marklang
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I just purchased a new Asus RT-AC88U wireless router to replace a older Cisco one for a small home office. When I tried to install, I had very strange behavior. First, the router took more than 5 minutes to communicate with my modem and set up the Internet, even after bootup (the WAN light flashed red for more than 4 minutes after all the other lights came on). After that, I had many issues. While I could access the router itself from a wired connection, and the router showed all my devices linked on the local network, I could not access any of my NAS drives. My main computer, a new Windows 10 high end laptop, could not map the drives because it could not find them. When I tried to access them directly by typing the device name into the Network field of file manager, I was taken to a login screen for the device, not to the file tree itself. After more than 4 hours with Asus support, I finally removed the RT-AC88U and put my old Cisco router back. Even then I had similar problems until I rebooted by laptop a couple of times and unmapped and remapped the NAS drives. Somehow the Asus router was messing up the routing on my network even outside the router. I had already upgraded to the latest firmware and reset the router. Of course, everything was working fine before I inserted the RT-AC88U, and I did reboot the modem before booting the router. I made no other changes.
I assume this is just a defective router. I returned it to Newegg and asked for a replacement. However, it makes me nervous. Has anyone seen anything like this? My network is unmanaged, e.g. no server to manage the domain. For that reason, the Windows 10 laptop establishes itself as the network master when I boot it up. It seems like the router must have been not just malfunctioning but sending out defective messages that caused the network management tables in the laptop to be corrupted, also. This is a very highly rated router, which is why I decided to spring for it. I just want to make sure that what I saw was defective rather than some way the RT-AC88U handles its routing functions that is non-standard. Thanks for any advice.
I assume this is just a defective router. I returned it to Newegg and asked for a replacement. However, it makes me nervous. Has anyone seen anything like this? My network is unmanaged, e.g. no server to manage the domain. For that reason, the Windows 10 laptop establishes itself as the network master when I boot it up. It seems like the router must have been not just malfunctioning but sending out defective messages that caused the network management tables in the laptop to be corrupted, also. This is a very highly rated router, which is why I decided to spring for it. I just want to make sure that what I saw was defective rather than some way the RT-AC88U handles its routing functions that is non-standard. Thanks for any advice.