RT-N66 with Tomato - 5.0 GHz issues

[Maynard65]

First off... Noob here and I will explain my problem to the best of MY ability which isn't anything to brag about.

Currently located in Panama, where internet speeds are "tough". I have a dish and signed up for 4 Mbps...

Prior to this trip, I purchased a Asus RT-N66U router for my use while in this country. I hired someone to put the tomato firmware on it. I signed up for Unlocator services so I could watch U.S TV while here. I updated the router to the proper DNS numbers.

Arrived in Panama, hooked it all up... internet use sucked. I was on the 2.4 GHz band where I was lucky if I saw 2 Mbps. I changed to the 5.0 band and wow, what a difference... download speeds were actually a little above 4 Mbps. This 5.0 supply suited my needs perfectly.

Speaking of needs, my wife and I both have laptops, I have an IPAD and I have a ASUS Chromebox. We also have cell phones.

My wife's laptop does not support 5.0 so her's doesn't matter. The Chromebox and the IPAD are both connected to 5.0 and have had no issues, they work great.

My laptop... an ASUS with an Intel Dual Band wireless AC-3160 network adapter. Initially, my laptop connected to the 5.0. In the last week it has stopped showing up on the list of available connection points. Periodically it does show up as an option, I try to connect to it but no go....it doesn't connect and then it disappears.

When I reboot the laptop or the router, it shows but then disappears...

I can't figure out why the IPAD and the chromebox have no issues but my laptop does.... any suggestions?

 

[Nullity]

View the logs on the RT-N66U and the laptop and see what it tells you.

 

[Maynard65]

View the logs on the RT-N66U and the laptop and see what it tells you.

I'll do that if you can help me understand HOW to do that.... remember, I'm a noob at this

 

[Maynard65]

I found the "log" f0r the router... the 5GHz options just showed up on my list for the laptop. I tried to connect... gave me a message that "unable to connect".... bla bla.

This is what I saw in the log for this attempt

Dec 11 22:08:52 unknown daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2099]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.41 a0:88:69:b5:0a:c7
Dec 11 22:08:52 unknown daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2099]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.41 a0:88:69:b5:0a:c7 Maynards

 

[Nullity]

I'll do that if you can help me understand HOW to do that.... remember, I'm a noob at this

I'd Google how to view the wireless or network logs of whatever operating system your laptop is running. With Linux or OSX it'd be something like "dmesg" or "journalctl". I dunno anything about Windows.


You could try deleting the saved WiFi network from your laptop and re-adding it.


It may no longer be as true, but tomato's (or anything aside from stock's) wireless signal was buggy and slower.

 

[wh7qq]

It may no longer be as true, but tomato's (or anything aside from stock's) wireless signal was buggy and slower.

The Linksysinfo.org forum http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/ is dedicated to Tomato firmware and also has a dedicated thread on TomatoUSB-Shibby firmware. I can't speak to the 5Ghz performance but 2.4 has always been fine for me. This may have applied to the earlier Tomato firmware (now obsolete and not supported)