[Maylyn's Review] ASUS RT-AC87U

[thiamhui]

Dear Keigo,

I am not sure if Quantenna is new to end user product line and as i know they always do enterprise level.

We are working closely with Quantenna to improve the ASUS firmware.

I will release another beta build soon.

Best regard,
JK

Any new beta for us to try out for the weekend?

 

[ASUS@SG]

Any new beta for us to try out for the weekend?

Dear thiamhui,

I will stop releasing any beta firmware at this moment.

We are working to resolve some issue.

Best regard,
JK

 

[keigo]

Dear keigo,

The video show firmware version 4950.

Best regard,
JK

The guy never posted a 5587 video, but the same guy tested still have this bug in 5587.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac87u_3-0-0-4_378_5587-unofficial-beta-firmware.24492/page-2

 

[lawkoh]

Dear thiamhui,

I will stop releasing any beta firmware at this moment.

We are working to resolve some issue.

Best regard,
JK

I jumped from 4950 to 5587 with hard reset.
Since new beta not so soon, do you think it's better to roll back to official 5134? Assume Hard reset is not required.
5587 5G is laggy for iPhone 6 plus.

 

[Repsol_2]

Any idea why NAT acceleration now only shows CTF only, FA looks not enabled in merlin too. Do i need to do hard reset once more? I upgraded to Merlin.

 

[thiamhui]

I jumped from 4950 to 5587 with hard reset.
Since new beta not so soon, do you think it's better to roll back to official 5134? Assume Hard reset is not required.
5587 5G is laggy for iPhone 6 plus.

You will need to hard reset again if roll back to 5134, I think...

 

[Repsol_2]

Dear Repsol,

I mean when you upgrade to 5587, did you done any hard reset?

I don't have any issue with my Nas

Best regard,
JK

I already stated hard reset is needed. Means i definitely done hard reset.

 

[ASUS@SG]

The guy never posted a 5587 video, but the same guy tested still have this bug in 5587.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac87u_3-0-0-4_378_5587-unofficial-beta-firmware.24492/page-2

Dear keigo,

Thank you for your feedback.

Best regard,
JK

 

[ASUS@SG]

I jumped from 4950 to 5587 with hard reset.
Since new beta not so soon, do you think it's better to roll back to official 5134? Assume Hard reset is not required.
5587 5G is laggy for iPhone 6 plus.

Dear lawkoh,

Are you using latest iOS 8.3?

Best regard,
JK

 

[lawkoh]

Dear lawkoh,

Are you using latest iOS 8.3?

Best regard,
JK

Yes JK, IOS 8.3
If I roll back to 5134, hard reset compulsory?

 

[Repsol_2]

ANy idea why i do not have the Level 1 & Level 2 option?

Upgrading to Merlin gives back the VLAN Loopback issue. Lolx

 

[maylyn]

ANy idea why i do not have the Level 1 & Level 2 option?

Upgrading to Merlin gives back the VLAN Loopback issue. Lolx

The level 1 (CTF only) and level 2 (CTF+FA) has been removed ages ago. Reason being level 2 (FA) isn't being that compatible by Broadcom hence only CTF is in used now.

As for VLAN loopback, what ISP are you subscribed to? There is an VLAN loopback issue with AiProtection, VLAN tag in used if i'm not wrong. Alternative upgrade to the 5587 for the time being or disable the Aiprotection or await for the next RMerlin firmware release.

 

[Repsol_2]

I terminal in, couldn't find much info on how to fix the VLAN 10 issue and NAT acceleration. sigh. anyone can help? Thought i could fix it via command prompt. Unfortunately this is not cisco. Linux is nightmare for me.

admin@RT-AC87U-D1E0:/tmp/home/root# ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/ether ac:9e:17:93:d1:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/ether ac:9e:17:93:d1:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: vlan1@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
link/ether ac:9e:17:93:d1:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: vlan10@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
link/ether ac:9e:17:93:d1:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/ether ac:9e:17:93:d1:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: wl0.1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/ether ac:9e:17:93:d1:e1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
admin@RT-AC87U-D1E0:/tmp/home/root#

 

[Repsol_2]

The level 1 (CTF only) and level 2 (CTF+FA) has been removed ages ago. Reason being level 2 (FA) isn't being that compatible by Broadcom hence only CTF is in used now.

As for VLAN loopback, what ISP are you subscribed to? There is an VLAN loopback issue with AiProtection, VLAN tag in used if i'm not wrong. Alternative upgrade to the 5587 for the time being or disable the Aiprotection or await for the next RMerlin firmware release.

ahh, thanks for the info. You're right, no more VLAN10 issue after disabling the AI.

 

[Repsol_2]

Kinda like this router a lot, no more clutter
Before

After

 

[Repsol_2]

One thing to note, this router cannot take heavy load. Once you have BT running on our external NAS Running on RJ45, just having 10 downloads. The processors gonna hit the roof and disconnect, reboot. Whole network will slow down to a crawl.

 

[keigo]

One thing to note, this router cannot take heavy load. Once you have BT running on our external NAS Running on RJ45, just having 10 downloads. The processors gonna hit the roof and disconnect, reboot. Whole network will slow down to a crawl.

My BT also downloaded to external NAS on RJ45. All 10 files with tons of seeds/peers for each torrent? I tried b4 more than 10 torrents at once but I am using private tracker so not as many connections compared to public trackers.

But this router can handle around 30k maximum simultaneous connections. AC3200 can do like 45k if u want to compare.

 

[Jurong640]

hi check with you call. the IPTV settings on the router, if i configure port 4 for IPTV and connect my Android mediabox, will it affect the speed thru port 4? Or the IPTV settings is just for Mio TV?

 

[keigo]

hi check with you call. the IPTV settings on the router, if i configure port 4 for IPTV and connect my Android mediabox, will it affect the speed thru port 4? Or the IPTV settings is just for Mio TV?

the vlan tagging is just for miotv to work, you don't need it for your android mediabox

 

[Repsol_2]

My BT also downloaded to external NAS on RJ45. All 10 files with tons of seeds/peers for each torrent? I tried b4 more than 10 torrents at once but I am using private tracker so not as many connections compared to public trackers.

But this router can handle around 30k maximum simultaneous connections. AC3200 can do like 45k if u want to compare.

Am not sure what NAS you use, QNAP seems to bring the whole router down when I download simultaneously. the processors really constant 100%.