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RT-AC68U dirty flash over 386.4 Seems more stable than 386.4 on the RT-AC68U which is unheard of for an Alpha release!
I started typing something similar yesterday and then promptly forgot about it but here it is:
Alpha 1 seems to be better with my RT-AC68P and FlexQoS under high QoS load scenarios:
I have 120/18 speed and activities with lots of small packets can max out the processor on download when QoS is active - 100% on core 1 with very high sirq - large packets don't do that)

With 386.4 I noticed sluggishness aka latency increase in other activities when that happens.
With 386.5 Alpha 1 everything remains snappy even when Core 1 is 100% busy....
Maybe something sirq related got optimized with the new Asus portion since all the busy comes from sirq activities.
 
RT-AC68U dirty flash over 386.4 Seems more stable than 386.4 on the RT-AC68U which is unheard of for an Alpha release!
This is @RMerlin work that you are talking about — not unheard of at all! ;)
 
I started typing something similar yesterday and then promptly forgot about it but here it is:
Alpha 1 seems to be better with my RT-AC68P and FlexQoS under high QoS load scenarios:
I have 120/18 speed and activities with lots of small packets can max out the processor on download when QoS is active - 100% on core 1 with very high sirq - large packets don't do that)

With 386.4 I noticed sluggishness aka latency increase in other activities when that happens.
With 386.5 Alpha 1 everything remains snappy even when Core 1 is 100% busy....
Maybe something sirq related got optimized with the new Asus portion since all the busy comes from sirq activities.
Likely thanks to this...

EDIT: Oh & look what I noticed while I'm in here snooping...
Perhaps we'll see an alpha for the RT-AC86U sometime soon ;-) ???


BTW Thx RMerlin
 
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It would not change Adaptive QoS behavior.
LOL, well I've been wrong before... Thanks for the correction (as Nobody knows FlexQoS) much better than you.

EDIT: Hopefully my second point is still Valid, or that's two strikes for me
 
@RMerlin As always really appreciate your work.
I was hoping you may have some insight into why the rt-ax86 LAN to LAN transfers get affected by enabling QOS besides Adaptive(transfer rates drops from around 100MBs to around 60MBs).
I don't believe its your build because it happens with the stock FW as well, but whats puzzling is if I swap in my spare RT-AC86U, this speed hit does not occur enabling regular QOS.
 
Don’t tempt me to install an alpha!!
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See a lot of: Since i updated to alpha 1 on AX88u
These only come from clients i have set on DNS-Filter
Code:
Feb 16 21:21:30 RT-AX88U-6C58 kernel: ** ERROR: [send_redir_page:625] # redir_url=https://192.168.1.1:8443/blocking.asp?cat_id=23&mac=*******C8428&domain=yield-op-idsync.live.streamtheworld.com
Feb 16 21:21:50 RT-AX88U-6C58 kernel: ** ERROR: [send_redir_page:625] # redir_url=https://192.168.1.1:8443/blocking.asp?cat_id=23&mac=*******B5023&domain=acds.prod.vidible.tv
Sometimes restarting DNS-Filters seems to help for awhile
&
Code:
Feb 16 21:06:41 RT-AX88U-6C58 kernel: httpds (1261): drop_caches: 1
Feb 16 21:12:13 RT-AX88U-6C58 kernel: [tdts_shell_ioctl_stat:256] Recv ioctl req with op 2
 
Feb 16 21:06:41 RT-AX88U-6C58 kernel: httpds (1261): drop_caches: 1
When you login to the firmware this entry happens.
Feb 16 21:12:13 RT-AX88U-6C58 kernel: [tdts_shell_ioctl_stat:256] Recv ioctl req with op 2
I have the same error and have no clue what it is.
 
bug
in Main_WStatus_Content.asp RT-AX88U cannot see WIFI clients connect
I have the same router and don't have that issue.
 
Dirty flash to 386.5_alpha1 to my main router (RT-AX86U) and AiMesh node (RT-AX88U). Everything seems to be working smoothly, and my AiMesh connection quality as reported on the AiMesh page has gone from Fair to Great. Both were on 386.4 previously and I was getting IoT devices dropping from time to time, I'll keep an eye on things with the updated GPL. I'm ~90 minutes in with no issues yet, knock on wood.

On a side note, thanks for all of the encouragement in this thread to install an alpha version, something I would never do normally but as others have said Merlin is amazing!
 
After all the warm recommendations here to upgrade to Alpha version which I have promised to myself in order to avoid bugs, I just upgraded to an Alpha version for the first time after I stopped it because of Asus made me a QA tester about 1 year ago.
AX88u - 2 PCs (Router and a Node)
Never thought a dirty upgrade would be so fast and further more- seamless.
I came with fear because of past experience.

Running now for 20m and 21 clients connected like a charm (did 1 reboot right after the upgrade, would do another one now)
Hope that the new WIFI drivers would assist few IOT devices I got disconnecting and re-connecting.
My huge thanks to @RMerlin for his terrific work, definitely worth the donation I did not so much while ago.
 

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