Wi-fi 6 with OpenWrt - the Belkin RT 3200

Love your videos. Would also love a source of your beamforming information. I'll go google it now, but what I learned in university some years ago was beamforming was done by phase differences in each antenna to form constructive/destructive interference patterns.

Hello Marc! A month ago I acquired the Rt3200, it worked wonderfully, then from one day to the next it stopped emitting a Wi-Fi signal. I have restored it to factory settings, I have reconfigured it many times and nothing gives a signal. In the configuration box everything seems to be fine. In fact, it was sent to technical service and returned unresolved. According to your experience and expertise, what could it be? A big greeting from Venezuela.

Hello Marc thanks for the video! if I install OpenWrt do I will be able to use the Easymesh standard ??? Thanks

Excellent video. Good test and information.

Hello, my phone is capable of using Wifi6, do you think it consume more power than the wifi5?

Hi Marc. Great, informative channel! Do you have some thoughts about other wifi 6 openwrt routers like Cudy X6 / Totolink X5000R or Xiaomi AX3600? I search something else, because I'm a bit disappointed that model from video supports ax only on 5ghz channel.

Hello! What is the latest on WiFI BW off the forums please?

Hi Marc. Great video. For beamforming on the belkin rt3200 openwrt did you have to apply the setting to all radios or only the 5ghz one? Did you use Basic Service Set Coloring? Thanks

KuWfi Tenbay WIFI-6 AX T-MB5EU-V01 @ 50-60€ on Amazon. Original firmware is an ancient OpenWRT fork from god knows when and it may look cheap, but it's rock-solid if you can live with 16MB flash. The only annoying thing (for those not self-compiling) is that the github maintainer of OpenWRT's mt76 driver won't pull ptpt52's changes, which fix some minor bugs (like offering 160MHz in error).

Hi everyone! Thanks for the videos!

I'm considering to buy this router but first I'd like to get some good feedback about wired connections (1Gbps) and not enablid software and hardware offloading.
Regards.

Hi @OneMarcFifty

First of all : A HUGE THX for all your videos that have brought me up to speed on many points!

I am looking for a suitable replacement of my current Netgear R8000, which has a lot of issues with VLAN + Wireless.
The Belkin RT 3200 looks great.

Would you be able to me if I can use both "Hardware Flow Offloading" and VLANs tagging? Are they compatible?

Thanks a lot

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I am glad to have stumbled over your channel. Da macht das alles viel mehr Spass mit Dir!

How do I set my up

This router is an absolute piece of crap.

Great video. I'm trying to install OpenWRT with UBI via dangowrt...Not going per instructions... :(

Great video! I'm thinking on pulling the trigger on one of these, would you recommend software & hardware offloading or SQM on these units? I'm on a 200/50 fiber connection.

good review finally someone who knows how to test a wifi AP, but you definitely need wifi 6 clients... all this review told me is that the belkin will give about 700mbps on 5Ghz wifi, which is something most routers can already do...

Thanks for your video. It is very important for the me to kickstart of my OpenWRT life.

It seems that this router get recommended a lot in the OpenWRT forum.
Do you think this is the best wireless router for OpenWRT in 2022? What are the weakness(es) of this model?

Thx)

Hello, congratulations for your videos. My question is if this device, after installing OpenWRT, is powerful enough to work as Router+Firewall (with Adguard)+Media Server (With jellyfin via Docker)+NAS (with a SATA Enclosure USB 3.0 Raid) or am I asking much?. Thank you very much in advance.

This video is simply great. Grasping all necessary details, saving a lot of time for those who want to get nice WiFi setup. Thank you.

Marc... always interesting stuff... ;-)

Hello Marc. With this video, I've been able to install Openwrt on my Belkin rt3200. Thanks so much. Can you provide a guide on
wrtbwmon, a data usage service on openwrt. There is a modified one, wrtbwmon-remixed . This will be fantastic to have on openwrt. Special requests. Do more videos on how to install packages on Openwrt. Thank you

Belkin has Easymesh. Do you think it is good than this?

I have a peculiar question.
Would it be possible to use 2 ports as WAN ports, since I have 1.5gb from my ISP, since the Belkin only have gigabit ports and not multi gigabit ports. So I would have my full internet speed with the WiFi 6?

Is this the same as a Belkin AX3200? I looked up Belkin RT3200 on Belkin support and nothing was found

Marc do you know much about the RT1800? Is it the same device but with a slower radio? Can you also put OpenWRT on it ?

I'd rather upgrade my Turris Omnia / PC Engines APU* APs with a new miniPCIe card (such as the Compex WLE3000H* series with 4x4 MU-MIMO and up to 4K-QAM...)

Hello. Kinda unrelated but I don't know who or where to ask this question. I got and old Linksys EA6350 v2 router but on the OpenWRT web page there's versions for v1, v3, v4... so if I install the v3 version on my v2 would it be a problem? The main difference, that I was able to find, is that the v2 has 128MB Flash and RAM while the v3 has 128MB Flash and 256MB RAM. Would it be a problem?

Hi thank for the video i have a question is there anyway to install openvpn on snapshot?

Hello Marc,
I see that you have enabled hardware flow offloading in your video. Tried it myself on 22.03.0-rc4, rc5 - no improvements on CPU side. By searching the forums came to conclusion that so called WED is not compatible with firewall4 and therefore is not enabled. In this video you have used snapshot version from January, so how did it went in long term ? I do assume that firewall v3 was used for this video recording to be compatible with WED?

Hi Marc, thanks a lot for your videos! I just bought Belkin RT3200 (I hope the affiliate link visit registered correctly at Amazon) and flashed it with OpenWRT straight away. I've noticed that in the video you have 2 wireless devices MT7622 and MT7915E, but for me LuCI shows only one - MT7622. Is it just a matter of running "opkg install kmod-mt7915e" to make both network adapters work? Did you have to do something else to configure radio1?

These are on sale in the UK at £49. I'm tempted. But the reviews are terrible. And multigigabit but only 1gig ethernet :( also people complain about the no WiFi 6 on 2.4GHz.

Hello Marc - I'm glad to find your Tech Channel. Reading the description of the RT3200, I see that the stock firmware only supports storage devices on the USB port. If you're still using the RT3200 with OpenWrt, can you say whether it supports using a USB connected 4G/5G LTE cellular modem to provide the WAN Internet uplink? Thanks!

Hi Marc. Have you ever came across any AP with smart antenna and test the beamforming and mu-mimo vs devices with normal antenna?

Can I use my Existing Wi-Fi

Is that rebranded Linksys?

How does the router perform when SQM is enabled? I have a Gigabit download connection and would like to use all if not most of the available bandwidth with SQM enabled. Knowing that SQM can be CPU intensive, I want to know whether the Belkin product is up to the job. Thank you.

ist er gut oder nicht ? keine ahnung mit den zeug

hi, do you manage to flash openvpn as right now kernel is not compatible

Cant you install batman on this router and make a mesh with it?

I am able to get up to 880 mbps over wifi with 160 MHz channel width between my laptop and server with this router. The laptop has an Intel AX201 wifi card. This is with iperf and not just the reported link speed.

Do you know if it will support Mesh with Wifi 6? I currently have Deco X20 and it is compatible (Wifi 6 and Mesh), only openwrt functions are needed.

Great content, thanks lots mate.

Hi happy easter! I just replaces mit Fritz Devices with Openwrt TR3200. Did you know how I can create a full repeater mode to carry 2,4 and 5Ghz WIFI without a cable connection.
When I try to do this and use the LAN Network for both 2,4 and 5Ghz I go into a loop. But I don't have a idea to prevent this. Goal for me is to have a repeater on this locations where I don't have no wire connection and can connect to the repeater to manage it without a cable.

How do you find the MT7622 CPU against your previous recommendation, the MT7621 (e.g.DIR-2600)?

@OneMarcFifty: Went and bought this router to test a few things with OpenWrt, but before flashing the router: how did you install the firmware? Are you able to go back to stock firmware just in case? Thanks for the great content :D