[Fork] Asuswrt-Merlin 374.43 LTS releases (Archive)

[john9527]

It would've made sense and I wouldn't have posted here if I had reached the port change notification screen. When I set the https port to 52792 and hit apply, that screen was not displayed in this case, with just the loading being displayed and not going anywhere for a long time until I manually refreshed the screen.
Also, afterward when I rebooted it, the port was back to 8443 again. Tried a second time with the exact same behavior which is when I decided to report.

Sorry....can't recreate it. Works fine on both my AC68 and N66 tested with IE and Firefox (even used your port number). It even refreshed correctly to the new port number, which quite frankly I didn't remember.
Since you were having cert problems in the watchdog, I'd regen the cert and also try with browser extensions disabled.

EDIT: I continued to switch ports a couple more times, and it did hang on the spinner once. But I just closed the browser, then logged back in with the new port successfully.

 

[RocketJSquirrel]

I got constant WiFi drops on both bands using 22E4 on my AC68U. Rebooting didn't help. I reverted to 19E3, my previous version, and WiFi is stable again.

I've been using the John Fork pretty much since it was first released, and this is the first time this has happened to me. My understanding is that the WiFi driver is Asus stock and not modified by John. Right?

Any advice? Do I need to do a factory reset to get 22E4 to work for me?

 

[john9527]

I got constant WiFi drops on both bands using 22E4 on my AC68U. Rebooting didn't help. I reverted to 19E3, my previous version, and WiFi is stable again.

Guaranteed absolutely no change to wireless in any of the fork releases......don't know what to tell you except that maybe there is a new intermittent noise source/new wireless at a neighbor that is interfering.

 

[punchsuckr]

Sorry....can't recreate it. Works fine on both my AC68 and N66 tested with IE and Firefox (even used your port number). It even refreshed correctly to the new port number, which quite frankly I didn't remember.
Since you were having cert problems in the watchdog, I'd regen the cert and also try with browser extensions disabled.

EDIT: I continued to switch ports a couple more times, and it did hang on the spinner once. But I just closed the browser, then logged back in with the new port successfully.

Regenerated the ssl cert and it began working properly. Thanks again John.

 

[Gravityz]

maybee change some wifi settings (turn 2.4 and 5 off and on again, change channels, bandwidth etc)
i have someting similar were wifi channels (which were at 149+155) suddenly have changed to 34 while the settings were still at 149+155

changing things will help resetting settings to their current value
Agreed this should not be necessary but then again it does not hurt to try and might solve problems

Guaranteed absolutely no change to wireless in any of the fork releases......don't know what to tell you except that maybe there is a new intermittent noise source/new wireless at a neighbor that is interfering.

 

[kricker]

I just wanted to say tank you for these releases. I've been using them for years now and love them. Thank you, Thank you.

I have a minor issue. I just tried updating to 22e4 from 17e8, but it didn't take. The firmware uploaded fine, but when the router restarts, I still see it is using 17e8.

(fixed typo)

 

[john9527]

I just wanted to say tank you for these releases. I've been using them for years now and love them. Thank you, Thank you.

I have a minor issue. I just tried updating to 22e4 from 17e8, but it didn't take. The firmware uploaded fine, but when the router restarts, I still see it is using 22e4.

Assuming you made a typo (what you wrote says it updated)

If that's not the case, and you have USB drives connected....Power down the router, disconnect the USB drives, then power up and do the firmware update. Then reconnect the USB drives.

If you have an AC68 (you didn't say which router), there are some potential pitfalls regarding the CFE level. What does is say for the CFE/bootloader level on the tools page?

 

[kricker]

Oops your right. Typo.
I have an AC66R. No USB drives connected. I just updated to 20e9 without issues. I'll try 22e4 again now.

UPDATE:
I was able to update to 22e4 just fine now after first updating to 20e9.

 

[jrmwvu04]

Always the way.....as I said, I ultimately don't think that was the problem in your case, but I had already written the fix to cover that case, so left it included.

Well, whether it was because of those changes or moving what I used to have on a USB drive to /jffs I have had zero problems since I first opened my mouth about it. So... thumbs up.

 

[steve23094]

I have an Asus RT-AC66U running 374.43_2-22E4j9527.

I have selected channel 56/80Mhz in the 5Ghz band and it displays 56 in the interface. However my router is using channel 36/20Mhz. Anybody know what the problem might be?

EDIT: In fact changing to any channel has no effect at all.

 

[punchsuckr]

John, I was wondering is it normal for wireless access on other wifi devices to slow to a crawl if I am transferring files locally from lan to one wifi pc? Seem to have never noticed it earlier.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I have an Asus RT-AC66U running 374.43_2-22E4j9527.

I have selected channel 56/80Mhz in the 5Ghz band and it displays 56 in the interface. However my router is using channel 36/20Mhz. Anybody know what the problem might be?

EDIT: In fact changing to any channel has no effect at all.

Backup your current configuration and then do a factory reset followed by a minimal configuration. Then see if you can set the channels correctly. If that doesn't help you can restore your configuration to get back to your original setup.

Are there any messages in the syslog.

PS Have you made any non-standard wireless mods, like changing the country code?

 

[john9527]

John, I was wondering is it normal for wireless access on other wifi devices to slow to a crawl if I am transferring files locally from lan to one wifi pc? Seem to have never noticed it earlier.

Which band? Not usually to a crawl, unless the devices are using an older protocol (b/g). In that case, the older devices can get 'locked' out, and you need to select the 'b/g protection' option (But this will reduce the throughput of any 'n' devices).

In the bigger sense, the wifi bandwidth is shared however. So if everyone is connecting at 150Mbps for example, they all share that 150Mbps....each one doesn't get 150Mbps.

 

[john9527]

PS Have you made any non-standard wireless mods, like changing the country code?

@steve23094 - This is also the first thing that I thought of based on your symptom.

 

[punchsuckr]

Which band? Not usually to a crawl, unless the devices are using an older protocol (b/g). In that case, the older devices can get 'locked' out, and you need to select the 'b/g protection' option (But this will reduce the throughput of any 'n' devices).

In the bigger sense, the wifi bandwidth is shared however. So if everyone is connecting at 150Mbps for example, they all share that 150Mbps....each one doesn't get 150Mbps.

The laptops were at 2.4g at the time. The shared b/w would explain what I was noticing then.

Btw I finally got around to opening it up and putting the micro sd card in (h/w rev b1).. , works great but the network map page now only shows 1 hard drive (i have 2x 1tb connected), it shows the card in the second bubble. All three locations are available when I go to the router from other devices (all my mapped drives working fine).. I would just like to confirm with you that it would not have some unpleasant side effects down the line, like maybe some weird corruptions on the hard drives with it not expecting 3 drives and such.

Also, the ssl process not responding error has been resolved ever since I generated the ssl cert again.

EDIT: After a reboot the 2 hard drives showing up again in the bubbles on network map.

EDIT2: Also, just remembered the speed on the other laptop was something like 200-400kbps while a file transfer was going on on another both over lan.

 

[steve23094]

PS Have you made any non-standard wireless mods, like changing the country code?

Excellent diagnosis. No doubt you know what you're on about, hopefully you'll be able to help further.

The answer is 'yes'. I used the instructions here: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/cant-change-country-on-rt-n66u.15047/

Without doing so I couldn't select the higher channels which are legal in the UK. I live in an apartment block and the upper channels are free, but it's very congested on the default available channels so my 5Ghz band will only connect at 20Mhz. For me this is a non-starter, I need the higher link speeds because I regularly transfer large files around my network.

Do you know where I go from here? PM me if necessary.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Do you know where I go from here? PM me if necessary.

Regardless of your particular environment (I live in the UK as well) I suggest you reset those NVRAM variables back to their original values. Just because they worked on the N66U doesn't necessarily mean they'll work on the AC66U. You might find that you get the DFS channels without any "tweaks", I know Merlin's and John's firmware enabled the upper channels (for EU routers) on the N66U in recent builds (I don't know about the AC66U though).

 

[punchsuckr]

The laptops were at 2.4g at the time. The shared b/w would explain what I was noticing then.

Btw I finally got around to opening it up and putting the micro sd card in (h/w rev b1).. , works great but the network map page now only shows 1 hard drive (i have 2x 1tb connected), it shows the card in the second bubble. All three locations are available when I go to the router from other devices (all my mapped drives working fine).. I would just like to confirm with you that it would not have some unpleasant side effects down the line, like maybe some weird corruptions on the hard drives with it not expecting 3 drives and such.

Also, the ssl process not responding error has been resolved ever since I generated the ssl cert again.

EDIT: After a reboot the 2 hard drives showing up again in the bubbles on network map.

EDIT2: Also, just remembered the speed on the other laptop was something like 200-400kbps while a file transfer was going on on another both over lan.

@john9527 Sadly though, I can't get the traffic manager to load up the rstat file from the card. Reformatted to ext2 from the router as well but still just the same.
It is able to create the file if i enable the create or reset file option but when I open the traffic manager it states "no data in table".
What's more the timestamp of modification of the rstat file changes as expected when the traffic data should be written but traffic manager cannot load up any data from it. There is no error in the syslog as well.

 

[steve23094]

Regardless of your particular environment (I live in the UK as well) I suggest you reset those NVRAM variables back to their original values. Just because they worked on the N66U doesn't necessarily mean they'll work on the AC66U. You might find that you get the DFS channels without any "tweaks", I know Merlin's and John's firmware enabled the upper channels (for EU routers) on the N66U in recent builds (I don't know about the AC66U though).

I spent ages setting up everything else, so that's a pain. But I understand how important it is to eliminate other possibilities in fault finding so I'll do a full reset. Before I played around with the NVRAM variables the high channels weren't even available to me. Do you have access to them in your (UK) configuration? Where do I go from there if they're still not present?

 

[ColinTaylor]

I spent ages setting up everything else, so that's a pain. But I understand how important it is to eliminate other possibilities in fault finding so I'll do a full reset.

If you take a backup beforehand it's pretty quick to restore your previous setup. (Edit: you could also use John's NVRAM utility to transfer your settings.)

Before I played around with the NVRAM variables the high channels weren't even available to me.

How long ago was that? For the N66U something changed about a year ago.

Do you have access to them in your (UK) configuration? Where do I go from there if they're still not present?

Sorry I don't have an AC66U. I know @john9527 did a lot of work to enable DFS on the N66U, maybe he can take a look at the AC66U for you.