Switching Primary WAN from Ethernet to USB Very Slow

[bnhf]

I'm guessing this falls under the category of "optimization requests", but I'm not seeing an official way to do that so here's my issue:

On the RT-AC66U_B1 and the RT-AC68U switching the Primary WAN interface from USB to WAN takes about 2 minutes and 20 seconds and requires a fresh login afterwards. Not a big deal if you're doing it once in awhile, but for anyone that switches multiple times in a given day it starts to seem very slow. Especially when compared to the same procedure on Cradlepoint routers (5 seconds or so to switch interfaces), or dd-wrt which as I recall was pretty quick too.

I imagine this is the stock Asus code here, and I'm hoping that there's a way to speed up this process. Obviously workable the way it is, but it would be a nice improvement that seems in the spirit of what RMerlin is doing with this project.

 

[thelonelycoder]

I'm guessing this falls under the category of "optimization requests", but I'm not seeing an official way to do that so here's my issue:

On the RT-AC66U_B1 and the RT-AC68U switching the Primary WAN interface from USB to WAN takes about 2 minutes and 20 seconds and requires a fresh login afterwards. Not a big deal if you're doing it once in awhile, but for anyone that switches multiple times in a given day it starts to seem very slow. Especially when compared to the same procedure on Cradlepoint routers (5 seconds or so to switch interfaces), or dd-wrt which as I recall was pretty quick too.

I imagine this is the stock Asus code here, and I'm hoping that there's a way to speed up this process. Obviously workable the way it is, but it would be a nice improvement that seems in the spirit of what RMerlin is doing with this project.

If you do that regulaarily, why not configure dual WAN, with the primary on the WAN port and secondary the USB port.
Then only plug in the you want to use?
This way you don't need to do the switching manually.