[philjohn]

Qualcomm SFE has been replaced in OpenWRT with the more generic "flow offload", on an R7800 you can get gigabit speeds lan to wan.

Wireless is still lagging as the IPQ8064 has two NSS packet processing cores which, amongst other things, also accelerate crypto, including WPA.

I've got an R7800 running router duties on OpenWRT and then a Netgear Orbi RBK50 set running in AP mode which works well for my needs.

There IS a community effort to port the NSS acceleration (which accelerates qdisc and therefore traffic shaping with SQM) from the QSDK sources, but it's slow going.