Xwr-3150 Firmware

[Hennie Jaffe]

TLDR summary: My Luxul Epic 3 / XWR-3150v2 router has very bad range when using OpenWRT compared to stock firmware. I tried a bunch of settings and tests, but couldn't get it better. The pre-made OpenWRT firmware for my router is made for v1 of the device, not my v2, but I don't know if that actually is causing this impact or not.

I have a Luxul Epic 3 router (XWR-3150v2) behind my AT&T modem/router (Arris BGW210-700) in IP Passthrough mode. For some reason, native IPv6 refuses to work on the Luxul (I assume due to some kind of issue with the Luxul's DHCPv6 client; native IPv6 works on the Arris fine). So I tried installing OpenWRT, and IPv6 worked perfectly fine with the Arris in passthrough. HOWEVER, the range/speed of the wifi becomes extremely reduced.

Before switching to OpenWRT, I can easily get 50 Mbps download on the 2.4 GHz network, but after I am lucky to get more than 5 Mbps (and very often would get speeds in the kilobits per second). On the 5GHz network I can easily get 70+ Mbps (though I've seen up to 200 on good days) with 200 to 500 ms bufferbloat, but on OpenWRT I have seen a max of maybe 20 Mbps with bufferbloat over 3000ms (like the 2.4GHz, the results were often worse at the single-digit Mbps). Some detailed test results are at the end of this post.

When wired directly into the Luxul, I can see my paid-for speeds of around 700+ Mbps, so the issue plagues only the wifi. With a laptop right next to the router, I can also see the wifi speeds I'd be expecting. I know my computer's location isn't great for wifi range, but that's part of the reason I bought the Luxul and I haven't had troubles with the stock firmware.

Tried those settings exactly (well, except for the path since that's device specific), and no improvements in speed or reading from the phone wifi analyzer (5G connection is also just as unstable). The desktop "netsh wlan show all" does show better reading percentages (2.4G at 60% and 5G at 66%), but that didn't translate into better performance. The percentage also dropped severely at times (to 33% for the 2.4G and 50% for 5G). Connecting to 5G has issues talking to router: pinging doesn't work consistently (times out and has response times in the 2000+ ms), no WAN connection, but the GUI web page works (though it is quite slow).

I want to focus on how my XWR-3150 is v2 because of this thread of comments: -1-dan...@luxul.com/

Where there are very specifically claims made that "luxul has no plans to create a 'v2' of this device", which is only from April last year. =openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/bcm53xx/image/Makefile; from the source for OpenWRT also uses the string "bcm47094-luxul-xwr-3150-v1". I don't know what chipsets my version actually uses and if there were any notable changes that the OpenWRT installation for XWR-3150v1 doesn't account for. I bought my router in June or July of last year. I attempted to ask Luxul about what changes were made between revisions, but never got word back. I could dismantle the device and check myself, but I didn't want to remove the shielding plate that all the chips are under.

Could I get some help figuring out how to improve my range to a usable degree? I'd like to run an ethernet cable to my office eventually, but I don't have the luxury of doing that right now. I re-installed the stock firmware, but can move back to OpenWRT if I have some ideas to help.

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