How many of those who finally have stable AC68s are going to the 87?

[Boorock70]

ASUS: Losing the Reputation..!

ASUS is simply losing it's reputation nowadays.

As a 3 days old RT-AC68U owner, I'm highly disappointed.
The official firmwares are shirt, better to be called bugware not firmware !

I think ASUS shifted the slope of extinction.
We are not lab monkeys, we are not beta-testers...
We even paid hundreds of dollars for those half-baked shirt, and what do we got ?

So called super-duper routers need to be rebooted periodically in order to work.
If there were NO Merlin or this forum, what would you do ?
This is what they are thinking... take their money & voila: bye-bye customers !

Thanks to Merlin but I really can't understand something.
How can a man, one man can repair, correct a bugware of a so called global computer leader which has teams of people for this routers ?

If he can do this alone, by himself what are those "skilled people" doing for that global leader firm of computers ?
Pls do help me to understand this situation..!

Unfortunately, as RT-AC68U users we still have some serious problems to be corrected but the bugwares keep on coming... and they manufacture "new shirt" with more problems ?

Thanks but No thanks... enough of ASUS !
(and yes, TP-Link error rates are lower than this shirtty RT-AC68U,. I know because I own one)

ASUS is going DOWN !
Sorry, we didn't pay for excuses, we paid for those super-duper but non-working features.... and now, it's your turn to pay in return !
(Unless they correct everything; lightning-fast! I will share, post all my experiences with this shirt... I have to, cause I paid $215 for the BS)

for additional HDD and that Download Master shirts follow the links below
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=18494
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=18130

 

[hggomes]

I never used stock FW and if it's like reported then you are completly right about it, but let me ask you now, why not use RMerlin FW then?

 

[LoneWolf]

Routers are like software.

Don't trust the .0 release. Or in the case of routers, don't trust one until the vendor has had six months to generate good firmware, and then read the reports of the community that decided to beta-test for you.

I love the interface and features of my RT-AC66R. However, since I have purchased it, WiFi range has actually decreased with time. Throughput is still fine within range, but I'm in a very modest-sized house. The router used to be in the basement and I could get good signal strength in the detached garage through a floor, a wall, and 80 feet of back yard.

Now, I've had to move it upstairs, and our bedroom, which is at very most forty feet feet from the router, has poor signal strength for both my wife's and my cell phones. Laptops are okay, but we both have dual-band wifi on very recent smartphones, so it's pretty disappointing.

Buying a router within a month of release, with all the pressure for ASUS (or any other vendor for that matter) to get a new product to market is just asking for even more disappointment. As much as I want better beamforming, and multi-client performance improvements over wireless, I'm going to wait a generation for bugs and standards to shake out; AC is far from totally done and already we've got MU-MIMO *and* XStream on our plates.

 

[IAAI]

ASUS is simply losing it's reputation nowadays.

As a 3 days old RT-AC68U owner, I'm highly disappointed.
The official firmwares are shirt, better to be called bugware not firmware !

I think ASUS shifted the slope of extinction.
We are not lab monkeys, we are not beta-testers...
We even paid hundreds of dollars for those half-baked shirt, and what do we got ?

So called super-duper routers need to be rebooted periodically in order to work.
If there were NO Merlin or this forum, what would you do ?
This is what they are thinking... take their money & voila: bye-bye customers !

Thanks to Merlin but I really can't understand something.
How can a man, one man can repair, correct a bugware of a so called global computer leader which has teams of people for this routers ?

If he can do this alone, by himself what are those "skilled people" doing for that global leader firm of computers ?
Pls do help me to understand this situation..!

Unfortunately, as RT-AC68U users we still have some serious problems to be corrected but the bugwares keep on coming... and they manufacture "new shirt" with more problems ?

Thanks but No thanks... enough of ASUS !
(and yes, TP-Link error rates are lower than this shirtty RT-AC68U,. I know because I own one)

ASUS is going DOWN !
Sorry, we didn't pay for excuses, we paid for those super-duper but non-working features.... and now, it's your turn to pay in return !
(Unless they correct everything; lightning-fast! I will share, post all my experiences with this shirt... I have to, cause I paid $215 for the BS)

for additional HDD and that Download Master shirts follow the links below
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=18494
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=18130

that's exactly was i wanted to say in my thread while testing ac87

 

[bodean]

There is little point in upgrading from a one year old RT-AC68U to an RT-AC87U right now. As pointed out, there are no clients available yet to take advantage of the 4x4 radio.

Right now (which means July 23rd 2014), the only real benefits of the AC87U over AC68U are:

* 25% faster CPU (useful for VPN users, people who cannot use HW acceleration with an Internet connection faster than 200-300 Mbps)
* Better QoS, new network security features (which might or might not trickle down to the AC68U)
* Slightly faster SMB speed (in good part due to the faster CPU)


This is a nice upgrade for an N66 or AC66 user. Potentially interesting for an AC56 owner. But not worth the price for an AC68U.

Basically, that means you would have spent around 500$ on routers within the last 12 months.

What are the benefits upgrading to this from say what I have now, Ac66u?

 

[LoneWolf]

Okay. Someone grill up a heaping plate of crow, because I'm about to eat it.

After finding out that OpenVPN was seriously taxing my RT-AC66R, I had to think about this some more. After looking at the 68 and the 87, I grabbed an 87R for testing purposes.

I have a 15 day window to find out how it performs under existing firmware; if I find it unstable, back it goes. I'll provide some updates; note if I had the dual-core AC68, I wouldn't have bit, but as the AC66 is single core and lower-clocked....you get the idea. I also didn't care for the upright mount of the 68 and liked the radios having dedicated processors on the 87.

 

[curtc]

ASUS is simply losing it's reputation nowadays.

As a 3 days old RT-AC68U owner, I'm highly disappointed.

You got that right. My RT-N16 running the latest merlin firmware stops routing every couple of months, requiring cold boot. My RT-AC66R only makes it a couple of weeks before either 2.4 or 5ghz drops out and stops routing, requiring a cold boot.

I'm sick of this crap. The rt-n16 is 4 hours away, set up on IP controlled power strip with auto-ping scripts to power cycle it and now still not recovering.

I'm thinking of going with ubiquiti edgerouters...

 

[theveterans]

If consumer hardware and software is too buggy for you, I'd say move to enterprise VPN routers such as Ubiquiti or Microtik. While you're at it, get some gigaport switches and enterprise AP from Ubiquiti or Aruba Networks.

I switched from ASUS RT-AC66U to WRT1900AC due to performance issues after 10 days of uptime where a reboot is needed to get my throughput back. My WRT1900AC, while having features as few as an extremely basic router, is rock stable and never slows down and never needed to reboot due to performance issues.

 

[curtc]

Just following up on my results w/dumping these 'consumer' grade junk boxes. I powered down my asus in August and brought up a Ubiquiti edgerouter lite, and two unifi APs in it's place. Wow, what a difference. Everything has been rock solid, uptime is currently at 3 months, 1 week, 4 days without so much as a _blip_, and I'm actively using them on average 10 hours a day m-f, and 4-5 on the weekends. Like the good old days of linksys blue routers with dd-wrt.

Granted, my requirements are more than average, given I work from home, VPN, VoIP etc., but if you want stability, I can certainly recommend checking out the ubiquiti stuff.

Now if I could just get my T-1 to be this reliable...