Recent content by andyross

How do you keep breaking them off? Can you place the router in a slightly safer location?

No. It's just very unusual. I can only guess this is similar enough to a supported model that they can do this easily?

This is weird. Why non-security updates for a device that is supposedly EOL?

Is it just me, but did the update seem faster than normal? I updated from the April update (51685?) I update "manually" from a downloaded file. It seemed to be back up and running by the time the progress bar was around 60% or so. The icon support is nice. I saw one I had tried to update was...

Looks like these updates were across most all devices. I guess they thought it was enough of a security threat and easy to update that they went ahead and did it.

I have Comcast which is rated 500/20, although should test to 600/24. On my Pixel 8, I can get into the mid-upper 400's. (and nearly the full 600/24 on a wired computer.) I do have AiProtection and many other stuff turned off, so the router is running about as basic as possible.

I think I have seen posts that they tend to get dimmer and dimmer. On my 68U, the ones that tend to be on most all of the time are dimmer than one for a port that is only occasionally used. Little hard to tell from this picture, but the port 2 LED is actually much brighter than the others.

Depending on the model, there are multiple options for the local GUI: router.asus.com www.asusrouter.com www.asusnetwork.net There was awhile where some force HTTPS list in Firefox blocked router.asus.com. The Android Firefox on my phone no longer works with router.asus.com for some reason, but...

This is a sign of wider coverage of the issues and updates. Hopefully, some of this info might trickle down a bit to tech feeds of more regular news services.

Just a note that Ars Technica has an article about the Asus vulnerabilities. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/06/high-severity-vulnerabilities-affect-a-wide-range-of-asus-router-models/

And this for download. https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC68U/FW_RT_AC68U_300438651685.zip?model=RT-AC68U

Maybe it just moved. Here is where I found it. https://www.asus.com/us/networking-iot-servers/wifi-routers/asus-wifi-routers/rtac68u/helpdesk_bios?model2Name=RTAC68U

I hope this was a joke. That activity would have no effect on such short-range transmissions.

Other than auto update not working, does this update seem to be OK?

I have auto-update disabled on mine, but it still seems to go through the motions every day around 3AM CDT. No errors though. It just says No Update Needed. I wonder if, being EOL, they moved something to a different folder that the router cannot find?