Asus Firmware 3.0.0.4.374.542 Released

[KGB7]

I am also using two AC68U's, one as a router and the other as a media bridge, and am connecting at 702Mbps, the same speed as with 374.501. I am also using 9dBi antennae on both units as well.

My routers are Literally 3 floors apart (im in a 4 story townhouse),


Edit;

I disabled NAT Acceleration, and my link speed went from 104Mbps to 175.5Mbps!!



Edit 2;

Network Map Tab on Media Bridge (ac68) shows a steady 175.5Mbps. But when i check Wireless log and refresh it every second, the link speed (Stations List) is all over the place; Its any where from 1Mbps to 117Mbps.


When i check the Wireless Log on the main router (ac68) and check the Stations List; the link speed is a freaking mess. The PC that is hard wired in to the Media Bridge, still shows a WiFi signal, a TX/RX rate and a -dmb signal level.

Im going back to beta firmware 501 and wait for firmware .905.



Asus, i always liked your products, but this is just too funny to be mad at.


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Edit 3;

Disabling Turbo QAM, improves and stabilizes link speed between the router ac68 and the media bridge ac68. The links speed is now at a steady 195Mbps.
Stations List in Wireless Log shows a steady Tx Rate 175.5Mbps and Rx Rate 216.7Mbps. I can safely conclude that Turbo QAM is broken in this new firmware.

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[KGB7]

This morning i've been testing different settings and doing file transfers over wifi, between a pc that is connected to Media Bridge and a laptop that is hard wired in to the Router. Both are AC68.
For testing purposes i used a single 10GB avi file.


FW .542 - an average speed 7MB/s
FW Beta .501 - an average speed of 8MB/s
FW .371 - an average speed of 6MB/s


With firmware .542, the transfer speed constantly fluctuates by as much as 0.6MB/s. While with firmware .501 the fluctuation was rare and at an average of 0.1MB/s.

Enabling or Disabling Turbo QAM made no difference with firmware 542. But in firmware 501, you do see a 1.5MB/s boost in transfer speed by enabling Turbo QAM.


Another interesting thing that i have observed, is that when i ping the PC that is hard wired in to media bridge from a laptop that is hard wired in to a router, i get different results between two firmwares. With 501 its a constant 1ms, but with 542 it varies between 1ms-8ms.


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[reallynotnick]

Just had to restart my router after less than 24 hours on .542, I updated from .205 was there some sort of power button holding I was supposed to do to properly wipe it when upgrading?

 

[jj92942000]

The firewall still has to be disabled for the USB 3 and USB 2 hard disks to be accessed wirelessly. Asus probably needs 3 years to even notice the problem.

Agreed duplicated, but I can still have access to hard disks thru my mobile phones and tablets, just not on PCs running Win 7 Ultimate. If you turn off router's firewall, click on Network, it appears and stays there for ~10 min after turning firewall back on. Then it disappeared on 1 PC but I can access on the other PC. How inconsistent and strange?

 

[chercm]

Merlin would you be integrating this into your firmware?

 

[RMerlin]

Merlin would you be integrating this into your firmware?

Integrating what specifically?

 

[chercm]

I mean seems that the ctf locking is the fix in your firmware ? Now in the new firmware from asus no longer is there level 1 or 2

 

[RMerlin]

I mean seems that the ctf locking is the fix in your firmware ? Now in the new firmware from asus no longer is there level 1 or 2

To be honest, I'm not sure what Asus mean with "CTF locking". I was aware of a reboot issue happening with some ISPs like that Singapore one, but I don't know if that's what they were referring to.

CTF level 2 was probably just a mistake in 501's webui. The AC56 and AC68 don't currently support Broadcom's Flow Accelerator (which is what Level 2 means), so it shouldn't have offered the option anyway.

 

[chercm]

Any case the rebooting and 5ghz seems to be fixed using the 34_2

 

[KGB7]

Just had to restart my router after less than 24 hours on .542, I updated from .205 was there some sort of power button holding I was supposed to do to properly wipe it when upgrading?

Hold the reset button down for 15sec ( or until you see power led flash) while the router is powered On.

 

[rtcomputersinc]

Been quiet here has anyone been having any additional problems with this new version?

 

[jj92942000]

The firewall still has to be disabled for the USB 3 and USB 2 hard disks to be accessed wirelessly. Asus probably needs 3 years to even notice the problem.

Grab the new Firmware Beta Version 3.0.0.4.374.573 fixes USB HDD issue. Also, firmware working well and stable.

 

[intermilan]

Grab the new Firmware Beta Version 3.0.0.4.374.573 fixes USB HDD issue. Also, firmware working well and stable.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[whsbuss]

Been running .542 for almost 2 weeks..... only had one freeze that lasted 10 seconds or so.

 

[chunlianghere]

there is a problem with the vpn pptp.

even though i enable software compression in my win 7, it still show 0% compression under vpn status.

revert back to 3.0.0.4.374_454 solve the problem.