Good Evening,
I recently started to help a friend upgrade their equipment at a small coffee shop he runs. We put in the AC68P and installed the Merlin fork 374.43_2-04j9527 since several people on the forum seemed to advocate that if one desired stability above all that it was a good build to use (vs. the latest Merlin Asuswrt). Things have been working well but I noticed about 5 minutes after turning the 5Ghz radio on and setting it up so it had a different SSID that when I tried to connect to it (the SSID was being broadcasted successfully) the connection wouldn't even bring up the password request it would just drop and come up with a diagnostic recommendation window. I went back in and switched the channel in the 5Ghz from 20/40/80 to just 80 and the 2.4Ghz is on 20/40. After rebooting this seemed to work and multiple devices connected just fine to the 5Ghz band.
I tried searching for some guides on what other tweaks to the radio might be recommended in the environment we are using the router in (small coffee shop that is easily covered by the range of this router) but only found this:
http://blog.ittoby.com/2013/01/setup-and-tweak-your-new-asus-rt-ac66u.html
I figured I would ask the community here if you had any other recommendations on what settings I can change to make the broadcasts stable and efficient at dealing with 15-25 customers (likely with at least one wireless device of some kind trying to connect and stay connected).
Right now the main 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands are secured with WPA2 and those are for employees and then I activated a 2.4Ghz guest network and 5Ghz guest network as well. All of them have their own unique SSID. Other than the changes above the rest of the settings on the radios are on the default or auto.
I appreciate any help or recommendations! And if I missed this already being addressed elsewhere please just point me in the right direction and I will read up there.
Thank you kindly,
Taelvin
I recently started to help a friend upgrade their equipment at a small coffee shop he runs. We put in the AC68P and installed the Merlin fork 374.43_2-04j9527 since several people on the forum seemed to advocate that if one desired stability above all that it was a good build to use (vs. the latest Merlin Asuswrt). Things have been working well but I noticed about 5 minutes after turning the 5Ghz radio on and setting it up so it had a different SSID that when I tried to connect to it (the SSID was being broadcasted successfully) the connection wouldn't even bring up the password request it would just drop and come up with a diagnostic recommendation window. I went back in and switched the channel in the 5Ghz from 20/40/80 to just 80 and the 2.4Ghz is on 20/40. After rebooting this seemed to work and multiple devices connected just fine to the 5Ghz band.
I tried searching for some guides on what other tweaks to the radio might be recommended in the environment we are using the router in (small coffee shop that is easily covered by the range of this router) but only found this:
http://blog.ittoby.com/2013/01/setup-and-tweak-your-new-asus-rt-ac66u.html
I figured I would ask the community here if you had any other recommendations on what settings I can change to make the broadcasts stable and efficient at dealing with 15-25 customers (likely with at least one wireless device of some kind trying to connect and stay connected).
Right now the main 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands are secured with WPA2 and those are for employees and then I activated a 2.4Ghz guest network and 5Ghz guest network as well. All of them have their own unique SSID. Other than the changes above the rest of the settings on the radios are on the default or auto.
I appreciate any help or recommendations! And if I missed this already being addressed elsewhere please just point me in the right direction and I will read up there.
Thank you kindly,
Taelvin
