Help with Merlin features

[Zak]

I've been having some issues with my AC66u since I bought it. I tried to use the new ASUS 354 firmware (from ASUS), but the problems didn't go away. Was looking for some assistance with the Merlin Firmware. I didn't find any clear answers to my issues on the main Merlin page.

I was wondering if any versions of the Merlin Firmware fix some of the issues I am having.

5Gz N problems --- I have to reboot my router at least once a day, sometimes more. The N band becomes slow and the signal strength drops to nothing. Sometimes the signal strength remains strong yet all traffic stops working. I am the only wireless N router in the area.

DNS issues --- Maybe I'm missing something, but I am unable to add DNS entries in the router. I can assign manual DHCP leases, but I can't seem to add a DNS entry (e.g. host name, IP address). My FIOS ActionTec router was able to do it (router I replaced).

Server reboots when manually adding a static DHCP entry --- This just confuses me completely. Not sure why the router completely resets by just adding a manual DHCP address, but it does. Takes all internet traffic off-line.

Very slow user interface --- Once you change the administration page to be HTTPS, the interface becomes sluggish. I also can't change it back to HTTP because it says port 80 is in use (/boggle)

Thanks to whomever is working on this firmware, I was hoping ASUS would be more pro-active with their top of the line router, but I've starting to become dissapointed in my purchase.

 

[RMerlin]

5Gz N problems --- I have to reboot my router at least once a day, sometimes more. The N band becomes slow and the signal strength drops to nothing. Sometimes the signal strength remains strong yet all traffic stops working. I am the only wireless N router in the area.

Try setting a static channel rather than leaving it on Auto, see if it helps.

DNS issues --- Maybe I'm missing something, but I am unable to add DNS entries in the router. I can assign manual DHCP leases, but I can't seem to add a DNS entry (e.g. host name, IP address). My FIOS ActionTec router was able to do it (router I replaced).

Asus's original FW doesn't allow specifying a hostname, but my firmware does - it's the first field when you create a new DHCP static entry.

Very slow user interface --- Once you change the administration page to be HTTPS, the interface becomes sluggish. I also can't change it back to HTTP because it says port 80 is in use (/boggle)

A 600 MHz MIPS CPU combined with a single-threaded web server and a lot of images on the webui makes https sluggish. This is simply a performance limitation of the router's hardware which has to encrypt everything before sending it to your browser, not much that can be done about it short of replacing the whole webui with something very bare.