Recent content by brummygit

Yes, however building firewall rulesets and gateway groups isn't as quick as setting up an Asus device. I spent hours troubleshooting my Sky TV today to finally realise that it depends on a ping test to the router itself to prove it has connectivity, but policy based routing for failover had...

Well, for giggles (and out of frustration) I bought myself some hardware and built an Opnsense firewall/router. I am now using this for routing and connectivity to my primary fibre ONT plus secondary 5G backup router, with my Asus devices in AP mode as a mesh. I can confirm everything is now...

I bought myself some hardware and built an Opnsense firewall/router. Using this for routing and connectivity to my primary fibre ONT and secondary 5G backup router, with my Asus devices in AP mode i can confirm everything is now stabilised. It certainly seems to be an Asus issue, but my fix...

They appear to be present in stock firmware running in AP mode

I know, fancy wanting a stable WAN connection and the advertised Dual WAN functionality listed in the router specs :rolleyes:

That's how I am running, and previously ran with my old ISP. It's just frustrating that such basic bugs have been around for years and never fixed. My other challenge is that I want dual-WAN failover but my 5G router causes the same WAN connectivity failures as my ONT when the IP address changes...

I second that - my previous RT-AX88U and RT-AX86U models were fine with a GUI reset. It might be a placebo effect but my RT-AX88U Pros I upgraded to seem to behave better with a reset button reset so I always do both.

As a long time Asus and Merlin user I’ve recently become blighted by this issue having swapped to a fibre ISP. Any drop from the ONT causes the issue and I seem to get multiple drops per day. It may be related to the isp 8 hour dhcp leases. I have static IP on my service and configuring static...

I'm temporarily running the latest Asus stock firmware (haven't updated my signature) as I was trying to compare the behaviour, so haven't been able to try this fix. If it really is so clear cut I wonder if RMerlin could include a fix in his code.

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I found this thread whilst researching problematic WAN reconnections after failures. I only started to see these recently after moving to fibre broadband with a new ISP on connecting via an ONT - I've previously been in a double NAT situation. I'm not technical enough to work through this on my...

I'm home from my travels and will start to look into this a little more. Firstly I thought it was best to start from a known state so I have fully reset and re-installed 388.6 and then ONLY YazDHCP, email settings and your script. I can now start some better testing, but I have a couple of...

You have to connect your iPhone using a USB cable https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1050074/

Thanks for your reply. I’d only seen negative posts about this release but your post puts it into perspective. I’m in a similar situation to you and a return to stock feels like the sensible route for me. Probably my biggest challenge is that I have lots of DHCP reservations in use currently...

This thread has been very quiet. Are people using this release successfully now? I have been using Merlin, however it's time for a full reset and rebuild due to some issues and I was wondering if a return to stock might be worthwhile as I use less and less of RMerlin's additional feature set now.