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

[mightyoakbob]

Thanks for that.
Bob.

 

[Wisiwyg]

The best match for your requirements and pre-requisites is the RT-AC68U.

Anything newer than that will not be supported by this LTS fork.

Second that... have had 2 AC68U's: Main and AP, running now for several years. Dancing with the thought of an AC86U for faster VPN throughput, but it can't really beat the AC68U's for anything else. Love the 68U's with John's firmware.

 

[mightyoakbob]

Second that... have had 2 AC68U's: Main and AP, running now for several years. Dancing with the thought of an AC86U for faster VPN throughput, but it can't really beat the AC68U's for anything else. Love the 68U's with John's firmware.

Good to hear thanks. Think I could get 5 or 6 years out if one?
Bob.

 

[L&LD]

Good to hear thanks. Think I could get 5 or 6 years out if one?
Bob.

The RT-AC68U a 2013 product. We've already had 6 great years from it!

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wir...1900-first-look-netgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u

That doesn't mean it doesn't have at least 5 more still in it.

For me, that would depend on having new firmware regularly (for security fixes) and john9527's LTS RMerlin fork is handling that great.

It would also depend on your ISP speeds too. If less than about 200Mbps up/down (at the very highest), then the RT-AC68U should be able to handle that too.

What may negate the above 'show stoppers' is if all of a sudden I had all 'AX' clients or their future counterpart. That doesn't mean that they won't work with the RT-AC68U though (they must be compatible to be allowed to be sold), it is just that they won't be able to hit the maximums that the future 'AX' clients will be advertising at that time.

If you are flexible on not using john9527's fork and can be willing to learn RMerlin's current release, the RT-AC86U is the router I would be recommending to you. At this point, without knowing the future, the RT-AC86U would be my best bet for the long-term. Not only for the expected support over the next 5 or 6 years, but also for the greatly enhanced performance and features it offers too.

 

[mightyoakbob]

The RT-AC68U a 2013 product. We've already had 6 great years from it!

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wir...1900-first-look-netgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u

That doesn't mean it doesn't have at least 5 more still in it.

For me, that would depend on having new firmware regularly (for security fixes) and john9527's LTS RMerlin fork is handling that great.

It would also depend on your ISP speeds too. If less than about 200Mbps up/down (at the very highest), then the RT-AC68U should be able to handle that too.

What may negate the above 'show stoppers' is if all of a sudden I had all 'AX' clients or their future counterpart. That doesn't mean that they won't work with the RT-AC68U though (they must be compatible to be allowed to be sold), it is just that they won't be able to hit the maximums that the future 'AX' clients will be advertising at that time.

If you are flexible on not using john9527's fork and can be willing to learn RMerlin's current release, the RT-AC86U is the router I would be recommending to you. At this point, without knowing the future, the RT-AC86U would be my best bet for the long-term. Not only for the expected support over the next 5 or 6 years, but also for the greatly enhanced performance and features it offers too.

Wow thank you for that, much appreciated.
On the 86U can you pull and push the DHCP reservations and the two Mac filter lists via the USB data stitck and smb share as with the n66u?
Bob.

 

[L&LD]

Wow thank you for that, much appreciated.
On the 86U can you pull and push the DHCP reservations and the two Mac filter lists via the USB data stitck and smb share as with the n66u?
Bob.

You're welcome! Like to help where I can.

I'm stumped by your second sentence though. Can you show screenshots or try to explain it differently? Thanks.

 

[JWoo]

I have an RT-AC68U and a 200 MB/s connection and this router has enough CPU to handle it, no problem. When direct wired or on a 5 GHz connection, I can get my whole 230 MB/s. CPU jumps when running SpeedTest to about 50% load but during normal Internet activity runs 2% - 10% CPU. If I were buying an AC class router, I would probably get a refurb Asus RT-AC1900P model on Amazon for 88 bucks (it is the same as the RT-AC68U except with a much faster 1.4 Ghz CPU). Most AC class routers cannot do more than 1300 MB/s on a single 5 Ghz band anyway or your devices cannot so going nuts on an AC class router is really a waste of money. It is probably not worth getting any more router than the Asus RT-AC1900P until the WIFI 6 (AX class) routers begin to drop in price.

 

[mightyoakbob]

You're welcome! Like to help where I can.

I'm stumped by your second sentence though. Can you show screenshots or try to explain it differently? Thanks.

Okay. I have a USB memory stick connected to my router. I use this to be able to read and write the DHCP reservations file and the MAC address filters for both wireless bands. This memory device is then smb shared across my network so these files can be copied and edited.

Hope that is clearer. Sorry to cause confusion.

Bob.

 

[mightyoakbob]

I have an RT-AC68U and a 200 MB/s connection and this router has enough CPU to handle it, no problem. When direct wired or on a 5 GHz connection, I can get my whole 230 MB/s. CPU jumps when running SpeedTest to about 50% load but during normal Internet activity runs 2% - 10% CPU. If I were buying an AC class router, I would probably get a refurb Asus RT-AC1900P model on Amazon for 88 bucks (it is the same as the RT-AC68U except with a much faster 1.4 Ghz CPU). Most AC class routers cannot do more than 1300 MB/s on a single 5 Ghz band anyway or your devices cannot so going nuts on an AC class router is really a waste of money. It is probably not worth getting any more router than the Asus RT-AC1900P until the WIFI 6 (AX class) routers begin to drop in price.

That is very interesting, I can see I need to do more reading and thinking.
Thanks very much.
Bob.

 

[L&LD]

Okay. I have a USB memory stick connected to my router. I use this to be able to read and write the DHCP reservations file and the MAC address filters for both wireless bands. This memory device is then smb shared across my network so these files can be copied and edited.

Hope that is clearer. Sorry to cause confusion.

Bob.

Any current RMerlin router should have you covered for the above.

 

[routeitall]

Installed john9527's 374.43_2 on an RT-N66U
It is up and running, and just getting familiar with it and looking through the GUI pages
maybe it just me, but can not find anywhere the option to enable remote WAN or SSH access
this useful feature was in asuswrt-merlin, and like to check from work the system status at home
any suggestion
thanks

Those features should work exactly the same way. I just confirmed they do on the same router and firmware fork.

https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1000926/
This page helped me find both settings.

 

[dave14305]

Installed john9527's 374.43_2 on an RT-N66U
It is up and running, and just getting familiar with it and looking through the GUI pages
maybe it just me, but can not find anywhere the option to enable remote WAN or SSH access
this useful feature was in asuswrt-merlin, and like to check from work the system status at home
any suggestion
thanks

They are there under Administration / System tab. But the better practice is to setup an OpenVPN server on the router and use an openvpn client to connect to your LAN remotely. Opening http or ssh to the WAN is asking for trouble eventually.

 

[john9527]

Next release has been posted to pick up a few new components/fixes. My time is still limited right now, so please be patient on new releases.

LATEST RELEASE: Update-39E1/39L1
5-April-2019
Merlin fork 374.43_39E1j9527
Download http://bit.ly/1YdgUcP
============================

Key Changes:

• Updated components CURL, NANO, DROPBEAR, DNSMASQ
• Updated CA bundle
• Fixes to Stubby server selection, Updated resolver csv
  These fixes should address problems selecting/properly activating some servers (symptom is wrong server shown as selected or no DNS access with some servers). If you have manually updated the resolver csv, you should pull a new copy via 'stubby-update-resolvers.sh'
  Thanks to @ColinTaylor for helping to debug.
• Provide filesystem type as second argument to pre-mount script (Merlin backport)
• Increase OpenVPN interface queue length (Merlin backport)

SHA256

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[L&LD]

Welcome back john9527!

Thank you for continuing to care for us, I was just thinking about how you were doing too.

 

[dave14305]

New update applied. Time to start the uptime streak again. No tinkering...no tinkering...no tinkering.

 

[L&LD]

New update applied. Time to start the uptime streak again. No tinkering...no tinkering...no tinkering.

And the voices over the other shoulder chanting 'tinker! tinker! tinker!'.

 

[JWoo]

I just wanted to shout out to @john9527 for his leadership on this project.

 

[L&LD]

I just wanted to shout out to @john9527 for his leadership on this project.

Yes, he definitely deserves it!

 

[Jasso]

How do I block web access on 39E1 with RT-N66U, used to be in Admin/System

 

[john9527]

How do I block web access on 39E1, used to be in Admin/System

Still there.....on the fork there are separate 'Allow' settings for SSH and Web (default is to not allow)