Plastic_Fork
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Hey all, new here and hoping maybe I can get some insight. I've had this router two days and it's dropping packets on my wired connections. Don't seem to have any problem with wireless. Strangely, it will not drop packets if I am logged into the router's UI, but if I am not logged into the router I will experience packetloss. This seems to only be affecting my wired device and not wireless. Running the latest AsusWRT-Merlin firmware (v374.43_2) and did a factory reset after updating and configuring the router. I've tried two different network cards and I have no issues with packetloss with my 8 year old Linksys WRT54G router (using the last available Linksys firmware), so it is not my network cards or PC. I've tried both routers with the same setup and only the RT-AC68U is dropping packets.
I have a Motorola SB6141 modem which goes to the router (which is my gateway). Then I have my one PC connected to a LAN port on the router. This is my only wired device. Everything else in the house is wireless. Wireless devices don't seem to have any issues. Just my wired PC is dropping packets. But only if I'm not logged into the router's UI. Which is strange.
Here are two seperate 10 minute ping tests. The first one was done with Firefox open but not logged into the router UI. The second one was done with Firefox open and was logged into the router UI.
First test - not logged into the router UI:
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Pinging www.dslreports.com [64.91.255.98] with 32 bytes of data:
Ping statistics for 64.91.255.98:
Packets: Sent = 291, Received = 218, Lost = 73 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 3000ms, Average = 91ms
Second test - logged into the router UI:
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Pinging www.dslreports.com [64.91.255.98] with 32 bytes of data:
Ping statistics for 64.91.255.98:
Packets: Sent = 552, Received = 552, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 76ms, Average = 45ms
Almost half the total amount of data packets were sent on the first test compared to the second due to all the timeouts and dropped packets. I don't understand why being logged into the router UI makes any difference in relation to not dropping packets. I'm not using DHCP for my LAN though. All my devices are hardcoded to a certain IP (other than the router pulling an IP for the WAN from the modem).
After some additional testing there's been no change. I've been using it with IPv6 disabled, but I turned it on and configured IPv6 and there's no change. I've also tried switching LAN ports on the back of the router in case I had a bad port. Tested with wireless turned off and turned on. Nothing I do seems to fix the problem. I don't care for the prospect of leaving Firefox minimized in the background while logged into the router UI just to stop my packetloss.
In addition to this, I was having the same problem with the new Linksys WRT1900AC. I bought it a few weeks ago and after dealing with the same issue, I thought it was a bad unit (or firmware - the router is brand new and only a few months old) so I returned it and got the Asus instead since it's been out longer with tuned firmware. So two brand new routers doing the same thing, although the Asus seems to cope much better as my latency isn't spiking way up on my online games or Ventrilo like it was with the Linksys WRT1900AC. And my 8 year old WRT54G isn't experiencing any of the packetloss these two routers are. Any suggestions are welcome.
I have a Motorola SB6141 modem which goes to the router (which is my gateway). Then I have my one PC connected to a LAN port on the router. This is my only wired device. Everything else in the house is wireless. Wireless devices don't seem to have any issues. Just my wired PC is dropping packets. But only if I'm not logged into the router's UI. Which is strange.
Here are two seperate 10 minute ping tests. The first one was done with Firefox open but not logged into the router UI. The second one was done with Firefox open and was logged into the router UI.
First test - not logged into the router UI:
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Pinging www.dslreports.com [64.91.255.98] with 32 bytes of data:
Ping statistics for 64.91.255.98:
Packets: Sent = 291, Received = 218, Lost = 73 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 3000ms, Average = 91ms
Second test - logged into the router UI:
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Pinging www.dslreports.com [64.91.255.98] with 32 bytes of data:
Ping statistics for 64.91.255.98:
Packets: Sent = 552, Received = 552, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 76ms, Average = 45ms
Almost half the total amount of data packets were sent on the first test compared to the second due to all the timeouts and dropped packets. I don't understand why being logged into the router UI makes any difference in relation to not dropping packets. I'm not using DHCP for my LAN though. All my devices are hardcoded to a certain IP (other than the router pulling an IP for the WAN from the modem).
After some additional testing there's been no change. I've been using it with IPv6 disabled, but I turned it on and configured IPv6 and there's no change. I've also tried switching LAN ports on the back of the router in case I had a bad port. Tested with wireless turned off and turned on. Nothing I do seems to fix the problem. I don't care for the prospect of leaving Firefox minimized in the background while logged into the router UI just to stop my packetloss.
In addition to this, I was having the same problem with the new Linksys WRT1900AC. I bought it a few weeks ago and after dealing with the same issue, I thought it was a bad unit (or firmware - the router is brand new and only a few months old) so I returned it and got the Asus instead since it's been out longer with tuned firmware. So two brand new routers doing the same thing, although the Asus seems to cope much better as my latency isn't spiking way up on my online games or Ventrilo like it was with the Linksys WRT1900AC. And my 8 year old WRT54G isn't experiencing any of the packetloss these two routers are. Any suggestions are welcome.
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