Rebooting and stability?

[htismaqe]

I guess when I said "ideal" I meant that it would be nice to be able to enable features that Asus advertises as differentiators for their brand and not have them crash the router. That's all.

 

[Val D.]

I guess when I said "ideal" I meant that it would be nice to be able to enable features that Asus advertises

This feature at least works... somehow. Companies advertise MU-MIMO for years on products not actually supporting it. It’s called marketing, or false advertising if you wish. It’s a business and your money is more important than your satisfaction. Most customers have basic knowledge only and will never notice something obvious not working.

 

[htismaqe]

This feature at least works... somehow. Companies advertise MU-MIMO for years on products not actually supporting it. It’s called marketing, or false advertising if you wish. It’s a business and your money is more important than your satisfaction. Most customers have basic knowledge only and will never notice something obvious not working.

Oh that's definitely true. That's why I left the "stock" firmware world for DD-WRT for several years. Unfortunately, it has gotten worse as well.

 

[RMerlin]

Oh that's definitely true. That's why I left the "stock" firmware world for DD-WRT for several years. Unfortunately, it has gotten worse as well.

Considering that DD-WRT has no formal QA process, and no development plan (i.e. there has been no formal releases but only test builds for the past 6-10 years now), it would be the last thing I would go to if I needed stability or reliability. Each DD-WRT image is about tossing a coin on whether or not it will be stable.

OpenWRT would be my personal choice if I had compatible hardware. They have an established development cycle, with actual releases that were properly tested and debugged.

 

[htismaqe]

Considering that DD-WRT has no formal QA process, and no development plan (i.e. there has been no formal releases but only test builds for the past 6-10 years now), it would be the last thing I would go to if I needed stability or reliability. Each DD-WRT image is about tossing a coin on whether or not it will be stable.

OpenWRT would be my personal choice if I had compatible hardware. They have an established development cycle, with actual releases that were properly tested and debugged.

One word: Kong.

Kong was building and extensively testing his own builds for hardware he actually owned. And he actually owned the models I owned (first the Linksys WRT1900AC and then the Netgear R7800). My experiences with both stock firmwares (and their support) were so bad, I really had no choice. This issue is that when Kong got a new router, he stopped developing for the older ones eventually, so one was left with buying whatever he bought, even if it wasn't ideally what you wanted. Finally, he got so fed up with the DD-WRT "process" that he moved permanently to OpenWRT. Yes, OpenWRT is better organized than DD-WRT but it's still not tightly coupled with the hardware because there's so much closed-source stuff built in nowadays. I got a bad taste for OpenWRT with the WRT1900AC and Marvell not providing adequate wireless drivers.

I probably should have given Asus a fairer shake back in the day but I was pretty sold on Netgear hardware for a long time, even after the debacle with their support. It is what it is - live and learn.

 

[joe scian]

Your router is RT-AC5300 as per your signature. We are talking about RT-AC86U.

Sure just suggesting the issue with AIprotection is there on other routers as well. I must retract that issue is resolved with 384.14. Today after 24 hrs i noted that the used memory was at 77% and heading higher from its start point at 67%. I am turning off AIProtection and it will remain off permanently

 

[Val D.]

Just to report Traditional QoS is working in Asuswrt-Merlin 384.14. It doesn't use TrendMicro.
Good for users who don't want sharing data with TrendMicro and have up to about 400Mbps ISP line.

This is on a 300/20 cable, sfq queue discipline, set to 280/18 bandwidth. Constant "A" result.
Not much customization, common services <512KB on High, File Transfers >512KB on Low.

 

[htismaqe]

Not to sound like a newb (even though I am) but "traditional QoS"?

Ah, never mind, it's an option under the QoS tab.