jim769
Very Senior Member
As for the RT-AC3100, not having one, I cannot test it and therefore cannot tell if that one has working binary blobs or not.
Send me the 382 code for the 3100 i will see if it works...
As for the RT-AC3100, not having one, I cannot test it and therefore cannot tell if that one has working binary blobs or not.
Send me the 382 code for the 3100 i will see if it works...
I`ll have to compile it first. Are you comfortable in using firmware recovery if it gets stuck at boot time? (unless you got serial attached, and can kill the acsd process when it gets stuck).
You'll have to forget about it. The RT-AC3100 GPl is missing part of its wireless driver. Sigh.
Getting so tired of dealing with this... Incomplete 3100 GPL. Corrupted AC88U GPL, replaced by one that contains the wrong files.
the temporaly solution is set the chanel in 40mhz. other solutions not works :-(@ScottW @webgrease @Kruegs @jim769 @DAVIZINHO Thank you so much for your effort. As per your suggestion, I changed to 80MHz from 20/40/80MHz. I also disabled universal beamforming. My 5GHz lasted for over 1 week until today, it stopped broadcasting. That's far better than before. As I mentioned before, my 5GHz never lasted more than a day! So my issue was not completely resolved, but much better than before. As I mentioned before, 80MHz is a must have function for me as I have gig internet in my home. 40MHz does cannot carry the throughput as 80Hz channel. I hope all of us can come up with a complete solution. I upgraded my firmware to 380.68_4 last week, I will keep 80MHz and monitor this issue. For now, I will call my issue has been partially resolved.
Wait, I never suggested setting 80MHz. I suggested setting 40MHz, as that is the only setting that has provided me stable 5GHz operation.@ScottW @webgrease @Kruegs @jim769 @DAVIZINHO Thank you so much for your effort. As per your suggestion, I changed to 80MHz from 20/40/80MHz. I also disabled universal beamforming. My 5GHz lasted for over 1 week until today, it stopped broadcasting.
If restarting the client wifi fixed it, then that is a completely different problem than discussed above.Happened to my laptop today. Wouldn't connect to 5ghz upon wake from sleep. I had to put laptop into airplane mode then back off for it to be recognized
If restarting the client wifi fixed it, then that is a completely different problem than discussed above.
The problem discussed here is a complete shutdown of the router's 5GHz radio -- all clients are dropped, and no client can see any 5GHz transmission from the router. The router then has to be rebooted (or 5GHz toggled off and back on) to get it working again. Once the problem occurs, nothing done at any client fixes it.
Still there is a chance they are related.
Happened to my laptop today. Wouldn't connect to 5ghz upon wake from sleep. I had to put laptop into airplane mode then back off for it to be recognized
This is a problem with your laptop, not the router. It's not uncommon with some buggy wireless drivers to have issues when coming out of sleep mode. Upgrade your driver.
anyone tries the 382.1_beta1 ??
I'm going to add a "me too" to this thread. Last week, I installed a 2nd RT-Ac3100 Refurbished unit (first one received was missing a part so sent it back). It worked great initially, but started having 5G problems a few hours later. Watching it with a wifi analyzer, I can actually see the 5 Gz channel either 1) drop in/out continuously (10 seconds on, 30 seconds off) or 2) be completely absent (5G light on the AC3100 is on, but no 5G signal can been seen). Different stock and merlin firmwares, and hard-setting the channel & width and other mention parameters hasn't helped much. A simple google search on "asus ac3100 5g" has numerous posts with the same/similar issues going back to January 2016. I'm beginning to think I have a bad unit, or Asus has faulty 5G wireless drivers (perhaps an over aggressive algorithm protecting the DFS 5G radar channels), or both. I purchased a Netgear R8000 last night (still in the shrink-wrap), but am leaning towards returning that and getting a new Ac3100 as I like the Asus-Merlin firmware/features/interface so much. Decisions decisions....
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