RT-AX88U maxing out a core and regularly showing 60+ MB/s upload

[Paliv]

I have never seen the AiCloud services enabled on my routers. My AX88U Pro has always defaulted to disabled on ASUS stock firmware.

 

[Kingp1n]

I have never seen the AiCloud services enabled on my routers. My AX88U Pro has always defaulted to disabled on ASUS stock firmware.

Just confirmed this and my AiCloud is disabled. I believe Samba Share is enabled by default under USB application-->Servers Center but probably not related to this.

 

[jd24]

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Well got the omada installed. gatewat 192.168.1.1 (default was 192.168.0.1)

BUT whenever I try to adpot it in the omada cloud or through the controller in a docker container it wipes the router back to its defaults 192.168.0.1 and lose all connection!!
I am missing something big! It's a learning curve.

 

[SmallKiwi]

Of all the folks who have been impacted by this: are any of you using an SSD drive enclosure attached to the router? I was and it's the only newish device I can think of - but it didn't start right away either. Only other thing I am suspicious of is a family member's ancient laptop.

I've installed 3004.388.8_2 fresh and got diversion running again. So far no issues. Only change I've made was disconnecting the suspicious drive enclosures and using a sandisk usb stick instead. So far (~2 hours) so good. I'll wait to see if a problem arises once this laptop gets used again.

 

[Klosiak]

I have had internet connection issues for past two weeks and I was really mad on. Today I noted that my RT-AX86U with the latest Merlin FW, from time to time sends a huge amount of data to WAN (according to traffic monitor more than my HFC connection is capable to transmit) and when it is happening one CPU core is on 100% usage. During this "peaks" internet connection was lost and no internet at all. This was the cause of my problems with internet connection stability. I have downgraded firmware but it helped for 2 hours. Then I have found this thread and based on what was said here I have turned off AiCloud service, DDNS and changed my password. So far so good and my connection is stable and I do not see this WAN upload peaks in the traffic monitor.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Well got the omada installed. gatewat 192.168.1.1 (default was 192.168.0.1)

BUT whenever I try to adpot it in the omada cloud or through the controller in a docker container it wipes the router back to its defaults 192.168.0.1 and lose all connection!!
I am missing something big! It's a learning curve.

Can you continue this conversation in a different thread please rather than hijacking this one. Thanks.

 

[Kingp1n]

Of all the folks who have been impacted by this: are any of you using an SSD drive enclosure attached to the router? I was and it's the only newish device I can think of - but it didn't start right away either. Only other thing I am suspicious of is a family member's ancient laptop.

I've installed 3004.388.8_2 fresh and got diversion running again. So far no issues. Only change I've made was disconnecting the suspicious drive enclosures and using a sandisk usb stick instead. So far (~2 hours) so good. I'll wait to see if a problem arises once this laptop gets used again.

I doubt the ssd would be the culprit specially if it was formatted prior to use. I would lean more to the laptop/device not having latest security updates and/or the router itself having AiCloud enabled by default or forced by the malware.