87U excitement!!!!

[Allograft]

I just read over at hardwarezone that Asus is expecting to get a stable release out in early October, which even at early November that'd be great.

My Christmas list is:
-no longer have to reset daily to keep communication between devices, especially HP printer
-nice 5 GHz stability
-improved range, just a meter would be nice

-beamforming and MIMO and not necessary at this point because I just want basic functionality

 

[Haggster]

I just read over at hardwarezone that Asus is expecting to get a stable release out in early October, which even at early November that'd be great.

My Christmas list is:
-no longer have to reset daily to keep communication between devices, especially HP printer
-nice 5 GHz stability
-improved range, just a meter would be nice

-beamforming and MIMO and not necessary at this point because I just want basic functionality

Do you think they'll enable MU-MIMO? That'd be great news for a lot of people that are using their phones and partly tablets at home since virtually all Qualcomm SD8xx devices support MU-MIMO. Too bad my Google Nexus 9 tablet with its Nvidia SoC doesn't.

Last week somebody at home was streaming a movie via our set top disk which is connected to the 87u via wi-fi. Every time I started playing a youtube movie on my phone, the stream on the telly suddenly started to stutter - and the issue wasn't our broadband connection, since that reliably provides 98mbps/s download. And the content wasn't in 4K resolution. (and QoS is enabled, with streaming as the highest priority). So I guess with MU-MIMO I wouldn't have had the problem.

Except for the fact that neither the set top disk supports MU-MIMO, nor the budget phone that was streaming youtube at the time.

 

[RMerlin]

Personally I just keep the slow clients on the 2.4 GHz band, and the fast clients on the 5 GHz band. There's little point in having a 1x1 phone connected to the 5 GHz band.

 

[Haggster]

Personally I just keep the slow clients on the 2.4 GHz band, and the fast clients on the 5 GHz band. There's little point in having a 1x1 phone connected to the 5 GHz band.

I agree, I was doing it like that for a long time, however the following issues caused me to change this for the time being:

I switched the 5GHz wi-fi to the DFS frequency spectrum and even in 2015 there are new devices coming out that don't support those (hi Google Nexus...). So basically, I bought a set top box/disk that was released in 2015 (at least here in Europe... in America it came out last year) which doesn't support DFS, so I had to move it over to 2,4GHz. At least this had the additional benefit that this device doesn't lose its connection anymore, which used to happen every couple of days while it was still on the 5GHz wifi.

I think from now on I'll boycott any 802.11ac capable device that is only restricted to the first four 5GHz channels (the non-DFS ones).

 

[RMerlin]

I think from now on I'll boycott any 802.11ac capable device that is only restricted to the first four 5GHz channels (the non-DFS ones).

Or make it known to their manufacturers that if they want to do business in Europe, they need DFS support.

 

[Allograft]

I just read over at hardwarezone that a new beta will be using the new QTN driver!!!!! I don't do betas, but that has to mean that another official release is in the wings. Hopefully something for me by the new year )))

 

[RMerlin]

I just read over at hardwarezone that a new beta will be using the new QTN driver!!!!! I don't do betas, but that has to mean that another official release is in the wings. Hopefully something for me by the new year )))

It's the third driver update over the last 4-5 months.

 

[Allograft]

It's the third driver update over the last 4-5 months.

And good reason for praising the efforts of Asus, to continue to work with QTN to try to make things happen rather than just moving to the next product and abandoning customers

 

[alarsen77]

I'm hoping this helps because I just had my 5G channel fail for the first time it was up 6 days and 12 hours. Had to reboot the router about 15 minutes ago and now all seems fine. What's strange is my dad bought a refurb 87u and he said his has been up for months and hasn't had to reboot it


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[icemankent]

I am running the latest 9177 firmware and still experience random disconnects on both bands. I hope some miracle happens in a future firmware that fixes this.

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[ankhazam]

I am running the latest 9177 firmware and still experience random disconnects on both bands. I hope some miracle happens in a future firmware that fixes this.

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1) get closer to your router
2) put it higher in the room
3) change channels to auto or manually select the least crowded channels for both bands