GG7
Regular Contributor
Some people reported having issues with the 2.4 GHz band with this new SDK - if that's your case, the only solution at this time is to revert back to 378.56_2.
Congrats on the latest release RMerlin and happy holidays to you and everyone here on the forums!
I wanted to bring everyone up to date on the 2.4 GHz band bug I reported to you last week which prevents any device connected to the 2.4 band on my 68U rev. B1 from sending or receiving data over our internet connection. A few of our devices are unable to connect to the router at all using the 2.4 side, and those that are able to connect display a TX Rate of "1" and an RX Rate of "-" for the duration of that device's connection to the 2.4 GHz side of the 68U B1 as long as either the latest ASUS or your new release version of Merlin firmware is installed on the router. The 5 GHz band is totally unaffected with all devices connected to that band performing normally. Including any device that could not connect to the internet using the 2.4 GHz band.
I contacted ASUS about this problem immediately after a brand new replacement 68U from Amazon was found to demonstrate identical behavior upon the flashing of ASUS factory firmware version "380_1031" posted to the ASUS support site on 2015/12/11.
An ASUS support staff member contacted me via email this past Tuesday and asked me to email them a copy of my settings file that was associated with this issue. I sent them a copy of this settings file immediately and am now awaiting a report from their senior tech manager on the exact cause of the issue and when we can expect an update to whatever software component is found to be responsible for this issue. Since we had a change to both the SDK and the wireless drivers, it could take longer to track down the problem than is typical, but they now have everything they need to easily produce the problem any time they want.
I got the impression from the conversation that they were already aware of this issue, and appeared to be quite pleased when I informed them that my settings file could reproduce the 2.4 band failure on demand as long as 1031 and all associated software components were installed on the test router.
Lastly... I can only confirm this issue with the rev. B1 version of the 68U since this is the only model we have ever had access to. This is the 68U that comes with the 1000 Mhz CPU out of the box.
Cheers.
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