RT-AC68U from A2 to E1 - restoring config and trouble

[plex]

Hi

Recently I've got the chance, to "upgrade" my old A2 revision to the newer E1 with higher clock speed. Both routers are on same merlin version, so I just made a backup of config, and restored on new router.

So far no problem, however today the GUI didn't respond. After a power cycle GUI was back, and then I decided the view the traffic monitor. Only realtime is working - all others are blank.

Could it be related to my fast swap, doing a config restore from another unit?

 

[ColinTaylor]

It's a very bad idea to load the config from one router to another even if they are exactly the same model. The config contains hardware specific settings like MAC addresses, CPU/RAM speeds, wireless chipset values, etc.

Given that the A2 and E1 models don't even have the same processor I'm surprised it works at all.

 

[plex]

It's a very bad idea to load the config from one router to another even if they are exactly the same model. The config contains hardware specific settings like MAC addresses, CPU/RAM speeds, wireless chipset values, etc.

Given that the A2 and E1 models don't even have the same processor I'm surprised it works at all.

Hi

Thanks for clearing this out - I should have told myself, that it wouldn't be a good idea.

After starting from scratch GUI is much faster, and the traffic monitor is back

Thanks for help