ASUS RT-N66U mysteries

[Rick Smith]

I have 2 issues with my ASUS RT-N66U I'm hoping someone can shed some light on:

1. A year and half ago, I upgraded from my trusty Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato to the ASUS RT-N66U. I used the same SSID / password, to make the transition easier. I was unable to connect my laptop and other devices to the RT-N66U at that point.

I was using an ASUS RT-N16 to test out ASUS routers prior to the transition, and the RT-N16 ran like a champ with the same SSID / password. But after being unable to connect with the RT-N66U, I reverted to the RT-N16, and that router started to have issues too connecting to my wifi devices like my Windows 7 HP laptop.

After extensive tweaking (swapping in Merlin firmware, clearing cache, resetting the routers, etc.,) nothing would work. My laptop and some other devices just wouldn't connect to the same SSID / password on the ASUS Rt-N66U.

So I gave up, and shelved the ASUS.


2. Earlier this year, we upgrade our internet to Cox fiber gigablast (1gb up / down), and Cox gave me a Netgear R6300... I had issues with accessing the cameras outside my wifi network, so just for snits and giggles, I placed the ASUS Rt-n66u in service.

To my surprise, the RT-n66u worked liked a charm!! The SSID / password problem was gone, and all my devices could connect beautifully!!!

The RT-n66u worked like a champ from January to 2 weeks ago, never had an issues. Then 2 weeks ago all devices stopped being able to connect to the wifi network. The phones, laptops, all would try to connect, and then there would be a prompt "enter the password" and after entering the password, nothing would connect.

So we reset the RT-n66u hoping the problem would be resolved. Nope, nothing worked. Wifi was simply not working any more, and we were back to square one.

I have since purchased a new Netgear R6900 from CostCo that appears to work now (after more trials and tribulations - yeesh - http://www.snbforums.com/threads/st...ssues-with-r6300-and-r6900.33074/#post-265358 )...

Thanks to a kind stranger, I resolved the issue with the Netgear routers. But I'm stumped by the issues with the Rt-N66U... why won't it work any more?

Would love some insight on this problem. Thanks!!

 

[Zirescu]

Did you reset the RT-N66U back to factory defaults and setup the router manually? Using the same SSID as previous routers without reseting the client settings is a big part of your problem. The client stores settings that are related to the router and must be cleared out (by deleting any stored client settings) if you're going to use the same SSID as previous to have the client use new settings related to the new router.