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  1. aex.perez

    Ax88u Slow WAN speed

    A little under the weather 😵‍💫🤢🤮 But I do use 802.3ad on the AX88u and the WD NAS and have been for years with no issues, even did jumbo frames for awhile. I’ve never have had any issues with ports 5-8. Also use the switches in the AX86s (nodes) never an issue with any of it. Except for...
  2. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Working fine, just had to factory reset and format the usb, then reinstall everything. Like if installing brand new….
  3. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    🤣 I have what I have as it evolved overtime and expanded it the simplest way possible to get my eldest into this, keeping him out of trouble. Good investment in money, time and trouble as he was managing it. Kept him out of trouble now he’s working with the County/IT security. My youngest...
  4. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Spent better part of the day putting humpty dumpty back together again. 386.8 for the AX88u and 386.7-2 for the AX86u's. So far so good. Still have to get the nodes to send their logs to the router (scribe) and recreate a few filters. Have been pushing the router hard for the last few hours...
  5. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    I've tried all variations of simple, even down to ASUSWRT with just OpenVPN, no Trendmicro anything for years. IPv6 off. Same deal, same crash, related to flowcache and power recycle is the only way to recover. When the router comes back up, most everything is fine. Begining to think is a...
  6. aex.perez

    Ax88u Slow WAN speed

    Just curious as I too had a similar slowdown with my AX88. Like you I started playing around with addons, though never need QoS with 1Gb fiber. Like you got incremental improvement by turning off certain scripts but never what my normal is ~930Mbps in both directions. When it noticed my...
  7. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Can’t say I disagree as I too have been in IT for a long time. It’s always a balance but at least in my case this is something that is deep within the core code delivered by ASUS that Merlín enhances. I’ve playing around with limited addons even the most basic ones not needing Entware. Even...
  8. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Back to 386 I go, same crash under ASUSWRT 388 but with a little more detail... See attached... Firgured it would happen, just not this soon 😖 Same oddball before and after power cycle
  9. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    This specific issue, 388. The same exact setup was great under 386.8 / 386.7.2. Never had anything like what you see in the log on the first post in any release even going back to when I had the 5300’s. IPV6, turning that off got some CPU and memory stability, even though the dnsmasq restart...
  10. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Actually my WiFi/roaming has been the one constant in terms of reliabilty. The big change was moving from Auto to a fixed channel, that really helped stabilize it in the early 388 days and I've kept it that way. I'm blessed to live in an area where I have little to no neighborly interference...
  11. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Really can’t see a difference from a performance aspect. It’s to early on the stability piece. Even with scripts I was using under 386/388 it didn’t pound the CPU enough to impact performance. But while under 386 my setup was stable, under 388 I had challenges I could not resolve. That said...
  12. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Time constraints forcing my hand a bit, the logistics of getting the OpenVpn profiles out and people to understand how to use them another. Needed to get this done quick with as little disruption as possible. IPv6 is something I use to test as well, works well on the Google Nest devices (oddly...
  13. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Well, back to stock. Was much less painful than I imagined. 22525 on the router (AX88u) and 23285 on the nodes (AX86u), pretty painless. Obviously no add ons/scripts. LEDs at the router always on. Mesh nodes (bedrooms) always off. Turned IPV6 back on, simple one GUI panel and came right...
  14. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    That's next, but a major undertaking. I have tried a basic setup with Merlin without a lot of addons, expect for OpenVPN and Speedtest to see if/when it happens. It still did. I need to find a window of time to get everything on stock ASUS to do this again. The challenge is finding a good...
  15. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    I use spdMerlin to avoid that, as I gives me a data base with the results making it easier to track and a nice graph to visually see it but the automated tests... And whether I use the built in or external binary the results are the same, I don't use QoS but I have them set to be excluded from...
  16. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Great question, initially nothing. But after a few hours (a day) it will begin to degrade. On Wifi devices you'll begin to get assymetrical results like what's happening on the router. The download results on thoose devices will sho a 200-350Mbs delta between download and upload, where on the...
  17. aex.perez

    Skynet / dnsmasq / Flowcache / Merlin 388 releases

    Before anyone says anything I don't care what the Speedtest speed results are, I use them to monitor consistency, quality At this point my Speedtests are within what I consider my normal: between 900 to 930 Mbps every 30m - both up and down Been running for weeks all good and even te occasional...
  18. aex.perez

    Asus RT-AC88U AC3100 Bricked/Failed Firmware update

    Kinda read through this a little quick, saw you tried recovery mode. I had to recover one of my old AC5300's and everytime it started to load the firmware it would fail at some what I first thought was a random %. Router connected to PC, good cable, 1Gbe should've worked fine. Tried other...
  19. aex.perez

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 388.2 is now available for select models

    I've had all sorts of dnsmasq restarts that will sometimes take other things with it. The memory leak was wreaking havoc with other functionality. Having several addons use the USB vs JFFS probably isn't helping. It isn't just USB SMB, in one case I had Skynet restart, which took out USB and...
  20. aex.perez

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 388.2 is now available for select models

    My issues have been all over the map with reboots and all sorts of wierdness since moving to the 388 family. Even though many told me it wasn't needed I often cleared the caches (to avoid a reboot) when on the 386 releases, and rarely had stability issues as a result. Recently I started the...
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