Hello to all forum members, first of all my warm thanks to the team behind the AsusWrt Merlin releases all this time.
Apologies if accidentally posted in wrong sub-group (I did check carefully).
I very recently purchased an Asus RT-AC86U router and almost immediately updated it to the latest AsusWrt Merlin
386.2.6 firmware; after factory resetting, I enabled it for my fibre-operator with minimal changes for my home use.
I disabled the Smart Wi-Fi Connect as it was
not working with some home cameras and smart-plugs, and thus created a typical dual Wi-Fi network at 2.4GHz and 5GHz respectively with
default settings (except SSID name and password, obviously).
However, I notice that some days after the last router reboot,
the 2.4GHz network ceases to exist (!) and only 5GHz continues to be detectable; I noticed this as my smart-plugs starting blinking. When trying to find it with my iPad, it is no longer there.
It
just happened again after 5 days and decided to register here, and post my problem. The router itself is thankfully accessible (including Asus own smartphone app) and before rebooting it to solve this, I wanted to post here and ask what kind of logs (and from where, and if sanitized) would make sense to provide and give an idea what is wrong...
The router does not seem to be under heavy traffic or use when this happens, and the number of devices is not so high to justify the 2.4GHz going down. Also, there is
no Guest network enabled
nor any AiMesh set up.
I worry that this will happen again when I won't have access to the router and thus no smart-plugs or home-cams working
Is there a way to totally reset the Wi-Fi settings to defaults, without resetting the whole router again?
N.B. Accesing the CLI and ran
service restart_wireless
did
not seem to have solved the issue, clients can't seem to connect to this 2.4GHz wi-fi (saw it in
this post).
On some other website there was a mention of running
/sbin/restart_wireless
but that did not yield results, earlier (not sure if it's even the proper way to do it, for this latest Wrt firmware).
P.S. In the Professional section I had
only lowered a little the TX power to "Good" and nothing else; would this be the culprit? Set it back to "Performance" default but that didn't help either.
P.S. Decided to perform a factory reset again (via UI) ; just set the basic router settings (vendor class, admin user, Wi-Fi details) but having trouble again with 2.4GHz. It doesn't seem detectable from devices. For the love of mine, I can't figure out what is wrong. A hard-reset would help?
Thank you again.