Updated to Asus firmware 49479 from merlin 386.7 stable release.
5 ghz broke down within 12 hours.
Timeline:
- Merlin 386.7 beta 1 was stable for a week.
- Merlin 386.7 beta 2 was stable for around 4 days (performed JFFS restore as recommended).
- Merlin 386.7 stable release which ran for a day ok.
- Asus 49479 which broke down 5 ghz wifi again.
So now back to merlin 386.7 stable release.
Ok, now the 5Ghz break down again!!weird. I have 5Ghz still working for another day now.
I will see if it's still working for next few days.
may I know when u revet 49479 back to 386.7. Did you reset all settings and setup again?Updated to Asus firmware 49479 from merlin 386.7 stable release.
5 ghz broke down within 12 hours.
Timeline:
- Merlin 386.7 beta 1 was stable for a week.
- Merlin 386.7 beta 2 was stable for around 4 days (performed JFFS restore as recommended).
- Merlin 386.7 stable release which ran for a day ok.
- Asus 49479 which broke down 5 ghz wifi again.
So now back to merlin 386.7 stable release.
Thanks, coz I can see Merlin 386.7 is on build 48966, so if from Asus official (49479) revert to 386.7 is a downgrade, not sure if need to reset the router. hahaNo, I did not do a hard reset. Just a “dirty” upgrade to 386.7 merlin. Now running 1 day and 16 hours fine.
Yes, 49479 is having the same issue. I've changed to Merlin build 386.7. No issue so far as @MotRcan confirm twice in 24 hours, my some 5ghz and some 2.4ghz devices were kicked off on 49479 until i rebooted the ax68u. back to 42095 for me. i cant believe Asus has yet to really fix this issue after so many fw updates that i need to roll back to a 1 year old firmware.
New user here, and as a fellow RT-AX68U user, glad this thread exists.Yes, 49479 is having the same issue. I've changed to Merlin build 386.7. No issue so far as @MotR
Awesome thanks for give me the update.Merlin 386.7 is running fine with 5 ghz on my AX68u for over a week now.
I have been looking at the changelogs of merlin 386.7 and Asus 49479 to see if I can find something on why Merlin works and Asus’ firmware doesn’t.
The one thing I could find is that Asus fixed OpenSSL CVE-2022-0778 in firmware 49479. That is fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1n. And Merlin 386.7 uses OpenSSL 1.1.1o. I have unfortunately no clue whether this is relevant.
The issue seems to be somehow related to authentication. If a certain device cannot connect to 5 ghz anymore, another previously not connected device, can still connect to 5 ghz on the AX68u until it refuses to (re)connect too.
So I have been running all my routers on Merlin 386.7 for about a week and its been rock solid. No 5GHz dropouts on my AX68Us.Fantastic forum for the ax68u! The 2 best pieces of advice so far has been downgrading to 42808 and if you're in Canada like me ***set 5ghz band to a channel to 149 and above!*** Pure game changer with throughput and signal power! After downgrading to 42808 no more 5ghz drops for a good 2 weeks. Just had a router log in problem that need a router reset. Programmed the router to auto reset once a week and it seems to be working. Hopefully the new firmware(either official or merlin) is good....still waiting for consensus, haven't made the leap yet.
changed it from auto to 161 and disabled 160ghz
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