Merlin hangs on AC68

[skymoose]

Did a search but didn't really find a definitive answer...

Have a new AC68, installed the lastest Merlin firmware and am having hanging problems saving settings. Saving most setting aren't a problem, get the save segmented circle thing and it comes back. I assigned an IP to a printer, went to save and got the normal window but it never came back, just stayed in the saving mode. At that point, I did a power cycle and got the window saying it would reconnect (never did that) and to log back in through wireless. It's in that mode now, I'm on another router now. Also sometimes I get the saving segmented circle with a yellow triangle on the right and I think it came back after saving but not sure. Basically this hanging thing clubbers the router, frustrating.

What is going on? This hasn't been a smooth transition to a new router. I'm used to changing settings and saving them with no hassle. Make your changes, save and exit!

Should I be using the latest firmware? This just doesn't have a confident solid feel to it, feels a little flaky, maybe "very" is a better word. I was running Tomato on an old Linksys, it was solid as a rock but didn't have near the potential of this one.

I want to run the international scripts so I can crank up the transmit power.

Has someone done a tutorial on running script/code on the Asus routers?

Thanks in advance, I hope I explained things so you can understand what I mean. --John

 

[RogueSpear]

I have a relatively new AC68 and a week old AC87 and both of them are buggy / unstable on the latest .47 release. Ironically, the most solid unit I have a years old AC66. It took me nearly two days to discover I was running head first into a known Asus bug with hardwired Sonos speakers. Thought I was in the clear after that only find that a brand new Netgear GS108T switch I bought is seemingly incompatible with Asus routers :/ That one I don't think will get fixed as Netgear sees fit to hardcode VLAN IDs 1 and 2. Considering they can't even fix a year old bug that prevents the switch from DHCPing on anything other than 192.168.0.0/24 I'm not holding my breath.

Beyond that it seems like my OpenVPN server configuration inevitably brings the router down after some period of time. I still don't know if it's a memory leak or something else, but I'll probably have to experiment with a different sort of set up.

It's pretty amazing what you can theoretically do with these routers, but at the same time it seems like turning everything on isn't such a great idea.

 

[ronny]

Did you do a full reset of the router after installing Merlins firmware?

 

[skymoose]

No, actually I didn't, what's is the sequence? I guess you have to do I full reset after updating the firmware?

Are some of the Merlin versions better for achieving different things? I really want to crank up the transmitter/transceiver power.

I was used to Tomato on the old Linksys, just update it and move on.

I guess I'm getting the feeling that these things are a little buggy? True or not.

--John