Asuswrt-Merlin 380.57 is now available

[maxbraketorque]

I have a 68U B1. Is there any reason for this firmware to slightly reduce wireless speeds on both bands?

 

[Alaska99]

When I disable Trafic Analyser on my AC68U the web interface completely freeze and is unaccesible but network still working

 

[snakebite3]

When I disable Trafic Analyser on my AC68U the web interface completely freeze and is unaccesible but network still working

did you factory reset like it said in the release notes?

 

[propergol]

AC66U in AP mode :
- 2.4GHz broken
- no "Preamble Type" option in 5GHz professional.

AC68U :
- 2.4GHz broken
- no "Preamble Type" option in 5GHz professional.
- one Ethernet port wont run above 100 Mbps Full Duplex while it should be 1000. But I must check if that's not a cable issue.

 

[RMerlin]

AC66U in AP mode :
- 2.4GHz broken
- no "Preamble Type" option in 5GHz professional.

This is not a bug, this is by design. Asus removes that field unless the router is based on Qualcomm or Ralink. I assume that's because Broadcom hardcodes it to Short on the 5 GHz band.

 

[RMerlin]

I suspect the RT-AC68U 2.4 GHz issues might be related to the region code, since the hardware revision does not matter.

 

[octopus]

This is not a bug, this is by design. Asus removes that field unless the router is based on Qualcomm or Ralink. I assume that's because Broadcom hardcodes it to Short on the 5 GHz band.

When i tested on RT-AC68U was it set to LONG Preamble and i set it to short on 5.0Ghz.

 

[Cake]

I just flashed to 380.57 (ac68U), and lost the 2.4Ghz wifi too, however I did not factory reset. Oops -I did now, Everything (devices on 2.4Ghz) so far seems to be working on default settings for me. (so far)

Thank you RMerlin for your work.

 

[propergol]

This is not a bug, this is by design. Asus removes that field unless the router is based on Qualcomm or Ralink. I assume that's because Broadcom hardcodes it to Short on the 5 GHz band.

Thanks a lot for this clarification.
Regarding the 2.4Ghz band, region issue looks very possible, since ASUS seems to think that USA and FCC thing apply to the rest of the world...

Regarding my issue with 1GB link only working @ 0.1GB : crappy "CAT7" Amazon cable was the culprit. Sorry for this false positive report.

 

[propergol]

I just flashed to 380.57 (ac68U), and lost the 2.4Ghz wifi too, however I did not factory reset. Oops -I did now, Everything (devices on 2.4Ghz) so far seems to be working on default settings for me. (so far)

Thank you RMerlin for your work.

I did
- factory reset, hard reboot
- flashed 380.57
- factory reset, hard reboot

2.4Ghz is gone, devices look connected but without real IP I think or something like that.

 

[Schuby]

Anyone else getting a 'Firmware Upgrade Unsuccessful' error on an 87R? I'm on 378.56 currently and tried re-downloading 380.57 several times with no luck. Also tried wireless and wired as well.

Edit: Reboot fixed it. Everything works A-OK! Thanks!

 

[GG7]

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I did
- factory reset, hard reboot
- flashed 380.57
- factory reset, hard reboot

2.4Ghz is gone, devices look connected but without real IP I think or something like that.

More than likely, if you check your 2.4 GHz devices on your Network Map/Clients, you will see that all of their TX Rates are reporting a value of "1" at all times. This goes hand in hand with there being a total lack of internet connectivity on the 2.4 Band, even though "most" devices are able to connect to the router and will display themselves in the 2.4 GHz client list.

I noticed this line in the ASUS 1031 fix list pertaining to the 2.4 band:

"- Fixed wireless channel issue when set 2.4G channel in 12 or 13 (only for EU region)"

Since this was the only change listed for the 2.4 band, even though this was supposed to only effect the EU region hardware and refers to specific channels, I wonder if this still has something to do with the problem? Besides the change of SDK and drivers?

 

[Cake]

I did
- factory reset, hard reboot
- flashed 380.57
- factory reset, hard reboot

2.4Ghz is gone, devices look connected but without real IP I think or something like that.

I had that too, a exclamation point next to the wifi connected icon on Android devices, I couldn't get anymore info from the mobile devices.
Just a few minutes ago I noticed If I turn on 'protected management frames in the wifi settings I can get some devices to stop connecting but not all of them. Default is off, so I am leaving it off.

I wonder if there is different hardware in some ac68u's sold.

 

[Cake]

Advanced Settings-->LAN--->NAT Acceleration, when I set it to off it breaks the wifi. One device out of three I am testing is very slow to connect, the other 2 fail to connect. I set it to off, hit apply and wait for settings, also I rebooted in the shell just to be sure, and toggled between Auto and Off just to be sure.
Incidentally I also have the last 6 settings in the Wireless-->Professional tab set to off.
I also toggled the nat loopback setting between merlin and Asus.

 

[Pos22]

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?

 

[zaxcom]

I run a PAP2T adapter for VOIP. Since upgrading to this version I could not get the adapter to register with the SIP server. I went in the ALG settings and enabled the pass thru for SIP and the adapter came back on line. But this is in complete opposition to how SIP worked before, and how every tutorial says you should set the ALG. They all say to switch it to off.

As a test I downgraded back to 378.56-2 and my SIP worked correctly with the ALG disabled. I then went back up to 380.57 and once again SIP failed with the ALG turned off.

So not sure what changed but for now I am keeping the SIP to enabled in order to keep my phones on line.


RT-AC66U

 

[martinr]

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I noticed this line in the ASUS 1031 fix list pertaining to the 2.4 band:

"- Fixed wireless channel issue when set 2.4G channel in 12 or 13 (only for EU region)"

Since this was the only change listed for the 2.4 band, even though this was supposed to only effect the EU region hardware and refers to specific channels, I wonder if this still has something to do with the problem? . ?

So those experiencing problems with 2.4GHz should specify which channel they're on and whether the problem exists on all other channels.

 

[njespo]

thanks Merlin and i send good thoughts your way and hope all works out well for you regarding personal issue

 

[doeboy]

Has any flashed this with the AC5300 and if so, how's this working?

 

[Khanh Tran]

Merry Christmas to everyone.

- Flashed my 68U HW ver. B1 to 380.57
- Pushed Reset button for 30 secs and released
Both 2.4 and 5.0 seem to work fine except when I do MAC and IP Address binding for a connecting client device, the router disconnect ALL connecting clients. Just wonder if it is an expecting router behavior.