I've noticed something else which is disturbing. As long as I use the router strictly for traffic routing, it is rock solid.
As soon as I connect a USB HDD and use it as a sort of NAS, the router becomes unstable. What I can see is that when I stream data from the attached HDD to a media player, at some point, the router will reboot.
I can see this behaviour with both SMB and NFS access to the data, so my guess is that maybe there is an instability of the USB subsystem of the OS.
Of course, when this happens, the USB HDD is no longer detected properly, so it is not auto-mounted.
Not only it is annoying that the router reboots, but then I have to make a manual intervention so that I can access the data again, as explained in a previous defect report.
It looks like the solution to this problem, as long as there is no patch coming frm ASUS to fix it, is to use a true NAS. Which is a bummer and really dissapointing.
As soon as I connect a USB HDD and use it as a sort of NAS, the router becomes unstable. What I can see is that when I stream data from the attached HDD to a media player, at some point, the router will reboot.
I can see this behaviour with both SMB and NFS access to the data, so my guess is that maybe there is an instability of the USB subsystem of the OS.
Of course, when this happens, the USB HDD is no longer detected properly, so it is not auto-mounted.
Not only it is annoying that the router reboots, but then I have to make a manual intervention so that I can access the data again, as explained in a previous defect report.
It looks like the solution to this problem, as long as there is no patch coming frm ASUS to fix it, is to use a true NAS. Which is a bummer and really dissapointing.