[Maylyn's Preview ~ Networking] ASUS RT-AC56U

[samloi]

How much is this selling in Challenger?

Iirc. Its 279. Might be wrong so dont quote me on that.

 

[stiwipl]

Saw this at challenger yesterday. Almost bought it but decided to wait till comex to check out the ac68

But there won't be much difference between them from what I read? The CPU is supposed to be the same, it might only have slightly better WiFi coverage.

 

[stiwipl]

Iirc. Its 279. Might be wrong so dont quote me on that.

Correct, I bought it today at $279, $10 off for members. It seems only Challenger carry them so far as I was at Funan during the weekend and checked out few shops looking for this particular model but they didn't have it.

 

[sqgator]

Correct, I bought it today at $279, $10 off for members. It seems only Challenger carry them so far as I was at Funan during the weekend and checked out few shops looking for this particular model but they didn't have it.

How is Wi-Fi coverage so far for AC56?

 

[asswor]

I changed to the ac-56u from the rt-n66u. In terms of range it is able to cover my 5Rm hdb (placed in center of house), ard 1dbm lower at locations i normally put my computers on 2.4Ghz(constant 4 to 5 bars signal). Plugging in a usb 3.0 harddisk does affect the wireless though.

As for 5Ghz I have no idea if it is the beamforming at work, signal wise is a lot better than the RT-n66u. i am getting ard 5bars while transmitting, when idling it drops back to 3 bars.

If installing Rmerlin's firmware, it does respond slightly faster when running entwares and optwares. And also services in the "USB application section" and also openVPN indeed got a slight performance boost

 

[stiwipl]

How is Wi-Fi coverage so far for AC56?

WiFi coverage is quite good and should work well when placed in the middle. What surprised me though is very good coverage on 5Ghz WiFi. However for me WiFi range was not a priority as I am wired everywhere with mini AP plugged in for mobile devices.

I am unable to advise whether it is better to wait for RT-AC68U in terms of better WiFi coverage or not. In theory 3 external antennas of AC68U should provide a wider coverage.

 

[stiwipl]

RT-AC68U will be available next week with rumoured price of S$399:
Comex 2013 Preview - Let the Bargain Hunting Begin! - HardwareZone.com.sg

So it is going to cost S$120 more than RT-AC56U. I wonder if it is worth the difference, let's wait for the technical specs.

 

[stiwipl]

I changed to the ac-56u from the rt-n66u. In terms of range it is able to cover my 5Rm hdb (placed in center of house), ard 1dbm lower at locations i normally put my computers on 2.4Ghz(constant 4 to 5 bars signal). Plugging in a usb 3.0 harddisk does affect the wireless though.

As for 5Ghz I have no idea if it is the beamforming at work, signal wise is a lot better than the RT-n66u. i am getting ard 5bars while transmitting, when idling it drops back to 3 bars.

If installing Rmerlin's firmware, it does respond slightly faster when running entwares and optwares. And also services in the "USB application section" and also openVPN indeed got a slight performance boost

At what temperature is your AC56U running?
Go to http://192.168.1.1/Tools_RunCmd.asp and type:

cat /proc/dmu/temperature

 

[asswor]

I did as above, it is running at 80 degrees Celsius

 

[stiwipl]

I did as above, it is running at 80 degrees Celsius

Thanks, mine is the same. I wonder why it is so high, on other forums people report temperatures of 56-72 degrees for the same model.

 

[asswor]

yeah. I saw that too. I tried resetting to defaults and it is still running at that temperature. Didn't dare todo over clocking when I saw it.

 

[asswor]

By the way disabling aicloud and those server services the temperature drops to the 60+ range. I guess those ppl turned off the USB related services

 

[stiwipl]

By the way disabling aicloud and those server services the temperature drops to the 60+ range. I guess those ppl turned off the USB related services

I can't find an option to turn them off. Can you guide me?

 

[asswor]

or is it because mine is accessing those services thus resulting in higher temperature?

 

[stiwipl]

or is it because mine is accessing those services thus resulting in higher temperature?

Does it mean mine is a faulty unit?

 

[ASUS@SG]

Guys would you mind provide me print screen of your cmd temperature

 

[stiwipl]

Guys would you mind provide me print screen of your cmd temperature

Here you go:

Can you advise whether it is normal or the unit is faulty?

 

[crewcutboy]

I've discovered an issue with the AC56U and MioTV (using Merlin's firmware).

I have 2 set top boxes, so I set manual IPTV profile with LAN ports 3 and 4: VID 20, PRIO 4. However, only port 3 works. The set top box connected to port 4 doesn't.

I was using the N66U previously and this setting worked perfectly.

 

[asswor]

Mine is the same at 80degrees. But it remains stable there. Doesn't go up nor down and the router isnt unstable. So i suppose its ok? Can Asus@SG confirm it's norminal working temperature?

 

[stiwipl]

Mine is the same at 80degrees. But it remains stable there. Doesn't go up nor down and the router isnt unstable. So i suppose its ok?

Normally I would say as as we both have the same but it is not what others including Merlin have reported here. 57-72 degrees vs 81 is quite a big difference. And I don't have any server / USB / AiCloud services running.