Advice on firmware please. (RT-N66U)

[smallclone]

Helpful as always. Really appreciate all your time. I will try this when I get home.

 

[smallclone]

It would be a shame to go back to a very old version having got this far. But now that you're an expert in updating firmware it might be an idea to install the previous version, 376.45.

The reason I say that is because you said you're running the media server (which accesses the USB drive) and there's a bug in the current version whereby it doesn't detect new files when they're added to the USB drive.

It's also possible that it's the media server the stopping your disk from spinning down. Have you checked the setting at Tools > Other Settings > Disk spindown idle time ?

Right, I've gone back to 376.45. With the same settings.

I then changed disk spindown time to 600 seconds. But it is still spinning. The media server status still says "scanning", and it's been doing that for 15 minutes now. Is that's what it is? No devices are accessing it.

I've also turned FTP access completely off. But it's still chugging away like it's reading it. I will definitely have to go back to my old firmware version if this can't be fixed. If that even works.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I don't use the media server myself but from what I've read on here it will scan everything in your media library when the router is turned on. If you have a lot of files it can take a long time.

 

[smallclone]

I've just turned DLNA off completely, This has made a difference to the HDD. Yay!

But I presume I won't be able to use it as a media server for playstation and tvs etc? That shouldn't be a problem to be honest.

 

[ColinTaylor]

But I presume I won't be able to use it as a media server for playstation and tvs etc?

That's true. Unfortunately the media server component is closed source so RMerlin can't fix any problems with it. Everytime ASUS updates it it seems like they fix one thing and break another.

I gave up trying to use routers and NAS's as media severs, it was to much hassle and they never worked properly. I ended up buying a dedicated server and using that instead.

How's everything else? All working now?

 

[smallclone]

That's true. Unfortunately the media server component is closed source so RMerlin can't fix any problems with it. Everytime ASUS updates it it seems like they fix one thing and break another.

I gave up trying to use routers and NAS's as media severs, it was to much hassle and they never worked properly. I ended up buying a dedicated server and using that instead.

How's everything else? All working now?

Yeah I think so. Cheers. I assigned the other router as an access point on 192.168.1.2. I turned off DNLA and it seems to be ok. My wired connection isn't as fast as it should be on my main pc (it was 60Mbps instead of the usual 150Mbps), but I'm not sure that's a fault of the firmware?

 

[ColinTaylor]

I assigned the other router as an access point on 192.168.1.2.

You'll probably want to change the "IP Pool Starting Address" at LAN > DHCP Server to start at 192.168.1.3 to ensure that DHCP doesn't give out the .2 address to one of your clients.

Alternatively, you can leave that as it is and reserve the IP address (192.168.1.2) at the bottom of that page ("Enable Manual Assignment" = Yes, then add the entry to "Manually Assigned IP around the DHCP list")

My wired connection isn't as fast as it should be on my main pc (it was 60Mbps instead of the usual 150Mbps), but I'm not sure that's a fault of the firmware?

I can't think of anything obvious about the router that would cause that, especially if it's not effecting any of your other machines.

Cheers

 

[smallclone]

A final word of thanks for saving my skin.

cheers

 

[smallclone]

Bump.

So unfortunately I have still got wired speed problems and wired transfer rate problems.

Before updating firmware I was on 13 MB/s over gb ethernet from pc to my USB connected to router.

Now it's barely 8MB/s. which is disappointing. Suggestions welcome.

 

[smallclone]

Fixed. thanks again.