[Maylyn's Review] ASUS RT-AC87U

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ASUS@SG,

20 hours and 30 minutes in

So far no wifi drops on any device
Samsung TV played a movie great with DNLA
iphone 6 plus no problems
iphone 6 no problems
ipad air2 no problems
of course other wifi devices in the backgrounds I have not tested.

USB sambra working OK

DNLA media server is still running (so far)

PS4 lag yes at this point (was ok up to this point in time), I had to go into WAN , then toggle UPnP, then click apply, and no PS4 lag at the moment, SO this is still a issue.

Still testing the rest, and I have not rebooted the router yet.

Just so all knows, I
1. erase nvram from telnet in dd-wrt
2. installed asus firmware thru web interface in dd-wrt, with a reset to factory default
3. went into asus firmware gui and did a factory default
4. configured 3-mac to IP, 2-port forward, changed time zone, added a user to sambra share, changed the ssid to a 4 alfa id no spaces, a alpha numeric WPS2 personal security to both 2.4 and 5GHz, and DYDNS thats all, nothing else was turned off or on.

I did my lag tests, and it started out at 6-8 seconds at this point, then it dropped to 4 seconds sometimes going higher. So I tried a few games----- choppy laggy!!! I could barely get a kill.


So I rebooted the router, and like usual the lag test stayed at 8 seconds.

I then installed dd-wrt and NO LAG, matter in fact I was the top player in 3 games in a row.

Asus this NEEDS to be addressed and I do not understand the reboot thing...
every time I reboot this router (or my friends, or the one before this one that I had, 3 in total) your firmware gets all screwed up, meaning, LAG, loss of wifi, everything just about, the only way to fix it is factory default or reload firmware, maybe something is staying in nvram when it should be cleared.
This never happened when I first purchased back in august. I do not know what you did with the latest firmwares but it sucks big time. I actually think its related the base or whatever that is called, because it also happens on dd-wrt (tho I have not tested that in a while with dd-wrt).

BUT the rest seemed fine, but it was only 24 hours soo..

I hope this helps and you know how to test for this?
you do seem to have some progress at least (seems).
!!Thank You!!!

I am back on dd-wrt for now.
 
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Just brought the AC87u, do I need to set anything
if I want to connect a Cisco 8 port Gigaport switch?
 

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I have installed the beta firmware but beamforming was enabled by default.

My entire house is cabled physically.

a) If i want to improve my wifi coverage, should I set the 2nd AC87 as an Access point or as a media bridge?

b) If i set the 2nd AC87 as a media bridge, and with an Apple Time Capsule as the 3rd bridge, will it affect the AC87-AC87 performance?
 

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I have installed the beta firmware but beamforming was enabled by default.

My entire house is cabled physically.

a) If i want to improve my wifi coverage, should I set the 2nd AC87 as an Access point or as a media bridge?

b) If i set the 2nd AC87 as a media bridge, and with an Apple Time Capsule as the 3rd bridge, will it affect the AC87-AC87 performance?

Dear jingwei,

Please reset your router to factory default settings.

Best regard,
JK
 

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Dear ASUS@SG,

Feedback

4608 firmware carries some of the bugs such as no internet connectivity on 5ghz, although there is no dropping of wireless connection. other than that, not much complaints.

*amendment: wifi connection still drops, but not so frequent anymore..

my android devices experience this the most, but macbook does not.

Reset done?: Yes.
Firmware: 4608 beta
ISP / Plan: Singtel / Unlimited Fibre
 
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Dear ASUS@SG,

Feedback

4608 firmware carries some of the bugs such as no internet connectivity on 5ghz, although there is no dropping of wireless connection. other than that, not much complaints.

*amendment: wifi connection still drops, but not so frequent anymore..

my android devices experience this the most, but macbook does not.

Reset done?: Yes.
Firmware: 4608 beta
ISP / Plan: Singtel / Unlimited Fibre
Luckily it is not an iPhone... :D
 

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@ASUS@SG

Hi, thank you very much for this beta firmware. Is working very well on my router.
24 hours uptime and so far no "big" problems.

Hi,

Firewall v.3.0.0.4.378_4608 are now installed on my AC87U.

So far so good.
I have 14 devices connected (tablets, smartphones, laptops, computers, printer)
UPnP is working good.
No NAT loopback issue
VLAN1 loop seems to be fixed (br0)

- Adaptive QoS is enable (1000/1000 Mb/s)
- Parental Controls is enable
- DHCP Server is enable (Manually assigned 12 IP's)
- SSH is enable
- Tx power adjustment 50% on both bands

Disable:
- AiProtection -Network Protection (gonna enable it later)
- DLNA Media Server
- iTunes Server
- Samba
- FTP
- Universal Beamforming (default disable)
- WPS

Bugs:
- ? Traffic Manager - Traffic Monitor - Daily (I don't know if it counts correctly now - in previous release it didn't work very well)
- WPS? (I have disabled the WPS, but i think i did see it was enable on 5Ghz. I need to reboot my router to make sure. I know this was a problem in previous firmware.

After 6 hours uptime:
Temperatures:
cat /proc/dmu/temperature
CPU temperature : 83 C

qcsapi_sockrpc get_temperature
temperature_rfic_external = 0.0
temperature_rfic_internal = 66.6
temperature_bbic_internal = 75.0

wl -i eth1 phy_tempsense
53 (0x35)

I report back in couple of days :)

EDIT: 23 hours uptime

So far so good, only bug i have is the Traffic Manager - Traffic Monitor - Daily
It only shows 0.01GB.
 
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I have installed the beta firmware but beamforming was enabled by default.

My entire house is cabled physically.

a) If i want to improve my wifi coverage, should I set the 2nd AC87 as an Access point or as a media bridge?

b) If i set the 2nd AC87 as a media bridge, and with an Apple Time Capsule as the 3rd bridge, will it affect the AC87-AC87 performance?
Can any bro advise on QN a) and QN b)? Thanks in advance.

Sent from Motorola NEXUS 6 using GAGT
 

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@ASUS@SG

Hi, thank you very much for this beta firmware. Is working very well on my router.
24 hours uptime and so far no "big" problems.
For me .... Iphone 6plus will drop at both 2.4G and 5Gzh , Mate7 will drop at 5Ghz - both when sleep mode ocassionally but both will auto connect back .

So no other major issue liao.
 

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For me .... Iphone 6plus will drop at both 2.4G and 5Gzh , Mate7 will drop at 5Ghz - both when sleep mode ocassionally but both will auto connect back .

So no other major issue liao.

I dont have dc issue, but when one device no internet connectivity, all devices connected to it also cannot surf.

Gonna reboot. But it occurred so far for once only..
 

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I dont have dc issue, but when one device no internet connectivity, all devices connected to it also cannot surf.

Gonna reboot. But it occurred so far for once only..
I would say for me it is usable now as the DC is transparent to me, all will auto connect back and I do not have connected/no internet issue (this will impact the usage).
 

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I would say for me it is usable now as the DC is transparent to me, all will auto connect back and I do not have connected/no internet issue (this will impact the usage).

Dear trichard,

Could you confirm your both device is same as below?

1504 Wireless Lan Drivers Ver:6.30.223.228

Ascend Mate7 firmware(MT7-L09,Android 4.4,Emtion UI 3.0,V100R001C00B127,General Version

release date: 22nd January 2015

Best regard,
JK
 
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Dear all,

RT-AC87U 3.0.0.4.378_4608 Unofficial Beta

Download: http://bit.ly/1HcAYC5

Changelog:
- Fix br0 issue
- Update signature version to 1.032
- Fix other bug
- Added icon on client status

* Require hard reset
* Do not restore saved configure settings

Best regard,
JK
When will the next official release be out?
 

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Dear trichard,

Could you confirm your both device is same as below?

1504 Wireless Lan Drivers Ver:6.30.223.228

Ascend Mate7 firmware(MT7-L09,Android 4.4,Emtion UI 3.0,V100R001C00B127,General Version

release date: 22nd January 2015

Best regard,
JK

1) 6.30.223.215
2) MT7-L09V100R001C00B120SP04

Updated - MATE7 now is V100R001C00B127,General Version

IPhone 6P / IPAD = IOS8.2
 
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