Wysie
Occasional Visitor
Hi all,
I've seen a couple of reboot issues being mentioned with regards to AC66U, and so far here are my findings.
I'm using StarHub (Singapore) Fibre 200Mbps.
1. With any firmware (I've tried just about all of them), the connection is stable with HW acceleration turned off.
2. HW acceleration works great on 3.0.0.4.270.26 and below.
3. After firmware 3.0.0.4.270.26, HW acceleration causes the router to reboot intermittently. Sometimes it reboots within 5 minutes, but I've seen it go for 2 hours before rebooting as well.
Apparently, this issue only started happening after StarHub did a maintenance update, but users are able to confirm that it does not happen with AC68 or other routers (seems to be specific to AC66 HW acceleration module which RMerlin has said is close sourced )
I have not tested with official Asus firmwares but from what I've read in http://community.starhub.com/t5/Max...tarhub-maxinfinity/td-p/53981/highlight/false it seems to be giving the same results as what I just tested.
As of now I'm using .374, reason being it has all the functions I need (OpenVPN, iptables, etc.), although I'm losing the HW acceleration in the process .
Update #1: I'm successfully running .270.26 using wan-start instead of openvpn-event for selective routing ! Had to change "Redirect Internet Traffic" under the VPN settings to no and all is working great now (http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showpost.php?p=95172&postcount=31). With that said, it'd still be nice to be able to run on the latest firmware with HW acceleration set to on...
I've seen a couple of reboot issues being mentioned with regards to AC66U, and so far here are my findings.
I'm using StarHub (Singapore) Fibre 200Mbps.
1. With any firmware (I've tried just about all of them), the connection is stable with HW acceleration turned off.
2. HW acceleration works great on 3.0.0.4.270.26 and below.
3. After firmware 3.0.0.4.270.26, HW acceleration causes the router to reboot intermittently. Sometimes it reboots within 5 minutes, but I've seen it go for 2 hours before rebooting as well.
Apparently, this issue only started happening after StarHub did a maintenance update, but users are able to confirm that it does not happen with AC68 or other routers (seems to be specific to AC66 HW acceleration module which RMerlin has said is close sourced )
I have not tested with official Asus firmwares but from what I've read in http://community.starhub.com/t5/Max...tarhub-maxinfinity/td-p/53981/highlight/false it seems to be giving the same results as what I just tested.
As of now I'm using .374, reason being it has all the functions I need (OpenVPN, iptables, etc.), although I'm losing the HW acceleration in the process .
Update #1: I'm successfully running .270.26 using wan-start instead of openvpn-event for selective routing ! Had to change "Redirect Internet Traffic" under the VPN settings to no and all is working great now (http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showpost.php?p=95172&postcount=31). With that said, it'd still be nice to be able to run on the latest firmware with HW acceleration set to on...
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