Just hooked up the asus to replace my e4200. Latest bios (205). Obs:
1. better coverage in 2.4g than the e4200 in a 2400 sq ft home
2. same bandwidth
3. better web interface
4. WORSE ping (avg of 48 compared to 24).
Haven't tried the usb thing yet.
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The asus routers don't back down when they are firmly set to 40Mhz. The intel adapters don't back down when fat channel intolerant is disabled. I have 6 networks around me (2.4GHz) that cover all channels a few times and still use 40Mhz triple stream and push 20-22MB/s over it. It's about selecting your channels to be on top of the weakest base stations (the ones that are most far away) so you interfere with each other the least. This is my spectrum in the picture below:
Just hooked up the asus to replace my e4200. Latest bios (205). Obs:
1. better coverage in 2.4g than the e4200 in a 2400 sq ft home
2. same bandwidth
3. better web interface
4. WORSE ping (avg of 48 compared to 24).
Did I miss the post where you told us what you are pinging? And if you're on wifi what your signal stats are (freq band, RSSI, surrounding traffic etc)
Sorry, using speed test (where it pings a "close" server). More details:
Using both 2.4g and 5g from 15-20' away and a variety of connections:
1. pc wired: pings ~24 on both routers
2. iphone using speedtest app pings ~24 on e4200 and 40-60 on asus
3. pc on netgear wnd4100 wireless adapter is ~24 on both.
So, my iphone has more latency w/ the asus, for reasons that escape me. Everything else is at it should be.
Sorry, using speed test (where it pings a "close" server). More details:
Using both 2.4g and 5g from 15-20' away and a variety of connections:
1. pc wired: pings ~24 on both routers
2. iphone using speedtest app pings ~24 on e4200 and 40-60 on asus
3. pc on netgear wnd4100 wireless adapter is ~24 on both.
So, my iphone has more latency w/ the asus, for reasons that escape me. Everything else is at it should be.
They either pulled it, or it hasn't been fully propagated to all mirrors yet. Just give them some time.
So there should be a new firmware soon I imagine.. the ASUS ac86u interface demo site is running 3.0.0.4.374_955
By the way, does anyone know if the netgear r7000 has an interface demo site too? I'd love to compare the two.
http://event.asus.com/2012/nw/dummy_ui/en/index.htmlyou have a link to the demo?
I've been using the AC68U as an access point with no problems with .205 firmware at all. I'm on FIOS in NYC and get insane speeds on this router. Even my neighbor two apartments down can get a great signal from it.Has anyone tried using the ac68u configured as an Access Point? How does the shipping version of firmware work in this context?
I've been using the AC68U as an access point with no problems with .205 firmware at all. I'm on FIOS in NYC and get insane speeds on this router. Even my neighbor two apartments down can get a great signal from it.
Running 3.0.0.4.374_158 which seems to be the latest. Sort of missing the 66U at this point.
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