Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Finanlly, the Raspberry Pi 5 received official OpenWrt support. In this video, I will run a simple WAN to LAN throughput test with OpenSpeedTest and iperf3.

Since the Raspberry Pi 5 only has 1 network port, I used a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter as the WAN interface.

For this test, I used 2 USB to Ethernet adapter:
- D-Link DUB-1213 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (ASIX AX88179)
- No-Brand USB 3.0 to 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (Realtek RTL8156B)

Check out the video for more information.

You can find the products in the below URL (affilate)
Raspberry Pi 5 - my.cytron.io/p-raspberry-pi-5?tracking=vantech
Build the firmware: firmware-selector.openwrt.org
Driver packages:
openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/kmod-usb-net-asix-ax88179
openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/kmod-usb-net-rtl8152

Video timeframe:

00:00 - Intro
00:29 - USB 3.0 to Ethernet Adapters for the Raspberry Pi 5
01:21 - Build OpenWrt firmware for Pi 5 with LuCI & drivers
02:37 - Enable Software Offloading & Packet Steering
03:08 - Throughput Test - D-Link DUB-1312
03:34 - Throughput Test - No-Brand 2.5GbE Adapter

Thanks for watching and see you in the next video!