Hello,
I have been following this thread for
more than a week and I decided to register on this forum in order to provide a feedback other than TrebleTA's, since he seems to be the only person testing betas, and also there are two cases, one where GNUton's LED is working and one where TrebleTA's isn't also with memory leak.
This is to provide my feedback based on the Beta 2 release.
I have a DSL-AX82U router, I have never modded it before and this is the first time I do such thing.
The below is my input on the Beta 2 build:
- LED works fine even
after reboot, and after doing
any type of configuration, customizable from both the WebUI and the mobile app (even the management LED from the app works fine)
-
There is no memory leak, I have been waiting for more than 12 hours now and my memory doesn't go below 143/144MB. (
WIP please wait for my final result, seems like it dropped to 138MB now)
- DoH (DNS over HTTPS)
is not there (this is the main reason I wanted to switch to Merlin)
- /TrafficAnalyzer_Statistic.asp page is not entirely broken but have some small HTML/CSS bugs like "cursor hover over button" and "colors" doesn't match the main page from the official build.
- /AdaptiveQoS_InternetSpeed.asp internet speed result doesn't finish and gives an error with no result on the available test servers (also with the auto option)
- /AiProtection_HomeProtection.asp enabling AiProtection doesn't show a privacy agreement before enabling the option. (this happens on the original build)
DoH is not in the LAN menu or in the DSL menu, there only seem to be DoT (DNS over TLS) am I missing something?
Below are the differences between the original firmware (a) and the Merlin firmware (b)
A
View attachment 42608
B
View attachment 42609
Why:
1- installed server certificate in B is different from A (i prefer A's configuration
2- Acccess Type in the "Access restriction list" is only showing "Web UI" & "SSH"... what about Telnet and "(LAN only)" from Image A?
Overall I did not find any advantages of project Merlin over the original firmware (according to my needs), mainly i wanted to switch because of the DoH feature but it seems that it is not there.
Please let me know if you want me to check something before I revert back to original state.
I will reset in two days from now.
(Sorry for the font size, color and bold, i can't seem to be able to fix it after adding the images)
Best regards.