[Maylyn's Review] ASUS RT-AC87U

[voltech]

Is there anyone who is a Singnet subscriber (500mbps plan), using asus rt-ac87 router, able to achieve the speed of 300-450mbps via wireless?

 

[xonix]

Is there anyone who is a Singnet subscriber (500mbps plan), using asus rt-ac87 router, able to achieve the speed of 300-450mbps via wireless?

What wireless device do you have ?
You need to have at least a good 802.11ac 2x2 client device to get that kind of speeds.

 

[voltech]

What wireless device do you have ?
You need to have at least a good 802.11ac 2x2 client device to get that kind of speeds.

Currently on my desktop, i am using Asus PCE68 wireless card and only managed to achieve the speed of 200-230 mbps. the link connection rate is 877mbps.

 

[evildoctor]

Currently on my desktop, i am using Asus PCE68 wireless card and only managed to achieve the speed of 200-230 mbps. the link connection rate is 877mbps.

Same! Am using the PCE68 Too! Also managed to achieve only 200mbps on 5GHZ...


Btw Guys! Could anyone advice on any recommended settings i should do for my AC87U?

 

[keigo]

Same! Am using the PCE68 Too! Also managed to achieve only 200mbps on 5GHZ...


Btw Guys! Could anyone advice on any recommended settings i should do for my AC87U?

Use a wifi analyzer to check which is the best channel to use, use one channel that your neighbour is not using.

 

[thiamhui]

Currently on my desktop, i am using Asus PCE68 wireless card and only managed to achieve the speed of 200-230 mbps. the link connection rate is 877mbps.

Same! Am using the PCE68 Too! Also managed to achieve only 200mbps on 5GHZ...


Btw Guys! Could anyone advice on any recommended settings i should do for my AC87U?

I can get around 200Mbps with ASUS USB-AC56. I tot the PCE68 should be able to do better...

 

[voltech]

Use a wifi analyzer to check which is the best channel to use, use one channel that your neighbour is not using.

Can i use the program provided by Asus?

 

[keigo]

Can i use the program provided by Asus?

Not sure which one you talking about.

Wifi analyzer for android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en_GB

inSSIDer for PC/MAC
http://www.metageek.com/products/inssider/

 

[voltech]

Not sure which one you talking about.

Wifi analyzer for android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en_GB

inSSIDer for PC/MAC
http://www.metageek.com/products/inssider/

Well, my wifi signal is excellent. there is no interference from other signals. link score: 100. no overlapping.

any other ideas?

 

[dfran1]

Planning to get this router when I recontract with MyR, but after reading that this router has reliability issue, should I really drop the idea or is there any reliable/stable firmware to use when I got hold of this?

I strongly advise you look into something else.

Ask people in the asus ac3200 section , that one may have some issues but so far it seems lots more stable than this one and we are coming up to a year with the 87 and firmware is now going back downhill

 

[keigo]

Well, my wifi signal is excellent. there is no interference from other signals. link score: 100. no overlapping.

any other ideas?

client device limitation, not all 2x2 wifi ac has good throughput.

using 3x3 wifi ac macbook pro

 

[jordanlah]

Is there anyone who is a Singnet subscriber (500mbps plan), using asus rt-ac87 router, able to achieve the speed of 300-450mbps via wireless?

Hi voltech,

I'm on Singtel 500mbps Fibre. Took me a while to get these speeds:

I'm using RT-AC87 in place of the Singtel Aztech modem, and my PC is in the next room separated by a wall, using EA-AC87 as the media bridge, and the PC connected to the EA-AC87 through a cat 5E cable.

If you read back earlier pages - one of the key thing in getting good speedtest results was choosing the right "server" for your speedtest. It depends on your locale - for me Vodien gave the best result. Please note also for that particular server, there will be different results throughout the day too.

The other is choosing the right channel for the 5GHz. You will have to find out what channels your neighbors use, and avoid them. I also avoided connecting any other devices to the 5GHz channel too - setting most of the other devices(printer, Apple TV, handphones) to the 2.4GHz channel.

Hope that helps.

 

[Jurong640]

I strongly advise you look into something else.

Ask people in the asus ac3200 section , that one may have some issues but so far it seems lots more stable than this one and we are coming up to a year with the 87 and firmware is now going back downhill

you may hang on awhile. Ac87 may still have potential to stable. It's current;y facing disconnections issues with samsung users, it might be solved soon. Still waiting for it

 

[dfran1]

you may hang on awhile. Ac87 may still have potential to stable. It's current;y facing disconnections issues with samsung users, it might be solved soon. Still waiting for it

Hi,
I am holding and wishing like you, if and when they do find the samsung issue, then fix it, it actually fixes the rest also. I can not afford to throw away this router, I was responding to someone else thinking about getting an 87.

But I do agree and hope when they find the samsung issue it fixed a lot more than just samsung.
Cheers

 

[davemishsr]

you may hang on awhile. Ac87 may still have potential to stable. It's current;y facing disconnections issues with samsung users, it might be solved soon. Still waiting for it

I agree. My AC87R works great but I have a very simple configuration. No VPN's or anything else special. I have flow acceleration enabled so I have to avoid the "4 Tabs of the Apocalypse". Those are: AiProtection; AiCloud; Traffic Analyzer (the statistics page); and Adaptive QoS.

My go-to-move is to use John9527's nice little nvram save & restore utility over at the SNB ASUSWRT-Merlin forum. Then perform a reset to factory defaults (using your manner of choice) and disable STP (if you haven't already). You must disable STP to enable flow acceleration in Merlin's firmware.

If you have used the NVRAM save and restore utility, then you go to Administration|System and enable telnet. Then you restore your router settings and your are done. Unless you are running JFFS2 scripts but guess what? The utility backs them up too (you just have to run a separate commend).

I also have a cheap laptop cooling fan under my router. I am convinced that the cooling system I have along with very systematic trial and error experimenting with nvram settings have resulted in the stable environment that I have been lucky enough to stumble upon (almost blindly so).

I hope that this info might prove useful to someone.

 

[voltech]

Hi voltech,

I'm on Singtel 500mbps Fibre. Took me a while to get these speeds:

I'm using RT-AC87 in place of the Singtel Aztech modem, and my PC is in the next room separated by a wall, using EA-AC87 as the media bridge, and the PC connected to the EA-AC87 through a cat 5E cable.

If you read back earlier pages - one of the key thing in getting good speedtest results was choosing the right "server" for your speedtest. It depends on your locale - for me Vodien gave the best result. Please note also for that particular server, there will be different results throughout the day too.

The other is choosing the right channel for the 5GHz. You will have to find out what channels your neighbors use, and avoid them. I also avoided connecting any other devices to the 5GHz channel too - setting most of the other devices(printer, Apple TV, handphones) to the 2.4GHz channel.

Hope that helps.

Hi jordanlah,

my wifi 5ghz channel is separated from other neighbour. i too know that different server give different speed. my router is on the 1st floor, while im on the second floor. wifi signal strength is excellent. i just did a speedtest with newmedia express. and im getting around 400mbps. thanks for your feedback. i will monitor my side again

its greatly appreciated!

 

[leonaheidern]

I agree. My AC87R works great but I have a very simple configuration. No VPN's or anything else special. I have flow acceleration enabled so I have to avoid the "4 Tabs of the Apocalypse". Those are: AiProtection; AiCloud; Traffic Analyzer (the statistics page); and Adaptive QoS.

My go-to-move is to use John9527's nice little nvram save & restore utility over at the SNB ASUSWRT-Merlin forum. Then perform a reset to factory defaults (using your manner of choice) and disable STP (if you haven't already). You must disable STP to enable flow acceleration in Merlin's firmware.

If you have used the NVRAM save and restore utility, then you go to Administration|System and enable telnet. Then you restore your router settings and your are done. Unless you are running JFFS2 scripts but guess what? The utility backs them up too (you just have to run a separate commend).

I also have a cheap laptop cooling fan under my router. I am convinced that the cooling system I have along with very systematic trial and error experimenting with nvram settings have resulted in the stable environment that I have been lucky enough to stumble upon (almost blindly so).

I hope that this info might prove useful to someone.

Hi Davemishsr, mind sharing a photo of your ac87u on the laptop cooler.

Is it a fan blowing at the ac87u or do you put the ac87u on top of the laptop cooler

Sent from Sony C6603 using GAGT

 

[oric1]

Hi Davemishsr, mind sharing a photo of your ac87u on the laptop cooler.

Is it a fan blowing at the ac87u or do you put the ac87u on top of the laptop cooler

Sent from Sony C6603 using GAGT

Here's Davemishsr's RT-AC87U/R: Cooling solutions.

Here's mine Cooler Master NOTEPAL X-SLIM II.

Can't hear the 200mm fan motor spinning. It's dead silent.

Before
2.4GHz = 50°C | 5GHz = 72°C | CPU = 92°C

After
2.4GHz = 42°C | 5GHz = 56°C | CPU = 65°C

 

[sequalancer]

Here's Davemishsr's RT-AC87U/R: Cooling solutions.

Here's mine Cooler Master NOTEPAL X-SLIM II.

Can't hear the 200mm fan motor spinning. It's dead silent.

Before
2.4GHz = 50°C | 5GHz = 72°C | CPU = 92°C

After
2.4GHz = 42°C | 5GHz = 56°C | CPU = 65°C

This is cheap and good, I've been using this since day 1.

 

[keigo]

Here's Davemishsr's RT-AC87U/R: Cooling solutions.

Here's mine Cooler Master NOTEPAL X-SLIM II.

Can't hear the 200mm fan motor spinning. It's dead silent.

Before
2.4GHz = 50°C | 5GHz = 72°C | CPU = 92°C

After
2.4GHz = 42°C | 5GHz = 56°C | CPU = 65°C

Did you overclocked your router as well, Davemishsr's lower with overclocked speed 1400/800.

Anyway I got little performance gain from overclocking with the overall network throughput.

1000/800 default speed

1400/800 overclocked speed

No difference in wireless performance though.