Bricked RT-AC88U

[Col8eral]

My AC88U has been running perfectly for many months and then yesterday it shut down. The LAN and WPS lights are lit only faintly. if I reboot it goes to the same state. I have tried pressing the reset. I have long pressed the reset during power on and ive tried long pressing the wps during pwr on. No effect.

Any thoughts. Am I looking at an expensive paperweight now!

 

[Crazy]

Have you tried a different power supply with the same spec as the original?

 

[OzarkEdge]

My AC88U has been running perfectly for many months and then yesterday it shut down. The LAN and WPS lights are lit only faintly. if I reboot it goes to the same state. I have tried pressing the reset. I have long pressed the reset during power on and ive tried long pressing the wps during pwr on. No effect.

Any thoughts. Am I looking at an expensive paperweight now!

I had a similar experience yesterday.
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/one-of-my-rt-ac86us-died-and-shipped-to-asus.62318/unread

OE

 

[Col8eral]

Have you tried a different power supply with the same spec as the original?

yes, tried another ASUS pwr supply but no change

 

[L&LD]

Time to RMA or return/exchange it at the store purchased.

Suggest considering a newer router if a refund is offered such as the RT-AX88U or the RT-AC86U if the budget is too tight.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Suggest considering a newer router if a refund is offered

Yes except don't get a Asus router why borrow trouble. Seems it's getting harder and harder to find a decent home router with firmware that works.

@L&LD are you a SHILL for Asus. There is nothing special or different with there garbage apposed to others. You talk a lot of BS about certain ways to reset jumping people through a bunch of hoops and it's no better then any standard reset method. All your advise is HOG WASH as far as resetting a router. Pressing and holding the reset button is all thats is needed anything more does nothing different period.

 

[L&LD]

@Kal-EL, no, I'm not a shill for anyone. Asus + RMerlin firmware is head and shoulders above any other consumer router currently available and I am glad to have discovered them through these forums so many years ago.

The suggestions I offer are not my own (at least not the majority of them). They have been collected throughout the years on these very forums. Some from members that are still active today, just as you and I still are here. I just happen to list all of them at a single time to try and help others with a single post/link.

Glad you don't need to use anything I've suggested so far. But there are others that would disagree strongly with your un-requested and very narrow-minded opinion of their worth, not for me, but for their original posters. Some of these suggestions, for instance, are from RMerlin himself.

These suggestions are not 'common knowledge' nor have I found them anywhere else as I present them.

You may know a superior method(s) to get a network to a known/good state. Please share it if you do.

Otherwise, feel free to privately PM others who feel as you do. If you really must get it out of your system, that is.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

@ L&LD Fair enough I still think it's mostly just smoke and mirrors.

 

[L&LD]

@Kal-EL it may be all just smoke and mirrors. But if it makes us believe that the network is functional again, as we want to use it, I'm in too.

 

[martinr]

@Kal-EL it may be all just smoke and mirrors. But if it makes us believe that the network is functional again, as we want to use it, I'm in too.

Tell you what: when I refer people in future to your resources at

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac86u-factory-reset.56972/#post-496275

I’m definitely going to call it the L&LD Smoke and Mirror Show.

 

[royarcher]

Tell you what: when I refer people in future to your resources at

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac86u-factory-reset.56972/#post-496275

I’m definitely going to call it the L&LD Smoke and Mirror Show.

I hate to get between a good old ,, disagreement,, but what about the guy with the bricked router? This did start out as his post

 

[L&LD]

@royarcher, see post 5.

 

[OzarkEdge]

I hate to get between a good old ,, disagreement,, but what about the guy with the bricked router? This did start out as his post

See post #1. His router is dead!

OE

 

[royarcher]

See post #1. His router is dead!

OE

Pity about that I hate to see an RT AC 88 U go down it reminds me of the inevitable demise of mine

 

[royarcher]

@royarcher, see post 5.

I known I just wanted to get in my 2 cents

 

[Col8eral]

This thing is still bricked. If I pwr it up the LAN and WPS lights are partially illuminated. If i press te restet button while pwr is on nothing happens. I have also tried pressing and holding resent while pwr off, then pwr on holding a few seconds and releasing> Still nothing.

I have had it a few years so im guessing its out of warranty

 

[OzarkEdge]

This thing is still bricked. If I pwr it up the LAN and WPS lights are partially illuminated. If i press te restet button while pwr is on nothing happens. I have also tried pressing and holding resent while pwr off, then pwr on holding a few seconds and releasing> Still nothing.

I have had it a few years so im guessing its out of warranty

If you are not sure, call ASUS Support and ask them. But if it's been two years, I'd shop for a new router.

OE