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How come everybody are getting problems with firmware 3341? So far, i have not encountered any big issues. Hopefully it stays that way.
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yes i did
i can confirm is my router issue.
my note 2 can connect to other wifi networks just fine
anyway. all my other devices work anyway
Anyway guys, I posted earlier about downgrading from 3341 to 2345 using MyRepublic ISP.
A few minutes ago, my wired Internet connection went dead. Lights on AC88U are all on, but I received "DNS Server could not be reached" when visiting websites, accessing the router UI gives me "Settings has been updated. The web page will now refresh" and wifi speeds slow to a crawl (Ping test 500++ ms), I tried switching off the router and turning it on, restarting my computer. Still down for my wired connection. Noticed that the internet led is red after restarting the router.
I tried to hard reset the router and now everything works fine. This is driving me crazy I'm not sure what's causing my router to suddenly spike in ping and disconnect my wired connection. I tried disabling and enabling the adapter too but it didn't work.
After the hard reset, I made some changes in settings, such as Auto Logout to 0 (default 30), turned off Reboot Scheduler and Wireless Scheduler, turned off QoS and WPS, changed channel frequency, SSID name and password, router login name and password.
I am really not sure what is crashing my router now that I've downgraded to firmware 2345. I'll paste a log from after hard resetting my router, hopefully someone knows what happened. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have no USB Disks connected and I have 1 wired connection, 1 wired powerline connection and 4 wifi clients (phones)
EDIT: Read somewhere that DHCP Query may cause lease problems causing router to reboot every 4hr. I noticed my disconnects to be about 4hrs apart too. Have changed to Normal mode and will monitor, if fail I will probably try disabling NAT Acceleration last (I doubt MyRepublic needs to disable this..) before calling ASUS/MyRepublic for help. I'm sure my problem is configuration side.. Goodnight!
A few minutes ago, my wired Internet connection went dead. Lights on AC88U are all on, but I received "DNS Server could not be reached" when visiting websites, accessing the router UI gives me "Settings has been updated. The web page will now refresh" and wifi speeds slow to a crawl (Ping test 500++ ms), I tried switching off the router and turning it on, restarting my computer. Still down for my wired connection. Noticed that the internet led is red after restarting the router.
I tried to hard reset the router and now everything works fine. This is driving me crazy I'm not sure what's causing my router to suddenly spike in ping and disconnect my wired connection. I tried disabling and enabling the adapter too but it didn't work.
After the hard reset, I made some changes in settings, such as Auto Logout to 0 (default 30), turned off Reboot Scheduler and Wireless Scheduler, turned off QoS and WPS, changed channel frequency, SSID name and password, router login name and password.
I am really not sure what is crashing my router now that I've downgraded to firmware 2345. I'll paste a log from after hard resetting my router, hopefully someone knows what happened. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have no USB Disks connected and I have 1 wired connection, 1 wired powerline connection and 4 wifi clients (phones)
EDIT: Read somewhere that DHCP Query may cause lease problems causing router to reboot every 4hr. I noticed my disconnects to be about 4hrs apart too. Have changed to Normal mode and will monitor, if fail I will probably try disabling NAT Acceleration last (I doubt MyRepublic needs to disable this..) before calling ASUS/MyRepublic for help. I'm sure my problem is configuration side.. Goodnight!
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Ohh crap, should have checked out this thread earlier. Just got this router yesterday and itchy-finger saw got new firmware, so just let it update.
As with quite a number here, having disconnection issues on both 2.4 and 5Ghz..
As with quite a number here, having disconnection issues on both 2.4 and 5Ghz..
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You will probably see 100-200++ speeds on your air 2 due to support for 802.11ac. Do note, once your iPad air 1 joins the same 5 ghz Wi-Fi network, it will drop both devices to 802.11n speeds
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Do you meant to say WiFi speed will follow the slowest device in the same system?
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It depends, 5 ghz has 20/40/80 mhz channels.
Basically both Wi-Fi n (max 40mhz) and ac devices support 40mhz. On the other hand, ac devices may or may not support 80mhz.
If your 802.11ac devices don't support 80 mhz, then you won't see a difference in speed.
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Auto logout has no bearing on your disconnection. It refers to how long router will wait once user interface is idle before logging out of the GUI.
It's good to enable reboot scheduler as it allows the router to perform rubbish maintenance. Just set it to reboot when it's least likely to affect usage.
Seems like you are maybe facing issues with my republic dns server. You can try using other dns servers to see if it helps.
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Many thanks for your explanation!
Hey xonix. Thanks for answering. I came home a couple hours ago and my family told me wifi works perfect today, really damn happy. Turned on my computer and surfed the internet for a while with no problems but got disconnected again. I checked with family, no one was disconnected on wifi and my phone was connected fine too. I tried IPv4 DNS from Auto to 8.8.8.8 and rebooted my computer and it worked. But prior to that, I did an instant reboot and the connection didn't restore. Seems like you hit the nail on the DNS server but I'm clueless on what is screwing up my auto dns obtaining.
I gave a call to MyRepublic but the technician says this issue is weird because he never heard of such problem being solved by setting DNS server to google and settled. I'll monitor again my wired connection on the 8.8.8.8 DNS server.
Thanks, I will re-enable the scheduler if that's the case. Your reply is really appreciated!
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Hey xonix. Thanks for answering. I came home a couple hours ago and my family told me wifi works perfect today, really damn happy. Turned on my computer and surfed the internet for a while with no problems but got disconnected again. I checked with family, no one was disconnected on wifi and my phone was connected fine too. I tried IPv4 DNS from Auto to 8.8.8.8 and rebooted my computer and it worked. But prior to that, I did an instant reboot and the connection didn't restore. Seems like you hit the nail on the DNS server but I'm clueless on what is screwing up my auto dns obtaining.
I gave a call to MyRepublic but the technician says this issue is weird because he never heard of such problem being solved by setting DNS server to google and settled. I'll monitor again my wired connection on the 8.8.8.8 DNS server.
Thanks, I will re-enable the scheduler if that's the case. Your reply is really appreciated!
xonix is right, MR DNS really cranky from time to time, have to manually switch to google's dns to get my internet back. Many times it just broke out of the blue ...
Hi guys, quick update..
Internet still dropping to ridiculous pings (3k-5k ms) or disconnected altogether sometimes (getting DNS Server could not be found/resolved too). Apparently it happens every few chunks of hours. Tested a direct connection to the MyRepublic ONT and connection is perfect with no drops. I strongly believe something is wrong with my router.
MR Tech will continue to monitor my connection and call me over the next couple days.
Will bring to Avertek tomorrow. Sigh..
Internet still dropping to ridiculous pings (3k-5k ms) or disconnected altogether sometimes (getting DNS Server could not be found/resolved too). Apparently it happens every few chunks of hours. Tested a direct connection to the MyRepublic ONT and connection is perfect with no drops. I strongly believe something is wrong with my router.
MR Tech will continue to monitor my connection and call me over the next couple days.
Will bring to Avertek tomorrow. Sigh..
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Quick update on mine as well.
Router just bit the dust.
At around 2200h last night, the unit dropped all local connections, unable to connect back.
Status LED on the router only show the first 4: power, wifi, wifi 5Ghz and Internet. The LAN network LED is unlit.
Power recycling yielded no results, unit went into a boot loop. Doing a hard reset does not work either.
Looks like i gotta bring it in for replacement.
edit: weird ****, router seems to be overheating? set it aside for awhile while i was looking up service center address, turn it on just to reconfirm, and it boots up just fine again.
edit: so now it boots, but after the hard reset, i can't log in with admin/admin
Router just bit the dust.
At around 2200h last night, the unit dropped all local connections, unable to connect back.
Status LED on the router only show the first 4: power, wifi, wifi 5Ghz and Internet. The LAN network LED is unlit.
Power recycling yielded no results, unit went into a boot loop. Doing a hard reset does not work either.
Looks like i gotta bring it in for replacement.
edit: weird ****, router seems to be overheating? set it aside for awhile while i was looking up service center address, turn it on just to reconfirm, and it boots up just fine again.
edit: so now it boots, but after the hard reset, i can't log in with admin/admin
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Bro, I came back from Avertek today. The support guy there told me 3341 firmware is confirmed to give problems with the router and said not to upgrade to 3341 no matter what. Instantly gave me a new router. So far so good. Will be back to update again.
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Am at avertek now, with 2 more people who have problems with the same router lol
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I'm currently using N66U with 200M Singtel fibre. PC is just about 6-7m away with line of sight, using USB-N66 adapter.
Just got upgraded to 500M.
I'm thinking of upgrading router just to optimize the "foundation".
Situation is:
- 1 x PC being the main machine. Other devices utilizing are 3 x phones and 1 x iPad. 1 x laptop occasional.
- No NAS.
- No heavy usage. Just usual surfing.
- Somehow 5G coverage better than 2.4G in my house, so all devices on 5G.
- Full wireless usage at home. Due to whatever circumstances I won't be wiring up.
Considering between AC68 and AC88.
AC88 because even the 2.4G hits the 1G "milestone", which I foresee is the subscription I would eventually settle for without paying more for years to come. Hence "technically" I have covered all grounds. Understand the AC88 adapter still not available yet but that can come later.
AC68 as a minimum as the 5G would hit 1G and hence cater for it.
Now comes the key questions....
1) If I have the corresponding adapters (68 and 88 to so called establish the maximum link), at 1G subscription, will there be any improvement with AC88's 2167 Mbps link over AC68's 1300 Mbps link? Will the AC68's extra 300Mbps have enough buffer for real world throughput such that any/most losses are due to external factors (eg. internet servers) and not domestic connection limits?
2) If I eventually get to setup a NAS, will the AC88 have any benefit over AC68 based on my usage? Will the AC68's extra 300Mbps have enough buffer to cater for the NAS 1G connection such that any/most losses are between router and NAS and not due to the wifi connection limits?
Just got upgraded to 500M.
I'm thinking of upgrading router just to optimize the "foundation".
Situation is:
- 1 x PC being the main machine. Other devices utilizing are 3 x phones and 1 x iPad. 1 x laptop occasional.
- No NAS.
- No heavy usage. Just usual surfing.
- Somehow 5G coverage better than 2.4G in my house, so all devices on 5G.
- Full wireless usage at home. Due to whatever circumstances I won't be wiring up.
Considering between AC68 and AC88.
AC88 because even the 2.4G hits the 1G "milestone", which I foresee is the subscription I would eventually settle for without paying more for years to come. Hence "technically" I have covered all grounds. Understand the AC88 adapter still not available yet but that can come later.
AC68 as a minimum as the 5G would hit 1G and hence cater for it.
Now comes the key questions....
1) If I have the corresponding adapters (68 and 88 to so called establish the maximum link), at 1G subscription, will there be any improvement with AC88's 2167 Mbps link over AC68's 1300 Mbps link? Will the AC68's extra 300Mbps have enough buffer for real world throughput such that any/most losses are due to external factors (eg. internet servers) and not domestic connection limits?
2) If I eventually get to setup a NAS, will the AC88 have any benefit over AC68 based on my usage? Will the AC68's extra 300Mbps have enough buffer to cater for the NAS 1G connection such that any/most losses are between router and NAS and not due to the wifi connection limits?
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I think ac88 biggest surest advantags is the 6 lan ports. If you can utilise them all its surely worth it. Wifi is still a hit and miss if you read this thread.
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There is 8 LAN ports instead of 6.
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