ASUS RT-AX58 - Firmware version 3.0.0.4.388.24762

Yesterday my RT-AX58U router found this new firmware. It isn't posted here or on the official Asus firmware download pages.
So no changelog (yet)

Looks like it is up now

Bug Fixes and Enhancements：
- Improved AiMesh backhaul stability.
- Resolved the issue with login and password changes.
- Enabled WireGuard Server clients to access the Samba server.
- Enabled the failback function when using the iOS/Android USB backup WAN.
- Improved Wireguard performance.
- Enabled DynDNS and No-IP DDNS to use IPv6.
- Improved memory utilization and fixed an occasional server error when registering DDNS with an app.
- Modified the USB application option text in dual WAN.
- Added DS-Lite Support.
- Fixed ipv6 network service filter issues
- Fixed the IPsec VPN compatibility issue with Win10.
- Fixed the reboot issue when assigning specific clients in VPN fusion.
- Fixed the time display issue for the preferred upgrade time in the Auto Firmware Upgrade function.
- Resolved the IPSec VPN and Instant Guard connection issues.
- Resolved an issue that caused hostname errors in the DDNS service.

Security updates:
- Enabled and supported ECDSA certificates for Let's Encrypt.
- Enhanced protection for credentials.
- Enhanced protection for OTA firmware updates.
- Enhanced protection against SSH brute force attacks.
- Fixed several curl vulnerabilities.
- Fixed command injection vulnerability.
- Fixed the ARP poisoning vulnerability.
- Fixed code execution in custom OVPN.
- Fixed the injection vulnerability in AiCloud.
- Fixed stack buffer overflow in lighttpd.
- Fixed CVE-2023-35720
- Fixed the code execution vulnerability in AiCloud.
- Fixed the XSS and Self-reflected HTML injection vulnerability.


the firmwares releases are getting farther apart but we sure do get a lot of changes in them.

downloading it now.

They also added freemyip.com DDNS provider but didn't mention it in the changelog.

Upgraded from Merlin 388.6_2 a few hours ago (Merlin 388.6_2 -> Asuswrt 386.45898 -> Asuswrt 388.24762) and everything works fine.

RT-AX3000 version posted as well:

ericthefish said:

RT-AX3000 version posted as well:

RT-AX3000｜WiFi Routers｜ASUS Global

ASUS has a range of wireless routers suitable for every purpose. Whether it's for your home, for business trips, or for any other need or environment, there's an ASUS router for you.

www.asus.com

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This is exactly the same router running exactly the same firmware. Different marketing only.

I know, but it does have its own webpage and the file says AX3000..

FWIW, I installed this on mine this morning, haven't seen any issues. (But am simple- no mesh or anything.).

-E

ericthefish said:

I know, but it does have its own webpage and the file says AX3000..

FWIW, I installed this on mine this morning, haven't seen any issues. (But am simple- no mesh or anything.).

-E

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It broke my AiMesh system reboot (booting master and nodes in sync). And if I just boot the master node, a day or later the secondary node will disconnect itself from the master node from admin web page point of view. I can still get LAN connection to Internet on secondary node, but the admin web page won't see it and declared it is disconnected.
Haven't done the full reset / restore setting trick yet.

UPDATE: after 30 minutes of manually rebooted the secondary node, now the AiMesh/System Settings/System Reboot is willing to boot BOTH my master node and secondary node. How strange...

After more than 24 hours of use, I would say the new firmware (388.24762) really has some issues, at least on web admin UI.
The AiMesh connection would disappear (Disconnected status) from the admin page from time to time, you leave it alone for a few minutes, login again, and it will come back. The connected devices on the second node cannot be seen but to gradually appear.
On the network side, it looks like working normally, both the wired and wireless network on the second node.
Tried AiMesh System Reboot, power off/on the devices physically, with no apparent improvement.
Did think about to revert the firmware to previous version, but given it doesn't have any actual networking issue, I decide to keep it for a while and see if Asus would come up with a firmware update.
p.s. Mine is a pair of RT-AX3000, with wired backhaul to run AiMesh. The web admin UI is run on a MacBook Safari browser.

anyone else have a bunch of gibberish characters when viewing the client list on the network map ?

Jimmy8881 said:

anyone else have a bunch of gibberish characters when viewing the client list on the network map ?

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Yes, on one client. It looks like on mine the long name from the previous device decided to roll over onto the garbled looking device name.

Jimmy8881 said:

anyone else have a bunch of gibberish characters when viewing the client list on the network map ?

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i use mine as a node and i currently don't see anything like that.

I don't remember what my previous version was, but after the upgrade (RT-AX3000 - simple router setup), the wifi connection (2.4ghz) is horrible. Hardly any range and keeps disconnecting, hard to connect to.
Has anyone else had this issue and/or is there a setting that I need to check to make sure my connection is stable and have a good range?

I don't have bad 2.4GHz coverage, but in the first couple of days, the 3 cores (they only enabled 3 cores even on 4-core CPU) did have one -nearly always- 100%, which went away afterwards.

Meanwhile does your 2.4GHz channel is Auto, or manually locked at a particular channel?

My 2.4Ghz setup:
General tab:
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Wireless mode: Auto.
b/g Protection is checked
Disable 11b is not checked
802.11ax / WiFi 6 mode: Enable
Wifi Agile Multiband: Disable
Target Wake Time: Enable
Channel bandwidth: 40 Mhz
Control Channel: Auto
Extension Channel: Auto
then the authentication stuff...
Protected Management Frames: Disable
Group Key Rotation Interval: 3600

Professional tab:
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Set AP Isolated: No
Roaming assistant: disable
bluetooth coexistence: disable
enable IGMP snooping: enable
multicast rate: auto
preamble type: long
AMPDU RTS: enable
rts threshold: 2347
DTIM interval: 1
beacon interval: 100
enable tx bursting: enable
enable wmm: enable
enable wmm no-acknowledgement: disable
enable wmm APSD: enable
Optimize AMPDU aggregation: disable
modulation scheme: Up to MCS 11 (nitroquam/1024-qam)
airtime fairness: disable
multi-user mmo: disable
ofdma/802.11ax MU-MMO: disable
Explicit beamforming: enable
universal beamforming: enable
tx power adjustment: good.

I know most of those above are default settings... but just in case there's a tweak there that I don't know of.. Would love to know!

Channel bandwidth: 40 Mhz -> 20 MHz (40MHz practically unusable unless there are very few 2.4GHz APs nearby)
and do you have any Wifi scanner (like Wireless Diagnostic>Scan, or Android WifiAnalyzer, etc) to figure out the least busy channels? The Auto setting might not be optimized enough to select the right one for you.

Channel bandwidth of 20 or 40... From my computer I can connect to the router with wire fortunately, but when I try to connect to the wifi, even though it says the signal is good, it won't let me connect.

HolyMoley said:

Channel bandwidth of 20 or 40... From my computer I can connect to the router with wire fortunately, but when I try to connect to the wifi, even though it says the signal is good, it won't let me connect.

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Was able to connect. Analyzer showed that everyone is using channel bandwidth of 40 and is using up the middle of the spectrum. I'm more to the side, so 20 is better then from what I can see.

HolyMoley said:

My 2.4Ghz setup:
General tab:
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Wireless mode: Auto.
b/g Protection is checked
Disable 11b is not checked
802.11ax / WiFi 6 mode: Enable
Wifi Agile Multiband: Disable
Target Wake Time: Enable
Channel bandwidth: 40 Mhz
Control Channel: Auto
Extension Channel: Auto
then the authentication stuff...
Protected Management Frames: Disable
Group Key Rotation Interval: 3600

Professional tab:
------------------
Set AP Isolated: No
Roaming assistant: disable
bluetooth coexistence: disable
enable IGMP snooping: enable
multicast rate: auto
preamble type: long
AMPDU RTS: enable
rts threshold: 2347
DTIM interval: 1
beacon interval: 100
enable tx bursting: enable
enable wmm: enable
enable wmm no-acknowledgement: disable
enable wmm APSD: enable
Optimize AMPDU aggregation: disable
modulation scheme: Up to MCS 11 (nitroquam/1024-qam)
airtime fairness: disable
multi-user mmo: disable
ofdma/802.11ax MU-MMO: disable
Explicit beamforming: enable
universal beamforming: enable
tx power adjustment: good.

I know most of those above are default settings... but just in case there's a tweak there that I don't know of.. Would love to know!

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My 2.4 GHz works great. Differences from your settings:

General tab:
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Disable 11b is checked
Target Wake Time: Disable
Channel bandwidth: 20 Mhz
Control Channel: 9
Extension Channel: ?
Protected Management Frames: Capable

Professional tab:
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universal beamforming: disable
tx power adjustment: performance