I'm using a AC66U_B1 for about 2 years now I guess, and I was verry pleased with this router so far.
I tried Merlin firmware in the beginning, but it seemed that I had little more wifi reach in and outside my house when using the stock Asus firmware. So I flashed back to the orriginal firmware.
Lately I was beginning to get some annoying connection drops on my WIFI with the orriginal (up-to-date) firmware. Instead of going back to factory settings. I wanted to give AsusWRT-Merlin another shot.
So I reverted back to factory settings using the "initialize" option. And loaded the latest AsusWRT-Merlin firmware (the AC68U version as reccomended) after that. Which seemed to work quite well in the beginning (still having less WIFI reach than with the orriginal firmware?) But I'm actually like the diversaty of this firmware to be able to change tables and input, so far! Something which was quite anoying in the orriginal firmware.
I configured the router manually after loading Merlin, so didn't load anny settings of the orriginal firmware. Only configured standard settings at that point, like: passwords/ guest network/ manually assigned IP adresses and set up MAC filtering for accepting incomming connections, to keep things as simple and clear in the beginning, which should make it easier looking for the problem.
It seemed it worked the first day, being able to listen radio from my echo dot for example without too manny interruptions.
But now, a few days later the internet connection keeps dropping on the wireless connected devices. Like on the mentioned echo dots (interupting interradio constantly) but also being not able to surf on the internet with my mobile phones (pages stop loading halfway). It seemes the internet connection drops almost every 30/60 seconds, which is really annoying.
This while the WIFI connection itself keeps displaying full strength of it's connection, and not seem to be falling away or disconnecting.
The wired connected devices like my laptop, NAS and Steam Link doesn't seem to have this problem! So it doesn't seem to be connection drops from my modem/ISP, as far as I can figure out from now it's only concerning the wireless connected devices! So I guess it should have something to do with wireless interfereces, wireless radio or wireless settings?
I've tried restarting the router a couple of times, but the problems still returns.
I tried Merlin firmware in the beginning, but it seemed that I had little more wifi reach in and outside my house when using the stock Asus firmware. So I flashed back to the orriginal firmware.
Lately I was beginning to get some annoying connection drops on my WIFI with the orriginal (up-to-date) firmware. Instead of going back to factory settings. I wanted to give AsusWRT-Merlin another shot.
So I reverted back to factory settings using the "initialize" option. And loaded the latest AsusWRT-Merlin firmware (the AC68U version as reccomended) after that. Which seemed to work quite well in the beginning (still having less WIFI reach than with the orriginal firmware?) But I'm actually like the diversaty of this firmware to be able to change tables and input, so far! Something which was quite anoying in the orriginal firmware.
I configured the router manually after loading Merlin, so didn't load anny settings of the orriginal firmware. Only configured standard settings at that point, like: passwords/ guest network/ manually assigned IP adresses and set up MAC filtering for accepting incomming connections, to keep things as simple and clear in the beginning, which should make it easier looking for the problem.
It seemed it worked the first day, being able to listen radio from my echo dot for example without too manny interruptions.
But now, a few days later the internet connection keeps dropping on the wireless connected devices. Like on the mentioned echo dots (interupting interradio constantly) but also being not able to surf on the internet with my mobile phones (pages stop loading halfway). It seemes the internet connection drops almost every 30/60 seconds, which is really annoying.
This while the WIFI connection itself keeps displaying full strength of it's connection, and not seem to be falling away or disconnecting.
The wired connected devices like my laptop, NAS and Steam Link doesn't seem to have this problem! So it doesn't seem to be connection drops from my modem/ISP, as far as I can figure out from now it's only concerning the wireless connected devices! So I guess it should have something to do with wireless interfereces, wireless radio or wireless settings?
I've tried restarting the router a couple of times, but the problems still returns.