[Maylyn's Review] ASUS RT-AC87U

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New ASUS RT-AC87U for Sale

Hi, I got a new ASUS RT-AC87U, just 2 days old (box opened) but everything including bill and warranty card remains intact. If any one interested please pm me. The price will be less than the market price.
 

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I need advise with 2 x AC 87U.
When I access my PC in the bed room to my NAS thru wireless which located in the living hall, the transfer speed was very slow.
If I will to setup 2 x ac87u thru bridge setup, will the speed Improve? Or lay LAN cable still the best?
 

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I need advise with 2 x AC 87U.
When I access my PC in the bed room to my NAS thru wireless which located in the living hall, the transfer speed was very slow.
If I will to setup 2 x ac87u thru bridge setup, will the speed Improve? Or lay LAN cable still the best?

LAN cables is the best, but with two AC87 in wireless bridging mode, you should be able to reach close to 3/4 of a wired gigabit LAN speed.

Post-note:

This is my speed:

 
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Small "problem" with my AC87U on Merlin376.48_1

I have disabled everything I could find with regards to the FTP on the router itself as I am running FTP on my NAS.

When I see what are the port forwarding actives, I get the following..

Destination Proto Port Range Redirect to Local Port Chain
ALL TCP 21 192.168.1.10 21 VSERVER
ALL TCP 2021 192.168.1.1 21 VSERVER

Why is the port forwarding to .1 still listed and how do I get rid of it?

Thanks
 

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Some food for thought :D

Always user problem and user mentality :s13:

Reason it takes them 4+ months to rewrite a driver?

Same reason it takes 4+ months for Asus to stabilize new routers: with so many different clients out there, just testing them out and fixing compatibility issues specific to some of them takes a lot of time.

Wifi technology is quite complex. It's not just about turning a radio on, and converting digital IP traffic into an analog signal to push through the chip. You have to manage the output per stream. You have to program and handle the error correction. Have to write the code that will handle the beamforming, varying output power per antenna based on the info you get from your clients. And on top of that, we're now also adding MU-MIMO into the equation.

And after that, you probably need to have the end result tested by RF specialists, possibly go through some certification steps.

Wifi technology code isn't something simple you can write in three weeks of spare time.

What's funny is I posted a thread a while back about how people were cooling their routers. Many said "you don't need to do that, that'sounds preposterous."

...... eat crow

I now will be purchasing a new router (probably r8000) as this is a hardware issue. No amount of firmware will fix it. Asus needs to do us a solid and recall a clearly defective product. No one buys a nearly $300.00 MSRP router to have it never function properly (and in order to do so it has to look like it's in a janitorial office).

People have been saying that the N66 was overheating, the AC66 was overheating, the AC68 was overheating, and now that the AC87 was overheating. At one point, if you keep repeating the same statement, it's bound to become correct at _some_ point...

Nobody provided any *proof* with all those previous claims.

So, let me declare that, from now on, every single router released by Asus, Netgear and Linksys are overheating. I'm sure that at some point, ONE of them will be true, eh?

Just because you can toss a coin and keep claiming it will fall on head does not mean you are able to predict the future, if after three coin toss, it finally lands on head.

Meanwhile, mine still has the same temperature as everyone else, and it's perfectly stable. I'm up to two weeks without a single reboot right now, and two nights ago I spent the whole night on the laptop, connected on the 5 GHz band.

Source ~> SmallNetBuilder Forums - View Single Post - ASUS RT-AC87 Firmware - Official Releases

~> SmallNetBuilder Forums - View Single Post - ASUS RT-AC87 Firmware - Official Releases
 

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can anyone point me to a link that show how to setup the 2nd router as a bridge?
or is there anyone can share how to setup media bridge.
Questions:-

Is it correct that the default router need to perform wireless (WDS) setup?
 

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ah, I was wondering why one of my laptop kept disconnecting randomly, so I flashed to merlin 376.48_1, but problem remains.

so I just flashed to 378_3123 and wonder will it fix the random disconnections
 
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ah, I was wondering why one of my laptop kept disconnecting randomly, so I flashed to merlin 376.48_1, but problem remains.

so I just flashed to 378_3123 and wonder will it fix the random disconnections
If it is only a problem with one client look for a driver update for that WiFi adapter. Firmware is likely not the issue. Good luck.
 

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Followup!

Rec'd this yesterday and attached it to the AC87U. NO discernible improvement in range.

Bummer. :(

Did you get one or four units? This is a directional antenna. You thus need to position it in the right direction if you are trying to maximise range. Also on the client side, your client must also be pointing in the right direction. If you get it right, directional antenna can improve range. In the early days of WiFi (when it was still 802.11b), people built their own directional antenna. The following was one made from a Pringles can.

pringlesonstandbig.jpg
 

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missed sitex deal. anywhere can get such deal? or whats the best in town now
 

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Will MU-MIMO be activated in the upcoming firmware release? Thanks.

Dear davemishsr,

Our RT-AC87U hardware is ready for MU-MIMO. For firmware side we still fine tuning on MU-MIMO feature and we will keep improve our router firmware.

Our ASUS R&D have been working very hard to improve router firmware and monitor hardwarezone forums, smallnetbuilder forums and other networking forums as well.

Unofficial beta firmware: RT-AC87U_3.0.0.4_378_3562
http://bit.ly/1zyGxaJ
*Recommended Hard reset your router.

Feel free to test this unofficial beta firmware and feedback to me :)

Best regard,
JK
 
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