Asus AC88U unstable with guest network enabled

[sparky1]

Anyone know why my AC88U becomes unstable when I set up a guest network? I just bought it a couple weeks ago and everything was working well until I decided to turn on the guest network. The router keeps restarting randomly every 5min to 2 hours and sometimes doesn't come back unless I power it off/on. It did this for a couple days and I gave up playing with other settings, turned the guest network off, and it has been rock solid stable again. Any ideas on where to start? Is there a known setting that doesn't cooperate well with guest networks? I have the Merlin 380.62_1 installed.

 

[Clark Griswald]

I am using the current .63 beta2, and guest networks is working correctly on my 88.

 

[L&LD]

Was a reset to factory defaults performed after installing the RMerlin firmware?

Are you using strictly alphanumeric characters for the ssid and passwords?

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/no...l-and-manual-configuration.27115/#post-205573

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac66u-slow-wan-to-lan.12973/page-3#post-269410

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/faq-nvram-and-factory-default-reset.22822/

 

[sparky1]

Was a reset to factory defaults performed after installing the RMerlin firmware?

Are you using strictly alphanumeric characters for the ssid and passwords?

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/no...l-and-manual-configuration.27115/#post-205573

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac66u-slow-wan-to-lan.12973/page-3#post-269410

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/faq-nvram-and-factory-default-reset.22822/

I did the factory reset after the install. My main SSID password is not just alphanumeric, but my guest network was. Both SSIDs are alphanumeric only. Think it might still be an issue even though my main SSID is stable?

I went ahead and re-flashed the merlin firmware, reset to factory and set everything back up including the guest network. It's been running 6 hours now and hasn't hiccuped once. Fingers are crossed but that might have fixed it. It took 2-3 days before it started messing up the first time. Hoping to avoid that this time.

 

[sparky1]

I did the factory reset after the install. My main SSID password is not just alphanumeric, but my guest network was. Both SSIDs are alphanumeric only. Think it might still be an issue even though my main SSID is stable?

I went ahead and re-flashed the merlin firmware, reset to factory and set everything back up including the guest network. It's been running 6 hours now and hasn't hiccuped once. Fingers are crossed but that might have fixed it. It took 2-3 days before it started messing up the first time. Hoping to avoid that this time.

So it worked great for a couple days, so I decided to reboot it to make sure it could handle something so "intense" as a reboot. Ever since it turns on for a few minutes where I can log on/use the internet/change setting/ets, then it reboots and goes to some sort of fail state where not even an ethernet connection will work. I have to manually turn it off/on and it does that same thing... over and over and over. Any ideas?

I tried reflashing it again, resetting to factory, and turning off every setting I didn't absolutely need. Still not much luck.