Menu
What's new
By:
Filters Better Search

Search results

  • SNBForums Code of Conduct

    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

    Please be tolerant and patient of others, especially newcomers. We are all here to share and learn!

    The rules are simple: Be patient, be nice, be helpful or be gone!

  1. G

    redirect HTTP webui to HTTPS

    ^^^^ Yeap. As an enhanced security measure (and to pass port scan audits) we disabled all traffic on port 80 and only allow 443 on a server level - that way it's not even listening. I recall doing this years ago in standard linux setups running apache... but that's long since evaporated. I...
  2. G

    CPU 100% on ac86u

    ^^ That's a very good point and posting! TY! USB2.0 = 500mA / 2.5W USB3.0 = 900mA / 4.5W The power rating never crossed my mind. I've been lucky. I always use the smallest capacity 40-250GB SSD. Those tend to consume the fewest watts with most today remaining well under 2W but can ramp...
  3. G

    CPU 100% on ac86u

    ^^^ Yeah drawing near max from a USB2 port 24/7... never really good to run something near 100% for 24/7 even though I know it's got some buffer. Thanks for posting the USB current limits. This is the page where we were posting iotest results in 2018 from various drives. The only drive I...
  4. G

    CPU 100% on ac86u

    ^^^ An SSD will consume less power than a spinning HDD motor. I never considered the USB 3.x spec for power delivery so maybe good point. You don't need a large capacity SSD at all. I've got a 6+ year old 80GB now-ancient Intel that's purring away for 2+ years as the AMTM+Entware+Swapper...
  5. G

    CPU 100% on ac86u

    ^^^ I should be definition if the ASUS engineers did their jobs. But on the AC86U we've seen "reboot = power off" issues which I believe are caused by a slightly under powered PSU wall wart. I and others have posted about that too and fixed our units by buying a beefier PSU. ;) But back to...
  6. G

    CPU 100% on ac86u

    If you have been using a USB stick, this could be the root of your issues. Unplug it and turn off those stats and see how the unit responds. There are several threads where we have suggested using a USB SSD drive in a good, reliable USB case vs the USB sticks. This surfaces quite often with...
  7. G

    System Time

    Very too weird. I'm glad you piped up b/c this was wrong now on all my routers upgraded to 384.19. Some have AMTM + ntpMerlin and some are vanilla Merlin 384.19 with no AMTM. It appears the Administration > System page somehow got the wrong "fall-back" values for ending DST for my locale...
  8. G

    Worthy VPN performance upgrade from RT-AC86U?

    One option I'll toss in also is using one of the "mini/micro" machines as a pfSense unit. There are many blog postings out there for how to do that but there can be gotchas. Like not enough ports or even the slots, or physical connectors to add them. Then there are the gotchas of using genuine...
  9. G

    Second Thoughts - RT-AC88U to replace RT-AC86U

    I'd made my older AC88U an indoor WAP for 4+ years now. I waterfall the primary router every ~ 3-4 years when there's a good reason to do so like more pCPUs or faster pCPUs to handle shuffling bits faster. It's made a fine WAP. Nothing I have does AX but a few models have 4 pCPUS but the...
  10. G

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19 is now available

    ^^^ Asus appears to have stopped printing a HW Version on the AC86U sometime with the manufacturing switch from China to Vietnam in 2020. Look closely, I bet yours says "Made in Vietnam"...
  11. G

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19 is now available

    Per my earlier posts, the issues with the /JFFS + AC86U + many AMTM scripts (J* scripts) which default to using the /JFFS, have to do with the heavier I/O workload actually hitting the /JFFS. The J* scripts write A LOT to the /JFFS file system unless you set them to use the /USB filesystem...
  12. G

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19 is now available

    ^^^^ WRT 384.19, very interesting comments via ASUS support on backleveling the FW due to others also reporting issues. TY for posting that. IDK where similar tooling is located or even IF some of these items are available in ASUS's stock FW.. Many things in RMerlin's releases are unique...
  13. G

    Asus RT-AC86U bricked

    Verify your PC is connected to LAN Port # 1 on the router when you are trying to use the ASUS Recovery Tooling... I read that somewhere and yeah sometimes it takes a while to connect and recovery.. sometimes it takes a few tries..
  14. G

    Most stable build currently for RT-AC86U?

    The people who really know why ASUS designated 2 different hard factory reset procedures are the ASUS engineers who designed those boards and the firmware / microcode booting/running them. I'm going to land in the camp that ASUS would not have posted multiple different procedures for specific...
  15. G

    ntpMerlin ntpMerlin - NTP Daemon for AsusWRT Merlin

    I'm waiting for someone to figure out and package up how to hang the GPS module off a USB port on an ASUS router.. ;)
  16. G

    ntpMerlin ntpMerlin - NTP Daemon for AsusWRT Merlin

    ^^^ yes, that's why in my NTP.CONF file I tell ntp to only use ipv4... so the same should apply to chrony as I do not run IPV6 on my home networks.
  17. G

    Most stable build currently for RT-AC86U?

    ^^^^ BLUF: ASUS router owners need to know that ASUS's hard factory reset procedure differs by model. ++ Perform the CORRECT HARD FACTORY RESET for your router per ASUS's web pages -> https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1039074 You can follow the 384.19 saga in the other thread. And yes...
  18. G

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19 is now available

    ^^^ Yes... the Hard Reset for the AC86 IS different per the links. I think there is something to that b/c ASUS would not have broken out those few routers as different for no good reason. Those of us with AC86U should follow the ASUS Hard Reset... then go after the "nuclear reset". I used...
  19. G

    uiDivStats uiDivStats - WebUI for Diversion statistics

    Hi Jack. I'd like to suggest in some future release please consider asking if we want to create a new DB or use the older one and show the size. When uiDivStats ran for me it pegged both pCPUS for very long time periods and displayed errors when I removed and reinstalled so that route did not...
  20. G

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19 is now available

    ^^^^ TY for the posting your results!! I am starting to believe that once we hit the types of issues being reported here on AC86U + 384.19, that ASUS's WPS "hard-reset" (as posted in the ASUS link you provided) may be required multiple times to stabilize the AC86U and return it to proper...
Top