Asuswrt-Merlin 376.49 is out

[rodak]

Thanks, fixed. It's an issue in Asus's code that I had fixed a few months ago, but came back as I switched to their webui code in 3677.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/commit/c16febc682e42a7d2b789ae7b173f7f1af9fc3de

HI RMerlin, I see that this is fixed in _4, but I just enabled "Server 2" and this setting is missing from gui in server 2 configuration.

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[Deleted member 22229]

I don't think he's talking about Wi-Fi channels. More likely DOCSIS channels on his cable modem.

Yes he is refering to the cable modem channels he has the new SB-6183 that is capable of bonding up to 16 downtream channels. Also seeing the snr's he reported on a few of his channels he has a rf issue going on thats why he modem is doing wierd things.

 

[cofetym]

Kel-l I know you are starting to get frustrated with Asus. What router brands are considering to take it's place?

 

[pikolo]

I have an external HDD connected to my AC66U

With the version 48_3 that I have installed, NAT acceleration must be turned off in order to use the HDD.

Is this problem solved with version 49?

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Kel-l I know you are starting to get frustrated with Asus. What router brands are considering to take it's place?

I dont know as of yet. Looking around and reading reviews it seems they all have there issues with one thing or another.

 

[LoneWolf3574]

Must have missed something here...if you're in the US you should only have 11 channels on 2.4GHz. So what do you have your wireless locale set to? Part of your problem, if you've tried to switch locales to get the extra channels, could be conflicting configuration settings since there are several, where you haven't switched over all the configuration settings that you need to switch to fully get your 13 channels. If this is what you've done (I have no way of knowing, other than channel 13 sounded kind of odd for Arizona *smile*), I'd suggest resetting to factory defaults, and then manually reconfiguring it for your locale and go with the 11 channels that the rest of us have *smile*.

Just a thought. And your choice, of course *smile*.

The modem has 16 bonded channels down and 4 up (SB6183). Locales are hardwired into the router iirc, so that is correct sir . Please don't take this wrong, I was explaining what I had done and the solution I stumbled across in case anybody else had a similar issue later down the line. It's not perfect, but at least they'll know it isn't the router but their modem having issues with their ISP.

As far as still having IPv6 via the router, everything is good for now. It still bothers me that the modem has ~142.5mil correctables and ~2.5mil uncorrectables on that single channel and it's SNR is so low compared to the others.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

The modem has 16 bonded channels down and 4 up (SB6183). Locales are hardwired into the router iirc, so that is correct sir . Please don't take this wrong, I was explaining what I had done and the solution I stumbled across in case anybody else had a similar issue later down the line. It's not perfect, but at least they'll know it isn't the router but their modem having issues with their ISP.

As far as still having IPv6 via the router, everything is good for now. It still bothers me that the modem has ~142.5mil correctables and ~2.5mil uncorrectables on that single channel and it's SNR is so low compared to the others.

If your modem is reporting the correct signal information you have a rf issue going on there. If all your connections and splitters are solid you may need a tech out to investigate whats going on with the tanked snr's.

 

[Drearylands]

Apologies if you've already done this, but have you done a factory reset of the networking on the IOS devices?


I experienced the similar with my IPad minis and a couple of Iphone 6s.
After upgrading to first beta release and then latest Merlin alongside factory resetting the networking on the devices I've experienced no problems.

This did not work (reset network settings).

I'm tired. I will set in 2.4ghz.

 

[cofetym]

Kel-L

I dont know as of yet. Looking around and reading reviews it seems they all have there issues with one thing or another.

Stay where you are for awhile. I think we need to give router manufacturers time to perfect products. Rather than pumping them out and trying to fix lots of bugs once on the market.
I've personally been a bit of a router junkie and have now decided to chill for a bit.
I admire devoted developers like Merlin, John etc; that contribute so much of their time to help streamline and improve products for home hobbyist. I'd rather give some of my hard earned dollars to them.

Keep up the great work guys.

Does John have a donation spot yet?
Another donation headed your way Merlin.

 

[RogerSC]

The modem has 16 bonded channels down and 4 up (SB6183). Locales are hardwired into the router iirc, so that is correct sir . Please don't take this wrong, I was explaining what I had done and the solution I stumbled across in case anybody else had a similar issue later down the line. It's not perfect, but at least they'll know it isn't the router but their modem having issues with their ISP.

Sorry, I'm in a Comcast backwater, and 16 bonded channels is unheard of. I have 4 bonded channels, that's it, that's all I can get, about 30Mbps download. Ridiculous. Maybe someday Comcast will have some competition here and have a reason to add bandwidth, so we'll come closer to getting what we're paying for. We pay as much as everyone else, just get crap service. Stuck in the wayback machine.

At least IPv6 (which I don't need) works well here *smile*.

 

[rangerlg]

I wanted to see if anyone else has my issue. I'm trying to install 376.49_4 to my AC68U and I keep getting this error when I hit upload, "Firmware upgrade unsuccessfully. It may result from incorrect image or error transmission. Please check the version of firmware and try again." I have downloaded the image several times and checked that the SHA matches. This router is the T-Mobile branded TM-AC1900, but I flashed Merlin on it when I first got it (before TMo locked them down) and all flashes after have been successful. Am I missing something? Thank you for the assistance.

 

[RussellInCincinnati]

rangerlg, you will have to replace your CFE (bootloader) with something like 1.0.2.0 (US). This procedure is not trivial until you have done it a couple of times. It involves saving a copy of your current bootloader (in order to extract out 3 internet MAC addresses), and typing those found addresses into an existing 1.0.2.0 US bootloader with a binary editor. Then copy that new bootloader (customized with the 3 correct MAC addresses gleaned from your old bootloader) back into your router. After a couple of reboots you will be free to upgrade your router into a generic AC68u machine with the latest Merlin firmware.

The slightest mistake in doing the rather trivial edits would probably scotch your router irretrievably. But at least free binary editors are easy to find and download, as are 1.0.2.0 US firmware images.

 

[whsbuss]

rangerlg, you will have to replace your CFE (bootloader) with something like 1.0.2.0 (US). This procedure is not trivial until you have done it a couple of times. It involves saving a copy of your current bootloader (in order to extract out 3 internet MAC addresses), and typing those found addresses into an existing 1.0.2.0 US bootloader with a binary editor. Then copy that new bootloader (customized with the 3 correct MAC addresses gleaned from your old bootloader) back into your router. After a couple of reboots you will be free to upgrade your router into a generic AC68u machine with the latest Merlin firmware.

The slightest mistake in doing the rather trivial edits would probably scotch your router irretrievably. But at least free binary editors are easy to find and download, as are 1.0.2.0 US firmware images.

I'm not sure I want to try this. There must be a better way to update from my Merlin 376.47

 

[Bamsefar]

I seem to have some sort of 5GHz wifi client dropping. Both mine and my wifes Sony Z3 / Z1 compact just suddenly disconnects from Wifi (5Ghz), and the reconnects more or less direct - the time between disconnect and reconnect has to be over 1 minute since my "watchdog routine" notice this...

Is this a common thing, well known?

 

[szary]

Partition deleted?

I have a problem with this firmware...
I have this firmware on N66U. I'm using Merlin firmwares for a long time and never had any problems with it, until now. My setup is simple. I have USD 2.5" HD connected to my router with Entware and transmission on it. And I'm steaming movies from it using SMB. Before updated (although I'm not sure what firmware version I had before this update - I'm fairly sure it was 376.3x something). HD had some old configuration with one NTFS partition with data and entware on it (this setup had ~2 years). After I installed this update this partition was deleted and replaced by empty NTFS partition. I lost all my files.

I moved on this time I prepared 2 partitions: ext2 for Entware and NTFS for torrented data. This worked for 2 weeks fine (torrenting and watching movies). Today I added 2 new downloads to transmission. Few minutes after that I wanted to check the download status and I cannot connect to transmission. This happens occasionally to me in the past so I just did usual thing - I rebooted the router (using power button on the router).

Router restarted fine but I lost the NTFS partition again. ext2 partition with transmission is fine, but I lost all the data again.

Everything was fine until this update.

Any ideas what could happen?

 

[RMerlin]

Folks, please try to start separate threads for issues that are NOT specific to this particular build. Release threads always end up being monstrous, never-ending chains of random issue discussions, making it impossible for anyone to easily follow on them.

 

[RMerlin]

I seem to have some sort of 5GHz wifi client dropping. Both mine and my wifes Sony Z3 / Z1 compact just suddenly disconnects from Wifi (5Ghz), and the reconnects more or less direct - the time between disconnect and reconnect has to be over 1 minute since my "watchdog routine" notice this...

Is this a common thing, well known?

I have zero stability issue with my 5 GHz devices. As always, wifi issues can come from a very wide range of causes, which can be related to the router, its settings, the clients, your environment, etc...

I would start by going through the usual recommended troubleshooting steps - see the sticky in the general Asus Wireless forum.

You can always try this test build too:

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showpost.php?p=156828&postcount=273

 

[Fester1952]

I wasn't having any 5GHz speed issues just the one problem on my retina iMac when it woke from sleep, most times would not reconnect to the network. Your test build appears to have resolved that.

 

[RMerlin]

376.49_5 was uploaded, fixing the CVE-2014-9583 security hole.

 

[jmantn]

Thanks! Does this include your stop gap measure for Asus's upcoming new firmware and the newer bootloader?