Thank you for the info! Some interesting read there.Have you checked Asus official thread?? Asus did change in their close-source how the network map check clients and now they have a beta for this, check nr 3 (3. Update client list in real-time to react offline or sleeping device) under "Enhanced points"
http://www.snbforums.com/threads/be...hecking-bug-in-network-map.29269/#post-225954
So please behave and play nice because I can understand if something goes wrong and not working that nobody will be happy but then again to be rude you wont get any help at all.
See screenshot from my RT-AC87U with firmware version 380.57_0 with 12-14 client in network for the moment,
The Lion's Share of the problems many are having with this release can be traced right back to the latest ASUS firmware version Merlin is always based on, and incorporates.
To an item, every single issue I encountered while running this first incarnation of the 380 series here with Merlin is the identical behavior I encountered several weeks back when I innocently installed ASUS 3.0.0.4.380.1031 and my 68U went all to hell!
I flashed back to 378.56_2 and everything is back to normal and working like a brand new out of the box 68U should.
What ever changes the ASUS engineers made to the SDK and wi-fi drivers in their first 380 public release caused nothing short of a Train Wreck for anyone effected and because of the close relationship Merlin firmware has with the stock versions, it too has been turned into a similar mess for me and many, many others.
I am trying to update my AC66U from 56_2 to 57.
I am getting an error that the image upgrade was unsuccessful due to error in transmission or the wrong file. I downloaded it from two different locations and it didn't change the error. Any ideas?
Wireless driver changed to support the latest version of the AC68U router: You need to do a factory reset to change the hidden NVRAM settings to the new version of the driver!Yes 378.57_0 wifi (5g) is unusable slow on 68U... back to 56_2
Wireless driver changed to support the latest version of the AC68U router: You need to do a factory reset to change the hidden NVRAM settings to the new version of the driver!
Surprisingly, it took me a while to come to the conclusion that it was the firmware. I reverted to the previous Merlin release, and now all is well again. Not sure if this was a Merlin tweak or something in the main Asus branch that caused this issue.
I couldn't get wifi working correctly on my AC68U either. Seemed to work on 5GHz after rebooting twice, but never got data connection to work at 2.4GHz. Went back to 56_2, too.Wireless driver changed to support the latest version of the AC68U router: You need to do a factory reset to change the hidden NVRAM settings to the new version of the driver!
I couldn't get wifi working correctly on my AC68U either. Seemed to work on 5GHz after rebooting twice, but never got data connection to work at 2.4GHz. Went back to 56_2, too.
Can someone help newbie here and Wifi Mac address all messed up. No idea how to use nvram and what it does etc. I dont wnat to restore to factory and start from scratch
Any help really appreciated. I delete Mac address and they are not deleted . I reverted back to 378.56_2 but no change now ?
Thanks Merlin for all your hard work, Merry Christmas (bit late here but oh well).
I have to report that the USB 3 port (on the back), does not work on my AC68U however, if I plug the USB 3 stick into the USB 2 port it works just fine.
Using a Sandisk Extreme 64GB and never had any issue's with it up to now, and I have had the drive since purchase.
Will there be any resolution to this?
Hi Merlin, guys. I am still having problem with what i can only call latency on 380 release and had same problem with 378 release code.
What happens is that when i request new page by clicking on link it takes 5-10 seconds, yes seconds for page to come up in chrome.
With 374 release i have no such issue. I'm on rt-66u router. I have all extensions disabled in chrome. When i do wifi speed test i pull really good speeds 70Mbps on N card so speed is NOT the issue but rather latency of browsing. Not sure what is causing that but i really wanna move onto new code but with 5-10 seconds delay it's simply not doable. I have already disabled hardware acceleration in chrome as it was even slower. It almost seems like there is some major issue with new code. I don't know but this is major for me.
Any thoughts on this Merlin, John, guys?
Maybe I did not get the technology right, but thought that this would/should be beneficiary when using multiple devices connected to the 5 GHz band - meaning the all connected devices dont need to wait for their data stream to wait - but its distributed in paralell - sorry for my simplistic description. I just tried to switch the button and hooked up all my HW: ipad retina, ipad air 2, iphone 5s, sony z1 compact - all on 5GHz band and running speedtest - when I get home I will recreate the scenario when MU-MIMO turned off - or this should have no effect. By the way the 2,4 band was working fine on both ipads - so I did not experience the issues described by others - maybe luck or due to short time of testing and running the new FWI see it but not turning it on since it requires a MU-MIMO device to leverage it. So far I don't have any.
if you dont want to restore to default then stay on older firmware, theres not much help we can give, period.Can someone help newbie here and Wifi Mac address all messed up. No idea how to use nvram and what it does etc. I dont wnat to restore to factory and start from scratch
Any help really appreciated. I delete Mac address and they are not deleted . I reverted back to 378.56_2 but no change now ?
Maybe I did not get the technology right, but thought that this would/should be beneficiary when using multiple devices connected to the 5 GHz band - meaning the all connected devices dont need to wait for their data stream to wait - but its distributed in paralell - sorry for my simplistic description. I just tried to switch the button and hooked up all my HW: ipad retina, ipad air 2, iphone 5s, sony z1 compact - all on 5GHz band and running speedtest - when I get home I will recreate the scenario when MU-MIMO turned off - or this should have no effect. By the way the 2,4 band was working fine on both ipads - so I did not experience the issues described by others - maybe luck or due to short time of testing and running the new FW
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Of course, to get the maximum benefit of this revolutionary new feature, you must have MU-MIMO on both the network and the device
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