happened to me with RMerlin's 380.57_0.

Glad the standard (new) wireless driver is working for you.

 

[sfx2000]

Most points on GPL violation have been debated and explained. By now clear to majority of active members hopefully. It's waiting for the man - hggomes to action: deliver his source code or stop the distribution of hgg fork.

It's going to be interesting for him (@hggomes ) - will he trust someone asking for a firmware download - tracking back IP addresses and finding him - perhaps to serve papers to appear in court for a civil lawsuit regarding the GPL violations?

Can't hide on the internet...

 

[Nullity]

It's going to be interesting for him (@hggomes ) - will he trust someone asking for a firmware download - tracking back IP addresses and finding him - perhaps to serve papers to appear in court for a civil lawsuit regarding the GPL violations?

Can't hide on the internet...

hgg isn't financially benefitting and he is only a person, not a company. There are much bigger fish to fry.

Maybe they will sue him and ask for 20% of the "likes" he has received for releasing this firmware...

 

[sfx2000]

hgg isn't financially benefitting and he is only a person, not a company. There are much bigger fish to fry.

Maybe they will sue him and ask for 20% of the "likes" he has received for releasing this firmware...

Actually, he is liable for his work - his assets will cover the costs of chasing him down.. and I have the personal resources to do so... and he can make it stop - right, now... - provide the source, or simply state that he will cease and desist any further development/distribution of software that violates GPL, and then do it.

It's work like his that pretty much convinced the FCC to investigate locking down things and threatening the entire 802.11 FOSS community.

That's my purpose as to why I'm being a bit persistent, and becoming less polite as time progresses...

 

[L&LD]

Actually, he is liable for his work - his assets will cover the costs of chasing him down.. and I have the personal resources to do so... and he can make it stop - right, now... - provide the source, or simply state that he will cease and desist any further development/distribution of software that violates GPL, and then do it.

It's work like his that pretty much convinced the FCC to investigate locking down things and threatening the entire 802.11 FOSS community.

That's my purpose as to why I'm being a bit persistent, and becoming less polite as time progresses...

And please, once again, please do it via PM. Not on a public forum.

This is not what I come to the forum for and I'm sure others feel the same.

 

[Cake]

Wait what? On AC68U? On 2.4Ghz? 1000ft? Wow. Can u try 5ghz with the normal max speed mode. Then on 100% tx. Thx

Ok I did some better tests today. I had a helper to be my pigeon bird. I used Google earth to measure distance.
I found one device that would play along with me at 5Ghz, its a laptop so I am sure there is a antenna near the screen attached to the adapter on the mainboard. The routers antenna's are orientated at different angles. Its location is about 20ft above ground surrounded by single pane windows/walls with no insulation to outside of house.

Laptop using a ubuntu generic driver:
5Ghz, Max coverage enabled, power 100%, 20 Mhz channel bandwidth -- 429ft
2.4Ghz, Max coverage enabled, power 100%, 20/40Mhz bandwidth, 600ft before disconnecting, then reconnecting at 400ft.

Changed hardware on router and testing device:
2.4Ghz, antenna from a tp-link 2.4ghz router, 1 factory antenna in middle, a (3X longer) 9dBi 2.4Ghz ebay antenna, all orientated vertically. I shut down 5Ghz on router. I used a Samsung Android tablet.

2.4Ghz, Max coverage, power 100%, 20/40 bandwidth, my pigeon got to 1,400ft away from the house. I had the tablet setup to view the wireless log in the router refreshing every second.

That coverage is crazy. I think that ebay antenna makes a world of difference and I would say my laptop may not be as good as some of the android devices when it comes to weak signals or transmitting power..
Sorry Matt I forgot to try 5Ghz at performance.
Edit: I should add there is only 1 other AP running 2.4Ghz feq and I do not overlap his. My RSSI floor/noise is -92dBa

 

[sfx2000]

And please, once again, please do it via PM. Not on a public forum.

This is not what I come to the forum for and I'm sure others feel the same.

GNU Public License... simply put

 

[L&LD]

GNU Public License... simply put

That does not give you the right to spam this site.

 

[Cake]

Ohh I like this-
380.57.6 changelog.txt
...
NEW: OpenVPN XOR obfuscation and UTUN support.
...

scrambled OpenVPN-
Spent some time to try it out. It works as far as I can tell. If anybody else is in a great firewall grey zone this guide got me 70% of the way there.
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I should add if I change obfusicate word in the client of router (put the wrong word in), I will get TLS handshake errors in the log. So I think it works. I'm overjoyed.
What I find interesting is the amount of money spent on DPI equipment, then it gets defeated by a some clever folks who share their work. Why bother. I bet all that DPI equipment going in worldwide costs a fortune.
Thank you HGG.