Asus RT-AC68U v3.0.0.4.384.20942 2018/05/21

[Lincoln C Vargas Jr]

Well I'd do a settings backup, then try an nvram erase. If that doesn't do it you can roll back to 20648 and restore the settings. At least then you'll still have AiMesh.

How do you do the nvram erase? is that the one you hold for 5 seconds?

 

[Sammy2]

Ruh roh..

Bet it wasn't "fixed".

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[Ronald Schwerer]

How do you do the nvram erase? is that the one you hold for 5 seconds?

You can hold the WPS for about 25 seconds or until the power light starts flashing. Or you can go through ssh and run "nvram erase".

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Ruh roh..

Bet it wasn't "fixed".

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But he was already running 20648 with no problems. So that probably wasn't it.

 

[Lincoln C Vargas Jr]

You can hold the WPS for about 25 seconds or until the power light starts flashing. Or you can go through ssh and run "nvram erase".

Well didn't work. I cleared but still no option for aimesh anymore. Can I just uoload the old firmware?

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Well didn't work. I cleared but still no option for aimesh anymore. Can I just uoload the old firmware?

You can try doing a manual firmware upgrade through the webgui. If that doesn't install it, you can do it through ssh command: mtd-write2 {trxfilename} linux

 

[Erdem]

I have a AiMesh setup with RT-AC86u main router and RT-AC68u as node. When I upload new firmware to AC68u, my network file transfer
speed drops 22MB/s to 4MB/s. So now I downgraded to previous version at the moment.

 

[Grisu]

I have a AiMesh setup with RT-AC86u main router and RT-AC68u as node. When I upload new firmware to AC68u, my network file transfer
speed drops 22MB/s to 4MB/s. So now I downgraded to previous version at the moment.

try both 68U and 86U on 20942 now, works fine for me.

Only problem is 2,4G on 86U if I use 40MHz bandwith, than it goes down to even 1Mbps download (while upload is slower but almost ok 20Mbps).
20MHz is quite ok with 60Mbps, auto 20/40 doesnt use 40, same speed as 20.
And there is NO OTHER network around me!

 

[Squall Leonhart]

This firmware is still crashing and rebooting in media bridge mode as reported back in 3.0.0.4.384.20624

 

[Enzowns]

Yup. I have an RT-AC3100 Router with two TM-AC68U's and one RT-AC68U Node flashed this morning with no issues thus far. I still have 3 nodes and they're all on 942 f/w as is the Router itself.

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You update automatically in the GUI? Or do you do individual nodes just in case? =P

 

[Sammy2]

This firmware is still crashing and rebooting in media bridge mode as reported back in 3.0.0.4.384.20624

While my routers aren't crashing AP clients are disconnecting often on AiMesh nodes. Ready to put the nodes on AP mode and let AiMesh go.

Good idea with a bad implementation I'm afraid.

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[Sammy2]

You update automatically in the GUI? Or do you do individual nodes just in case? =P

I did one update on the main router. Nodes followed suit.

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[Squall Leonhart]

While my routers aren't crashing AP clients are disconnecting often on AiMesh nodes. Ready to put the nodes on AP mode and let AiMesh go.

From my guess, the wifi driver in the 624+ firmwares is trying to resolve the issue where a wireless bridge appears as a wired device, however the way it is being done is extremely unstable as it is somehow faking the 2.4ghz radio so as to make use of broadcoms Bridged Client Mode (brcm-2.4 only)

 

[Erdem]

try both 68U and 86U on 20942 now, works fine for me.

Only problem is 2,4G on 86U if I use 40MHz bandwith, than it goes down to evon 1Mbps download (while upload is slower but almost ok 20Mbps).
20MHz is quite ok with 60Mbps, auto 20/40 doesnt use 40, same speed as 20.
And there is NO OTHER network around me!

Already tried, just reverted 68u back and back to normal speeds now. I couldn't find route cause for this. I don't use 2.4G much, I do my tests with 5G, 80MHz.

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

For those seeing clients disconnecting repeatedly, try reducing or turning-off Roaming Assist for that band. The AiMesh firmware could be doing exactly what you told it to do = disconnecting when signal strength < threshold. Then the client re-connects to the best signal, which could be the same router/node.

 

[Sammy2]

For those seeing clients disconnecting repeatedly, try reducing or turning-off Roaming Assist for that band. The AiMesh firmware could be doing exactly what you told it to do = disconnecting when signal strength < threshold. Then the client re-connects to the best signal, which could be the same router/node.

Just disabled it. I'll report back either way.

So with this disabled will mobile devices no longer be steered to the best router but devices connected in Bridge mode style not get dropped?

If this is the case, what's the point of AiMesh? I may as well just set the modes up as bridges..

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[Squall Leonhart]

won't do zot, the Router (AC88U) isn't the one bumping the bridge(68U) off, just changing the bridges firmware resolves it

 

[Sammy2]

won't do zot, the Router (AC88U) isn't the one bumping the bridge(68U) off, just changing the bridges firmware resolves it

In my case, the bridges aren't getting dropped but their client's are. All routers on 942 f/w BTW.

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[arthurlien]

Issue Collection for RT-AC68U
1. Media Bridge crashed

 

[Sammy2]

So that's top of the list on the roadmap?

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