Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.354.28 Beta 1

[janosek]

<snip> I think I shall just go back and wait for Asus to update their builds. This is not worth my time. Thanks but no thanks.

Beta means Beta. Asus has issue to work out.

 

[RMerlin]

Not sure where I saw you mention to not report issues with speeds for the AC66U... As you can see above you mentioned that the AC66U should be stable. Therefore I submit that it is not. I think I shall just go back and wait for Asus to update their builds. This is not worth my time. Thanks but no thanks.

I didn't see any previous mention that it was on an RT-AC66U.

 

[geko53]

I didn't see any previous mention that it was on an RT-AC66U.

I would like to suggest not to feed trolls any longer, Merlin - it's not worth wasting lots of your valuable time...

Ciao
Gerald

 

[tikiman1]

My connection speed & throughput dropped with this firmware. I've always had the reset issue with the 5Ghz radio. Reset every morning & good to go @ a solid 1.3Gbps but now it's best connection is @ 866Mbps. Transferring a 4.3GB DVD takes 1/3 longer than with the previous firmware. There's also more audio interference (audio system noise upon wireless transfers) on the wireless AC computer with this firmware. The system is using the Asus PCE-AC66 wireless card.

 

[RMerlin]

My connection speed & throughput dropped with this firmware. I've always had the reset issue with the 5Ghz radio. Reset every morning & good to go @ a solid 1.3Gbps but now it's best connection is @ 866Mbps. Transferring a 4.3GB DVD takes 1/3 longer than with the previous firmware. There's also more audio interference (audio system noise upon wireless transfers) on the wireless AC computer with this firmware. The system is using the Asus PCE-AC66 wireless card.

The audio interference shouldn't be related to the router but to the network card inside the computer. I wonder if maybe you would be on a different channel than you were previously, which could explain both points. Did you try using a fixed channel in the lower range then the higher range of channels to see if it made any difference?

 

[tikiman1]

The lower channels get the 866Mbps connection. The higher channels connect @ 1.3Gbps but maintain the same throughput as the lower channels. It runs between 35MBps to 40MBps whereas with the 27 firmware it ran between 45MBps to 55MBps. Definitely a slower transfer speed for the same DVD folder. I always use the same one to test transfer speed. Real world type test & all that. I also use LAN Speed Test for comparison.

I keep the 5Ghz radio on 80Mhz & the 2.4Ghz radio on 40Mhz for max transfer speed. The 2.4 band is rock solid @ 450Mbps with the Asus AC card. (except on my laptop with an Intel 6300 & added antenna upgrade, 300Mbps max unless right next to router so not the routers fault) Transfers still average about 23MBps with bursts to 30MBps. Pretty good for the 2.4Ghz band considering the 2.4 wireless saturation in my neighborhood. I pick up about 8 different networks.

I am aware about the audio noise being the fault of the card & its drivers, I just found it odd & hadn't seen it mentioned before. At least not during my forum lurking.

I also wanted to say thank you RMerlin for all the work you've done on the firmware. It is miles ahead of the stock firmware. Now if Asus would just let you mess with the card drivers.

 

[RMerlin]

The lower channels get the 866Mbps connection. The higher channels connect @ 1.3Gbps but maintain the same throughput as the lower channels. It runs between 35MBps to 40MBps whereas with the 27 firmware it ran between 45MBps to 55MBps. Definitely a slower transfer speed for the same DVD folder. I always use the same one to test transfer speed. Real world type test & all that. I also use LAN Speed Test for comparison.

The issue is probably specific to 802.11ac then. My own LanTest benchmarks saw a definite increase in throughput performance for me with the newer driver on the 5 GHz using an Intel 300 Mbps N card. I don't have the exact test results at hand (they're on my laptop back home), but I was getting a performance increase as high as 20-40 Mbps in one situation.

I know that Asus is working on implementing proper beamforming support (I saw hints of it in the 354 new default settings). I don't know at what state of implementation they are (is it implemented, partly-implemented, or still something to come later?). That might explain why wireless performance on the AC66U in this beta firmware is more erratic (improvement for me, degradation for you). Hopefully once it gets sorted out both platform (802.11n and 802.11ac) will see a similar improvement, with the 802.11ac gaining even more when at long range.

 

[Soul--Reaver]

Think I know what the problem is. I do increase the log_level, but I forgot to also restart syslogd to make it take into account the change.

The funny thing is that while the RT-N66U is still at log level 5 i do not see the DHCP log queries on the system log page but the DHCP log queries are sent to my remote log server.

 

[RMerlin]

The funny thing is that while the RT-N66U is still at log level 5 i do not see the DHCP log queries on the system log page but the DHCP log queries are sent to my remote log server.

The loglevel is what the local syslog daemon will use. It has no impact on a remote syslogd, which will have its own loglevel threshold.

 

[ChatmanR]

Newbie here. How do I enter the script? My old Linksys DD-WRT setup had a clear place place load commands. TIA

That's one way to do it. It can also be done through a Cron job (and this method might do a more thorough job at restarting wireless).

service-start script:

#!/bin/sh
cru a RestartWifi " 0 4 * * * /sbin/service restart_wireless"

That would create a scheduled job at boot time that would entirely restart the wireless services at 4 am every night.

 

[saulos]

Hi RMerlin,
I installed the new DW firmware and seem to work OK so far, 2 days
Good job.
Thanks

 

[alk630]

Is there a way to prevent the OpenVPN Client Settings -> Service State being switched on every time the router is rebooted, i.e. remember the setting? Even when the Service State is 'Off' and I reboot, it is automatically turned back to 'On'. This is not new and has happened in the last few versions.

Is it also possible to correct two minor grammatical errors when you press the Logout button?....change 'Are you sure to log out' to 'Are you sure you want to log out' and then when 'OK' button is pressed 'You have logout successfully' to 'You have logged out successfully'?

 

[RMerlin]

Is there a way to prevent the OpenVPN Client Settings -> Service State being switched on every time the router is rebooted, i.e. remember the setting? Even when the Service State is 'Off' and I reboot, it is automatically turned back to 'On'. This is not new and has happened in the last few versions.

Set "Start with WAN" to "No".

Is it also possible to correct two minor grammatical errors when you press the Logout button?....change 'Are you sure to log out' to 'Are you sure you want to log out' and then when 'OK' button is pressed 'You have logout successfully' to 'You have logged out successfully'?

The firmware code is full of grammatical errors and awkward English translations. I took a quick look at it, and turns out it would be a major undertaking to correct all of these, so I gave up. Some of them are in the dictionary files, but many more are spread throughout the whole firmware code.

 

[alk630]

Set "Start with WAN" to "No".



The firmware code is full of grammatical errors and awkward English translations. I took a quick look at it, and turns out it would be a major undertaking to correct all of these, so I gave up. Some of them are in the dictionary files, but many more are spread throughout the whole firmware code.

Thanks for taking a look anyway and thanks for the Start with WAN setting....I missed that :-/

 

[lfbb]

The time of the second selected entry (03:08:57) should be higher than the first entry.(03:09:08)

Any clue on this?

Thanks

 

[RMerlin]

The time of the second selected entry (03:08:57) should be higher than the first entry.(03:09:08)

Any clue on this?

Thanks

Clocks tend to slew a bit over time. Your clock was probably running a bit slow, and it just got readjusted by NTP. The slew can go either direction.

 

[RMerlin]

Hi RMerlin,
I installed the new DW firmware and seem to work OK so far, 2 days
Good job.
Thanks

Out of curiosity, are you using DualWAN? What type of setup do you have?

 

[kayphoonstar]

Just a quick report that I've been running 354.28 for a couple of days w/o issue. I had tried 354.27 but didn't clear the NVRAM and I had 5ghz slowdowns. I cleared NVRAM before and after the upgrade and all has been well. Also, as noted earlier in this thread, I do seem to get faster connections by setting the wireless channels to Auto.

Thanks!

 

[vdemarco]

Just a quick report that I've been running 354.28 for a couple of days w/o issue. I had tried 354.27 but didn't clear the NVRAM and I had 5ghz slowdowns. I cleared NVRAM before and after the upgrade and all has been well. Also, as noted earlier in this thread, I do seem to get faster connections by setting the wireless channels to Auto.

Thanks!

I can try this, but what i would love to do is save some of the stuff in nvram off, like router address, the SSID names, the dns address and just a few other important things. I am going to look around the nvram settings and try to figure out what to save, i'll report back here later.

 

[hgeorgescu]

Hello again;
I should take this question to 354.28 Beta thread. but since the discussion started here.. here it is: is there any problem with the print subsystem? I have an old lexmark e232, which under Tomato worked just fine (print to port 9100). On Merlin / Asus firmware printing is using LPR, and so far for me has been a hit and miss experience. I am on 354.28 Beta right now, and I've been to little on the previous version to know if it was the same before. Nevertheless, I'm sending the job from the pc, and then I have to recycle power to make it communicate with the router. And some print jobs just vanished. I like the interface and the functionality, but there are a few things which may take me back to Tomato...
Thank you for taking the time to reply.