why need to pay $399?
$299 after Singtel Fibre Unlimited discount...
why need to pay $399?
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?
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.
eh, does dual WAN disable h/w acceleration on the AC87U? thanks
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.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
Hi all,
does anyone know if I can attach the Asus WL-ANT-157 Antenna to the AC87U? Thanks.
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.
Followup!
Rec'd this yesterday and attached it to the AC87U. NO discernible improvement in range.
Bummer.
Will MU-MIMO be activated in the upcoming firmware release? Thanks.New firmware is coming soon..
Testing on newer build.
Best regard,
JK
Glad to hear your issue is resolved. Now if only every issue were so easy to correct...wifi adapter driver updated, problem solved
Will MU-MIMO be activated in the upcoming firmware release? Thanks.