Using Asus routers as VLAN-capable APs

[cptnoblivious]

In some ways, the CGU is somewhat boring; just set things to auto and leave it.

... and then things just work and don't break all the time

 

[Tech9]

CGU is somewhat boring

The frequent need of reboot and reset killed my interest in testing Asuswrt. This thing often remains in somewhat broken state after playing with settings and needs a reset for fresh start. At some point I realized the time wasted in reboots and resets exceeds the time needed for actual testing. When the reset itself doesn't work as expected and it happens - priceless. I found Asus routers behave better when a mallet or a hammer is placed right next to them. Some weird glitches miraculously disappear.

 

[agbommarito]

The frequent need of reboot and reset killed my interest in testing Asuswrt. This thing often remains in somewhat broken state after playing with settings and needs a reset for fresh start. At some point I realized the time wasted in reboots and resets exceeds the time needed for actual testing. When the reset itself doesn't work as expected and it happens - priceless. I found Asus routers behave better when a mallet or a hammer is placed right next to them. Some weird glitches miraculously disappear.

Notwithstanding what you said, I still think that Asus routers are the best consumer devices available. The long-term support is unmatched by any other vendor I know of; the RT-N66U just got an update. That was the first Asus device I purchased, which was over 10 years ago. I still have it, and it still works whenever I get it out of storage to try something.

 

[Tech9]

They do release firmware updates more frequently and for longer period of time, but based on my own experience the quality control is surprisingly low and some widely advertised as advantage features remain broken for years. Very often the users can experience cycles of fixed/broken the same feature in consecutive firmware releases. Some releases with broken GUI pages (like AiMesh page recently) make you wonder if someone at Asus actually fired up this thing even once. The reality - if there was no Asuswrt-Merlin option for popular Asus models many folks around would be using something else.

 

[cptnoblivious]

Yup. If I hadn't gotten a CGU I'd be running a Flint-2 now.

 

[bits]

Yup. If I hadn't gotten a CGU I'd be running a Flint-2 now.

Gl-inet is not a great example of quality control of software.
There is currently endless reports of bricking devices with a still recommended uboot upgrade. The uboot upgrade is to fix a problem with bricking devices due to incorrect settings used in the original uboot for years.

The flint2 currently has 2 streams of official firmware. One based on openwrt 21 and one based on openwrt 24. Gl-inet have flip flopped on which branch is the default offer because of bugs in both.
In just the last few days 4.7.5-op24 was pulled and re-released to fix some of the bigger crippling brand new bugs. Such as forgetting to include their default/core software package astrowarp.