5ghz degradation on 68R/U?

[Find the Door]

Paid far too much for this router to be having wireless performance that drops into kbps... I'm on Asus' latest firmware and am really close to just exchanging it for a Nighthawk (which I understand is more powerful anyways). I like Asus' product support so I'd rather not part ways, but constantly resetting the 5ghz band is tiresome.


I didn't the proper factory reset after updating etc.

What gives?

 

[Sig]

How long have you had the AC68R ? You sure you are running the latest firmware from the website the newest is 3.0.0.4.374_583 ? The Nighthawk has been having the same signal degradation also on both the 5 and 2.4 Bands so don't expect the Nighthawk to be flawless either .

 

[Find the Door]

Yes, I'm running 583.

I've had it for 2 months.


Is it true that from a chipset perspective that the nighthawk is indeed more powerful?


What in the heck is causing this issue with both models? I had the same thing happen with the 66R

 

[Sig]

Yes the Nighthawk is 1ghz and the Asus is 800mhz check out the router ranker for the comparison . How often is the 5ghz band dropping ?

 

[Find the Door]

Happens every week.

 

[KGB7]

Same issues here as well on two AC68 routers. I think Asus just fudged up big time and made huge batch of bad routers.

I see same issues with AC66 routers.

They work fine for few weeks, then wifi goes down the toilet.

Send it back to Asus and hope you get a better one.

 

[Find the Door]

Same issues here as well on two AC68 routers. I think Asus just fudged up big time and made huge batch of bad routers.

I see same issues with AC66 routers.

They work fine for few weeks, then wifi goes down the toilet.

Send it back to Asus and hope you get a better one.

Well at this point I think I'll just return it - I have Geek Squad protection on it and am leaning towards swapping it for the nighthawk.

 

[KGB7]

Well at this point I think I'll just return it - I have Geek Squad protection on it and am leaning towards swapping it for the nighthawk.

Ive been running Kong DD-wrt firmware and still have wifi degradation. I have to power cycle them every 12 hours. So now i know i have two bad routers.

I should have kept the R7000 when i first bought it.

 

[Find the Door]

Ive been running Kong DD-wrt firmware and still have wifi degradation. I have to power cycle them every 12 hours. So now i know i have two bad routers.

I should have kept the R7000 when i first bought it.

How was the R7000?

 

[KGB7]

How was the R7000?

I had it for two days, but it was great. The initial firmware had few issues, but the work around were simple and are documented on Netgear forum.

I havent kept up with firmware updates after returning R7000, so i dont know if they are having any issues at this time. This was over a month ago.

You should head over their forums and read though the threads.


Just so you know, the R7000 is a monster in size compared to AC68 router. But thats do to better air ventilation design from visual inspection.

Kong also has firmware for R7000 if you want DD-WRT firmware. Dont forget to read Change Log on the top of the page.

http://desipro.de/ddwrt/K3-AC-Arm/

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=177443

 

[TeMpL]

I have no problem with 5g.. no reboots needed. Can be client related incompatibility!

INTEL 6300 has some known issue on 5g with drivers greater than 16.4...

 

[drabisan]

I'm using an Intel 6300 on Ubuntu.
I also have an Cisco Access Point 3500i and I used 5GHz on it before getting AC68U with no issues.

You may be right, but I think this time it is a firmware issue on this router.