I recently bought a RT-AC56U because it had good performance (on paper at least) and I could attach an external USB 3.0 drive to it and use it for streaming movies.
My laptop does not have an AC adapter (yet) or 5GHz support, so I am using the 802.11n on 2.4 GHz band and because it is so crowded around my house with neighbours' WiFi signals, I did not get much thoughput out of my 100Mbps internet fiberglass link. So I read about the Merlin firmware build for my router and did an install of the latest version: RT-AC56U_3.0.0.4_376.45_0 and (probably because I did a factory reset after the upgrade, undoing all the tinkering I did before ;-) the throughput went from 10Mbps to 40Mbps so I was happy. The only thing what did not work was the USB 3.0 drive, in the system log I saw messages like:
failed to mount at the first try
I had no problem with this drive on the original firmware so I reverted back to RT-AC56U_3.0.0.4_374_5656-g8d0a991 and the USB disk is mounted OK.
(I agree: with an error about "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems" which I did not notice before because it worked for me)
See the log in the attachment.
The good news (for me) is that the improvement in throughput is still here, but I am still convinced the Merlin firmware gives more nice options.
Of course I can convert my drive to NTFS (not sure if that will be working on the RT-AC56U) but because I have 1.5 TB to convert (or copy) I rather wait for a solution in the Merlin department.
Thanks for reading this far ;-)
My laptop does not have an AC adapter (yet) or 5GHz support, so I am using the 802.11n on 2.4 GHz band and because it is so crowded around my house with neighbours' WiFi signals, I did not get much thoughput out of my 100Mbps internet fiberglass link. So I read about the Merlin firmware build for my router and did an install of the latest version: RT-AC56U_3.0.0.4_376.45_0 and (probably because I did a factory reset after the upgrade, undoing all the tinkering I did before ;-) the throughput went from 10Mbps to 40Mbps so I was happy. The only thing what did not work was the USB 3.0 drive, in the system log I saw messages like:
failed to mount at the first try
I had no problem with this drive on the original firmware so I reverted back to RT-AC56U_3.0.0.4_374_5656-g8d0a991 and the USB disk is mounted OK.
(I agree: with an error about "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems" which I did not notice before because it worked for me)
See the log in the attachment.
The good news (for me) is that the improvement in throughput is still here, but I am still convinced the Merlin firmware gives more nice options.
Of course I can convert my drive to NTFS (not sure if that will be working on the RT-AC56U) but because I have 1.5 TB to convert (or copy) I rather wait for a solution in the Merlin department.
Thanks for reading this far ;-)
