Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:33441 "EHLO mail-wm0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752190AbcCJRaX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:30:23 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id l68so38182264wml.0 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:30:22 -0800 (PST) From: Xose Vazquez Perez Subject: Re: New firmware for RT2870 To: linux-wireless , Larry Finger Message-ID: <56E1AF2B.7030206@gmail.com> (sfid-20160310_183026_750279_F76374C6) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:30:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Larry Finger wrote: > I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my no-name > adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. I have tested 0.36 on a 148f:3070 (high quality) device for 4 hours, and it has worked *flawlessly* . (Fedora 23 + updates-testing.repo - kernel-4.4.4-301 - wpa_supplicant-2.4-7 AP: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 running OpenWrt-snapshots-2016-Mar-09 [1]) Last year I have been in touch with Mediatek crew, and they said(12/09/2015): "According to the engineers comment, the firmware didn't change much these years, just some bbp register update and led stuff." [1] Friends don't let friends run stock router firmware.