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If power cycle router does not solve your problem, then you may want to do a factory reset via the UI and configure everything from beginning. I did this when I faced issues in the past. So far after doing dirty update I do not see any issue yet. I only did a power cycle after installing the...

Do you use WOL function via the router UI? I am referring specifically to this. Also, when the RAM usage inching up to high 80%, I did encountered the router UI cannot be accessed. However, the router still doing the usual jobs, if not logging into router UI I won't know UI issue. Power cycle...

Over months in different versions of both Asus or Merlin FW versions, the WOL can fail when RAM usage is in the 80%+ range. Power cycling the router solve the problem, but it will come back again and again when RAM usage slowly moved up to >80%. Typically it happened after >83-85% RAM usage.

FYI, I also set the other WiFi options to fixed option other than fixed channel, such that the router will not keep on scanning and trying to find other 'optimal' options.

WiFi drop out issue had been around since quite sometime ago, not something new. I first discovered it on 68U after updating to a new stock FW. Slowly I figured out the problem was due to WiFi channel changed at router end. Ever since I fixed the WiFi channel I never encounter such issue in...

You may want to try this and see if it works for you. It is just my personal experience on RT-AC68U and RT-AC86U. I had wifi dropout issue many months ago with Asus stock FW, it happened after certain FW updates. I fixed it by changing the wifi channel from 'auto' to a fixed channel. Asus FW...