Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS Unboxing - Overview - OpenWRT Quick Test

In this video, let's take a look at the R1 Plus LTS from Orange Pi. This is an SBC powered by the Rockchip RK3328 with 4 cores and clock up to 1.5GHz. It has 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports: one intergrated Gigabit Ethernet by MotorComm YT8511C and a USB converted Gigabit Ethernet by the Realtek RTL8153B. With 1GB of DDR3 RAM, the SBC is suitable to use as a soft-router with OpenWRT or headless Linux server. In this video, we will focus the OpenWRT installation and throughput testing.
During the test, I can see that the R1 Plus LTS throughput is not stable when software offloading is enabled. I hope Orange Pi will spend more effort to fix this, or push the device into openwrt.org so that we can have the official support.

Video timeframe:
00:00 - Intro & Unboxing the Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS
02:17 - R1 Plus LTS Overview & Specification
03:59 - Install the R1 Plus LTS Aluminium Casing
05:49 - Connect cables & Power on the R1 Plus LTS
07:10 - Download & Install OpenWRT into the microSD card
09:02 - Boot up the R1 Plus LTS with OpenWRT
10:03 - Access LuCI & Initial Configuration
13:48 - OpenSpeedTest - WAN to LAN Throughput - No Offloading
16:07 - iperf3 - WAN to LAN Throughput - No Offloading
16:56 - iperf3 Reverse - WAN to LAN Throughput - No Offloading
17:25 - OpenSpeedTest - WAN to LAN Throughput - SW Offloading
18:51 - iperf3 - WAN to LAN Throughput - SW Offloading
19:46 iperf3 Reverse - WAN to LAN Throughput - SW Offloading

Please note that the Orange Pi R1 Plus and the Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS is different. The integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller of the R1 Plus is Realtek RTL8211E and in the R1 Plus LTS, it is the MotorComm YT8511C. Right now, only the R1 Plus is supported by openwrt.org. For the R1 Plus LTS, we need to use build from Orange Pi.

Resources:
R1 Plus LTS OpenWrt firmware with English and minimal packages - https://vantc.net/orange-pi-r1-plus-l...
Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS homepage - http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare...
Download Firmware - http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare...

Thank you for watching and see you in the next video!