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I am using 3rd-party FW's on my routers/bridges, so OEM EOL is generally not a significant factor.

I am planning to get a AC3200 and thus would like to know if there are particular hardware versions that would be worth aiming for.

I'm looking for comparative info on the different hardware versions of the Asus RT-AC3200 -- ideally along the line of the comparison of the RT-AC68/RT-1900 hardware versions in this thread https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac68u-rt-ac68p-rt-ac1900-rt-ac1900p.35759/. TIA.

Is there any info on the significant changes between different hardware revisions of the AC3200? (I am having in mind some comparative info along the line of the attached comparison between different versions of the RT-AC68).

I have the same good experience with FreshTomato 2019.2 on my RT-AC68P.

380.70 had worked well for me for a good stretch of time, then at the end of last month I had a series of lost connectivity incidents (https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac68u-in-media-bridge-mode-losing-connection-to-main-router.48581/page-4#post-486237) plus a few nightly "auto" reboots. I...

Well, I spoke a bit too soon -- I had 3 incidents of lost Internet connectivity this past weekend with 380.70 (https://www.snbforums.com/threads/work-around-fix-for-wireless-bridge-losing-connection-every-24hrs.28061/page-3#post-485476), so I've decided to give the newly released FreshTomato...

I now have had three incidents of lost connection to the main router (hence also to the Internet) using 380.70. One incident required a reboot to restore connectivity, the other two incident connectivity came back by itself after ~3-5 minutes.

Asus-Merlin 380.70 is dates ~ 04/2018, I am guessing Asus stock FW 3004.380.7743 is around the same time-frame.

My RT-AC68P Media Bridge does not have this issue when running the stock FW 3004.380.7743, Asus-Merlin 380.70, or FreshTomato 2019.1.015-beta.

Has anyone tried the latest release 384.10?

See the last post of this thread: http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-365042/wan-port-dead-how-to-change-and-still-have-wireless-function

I tried out 384.8.2, my Media Bridge lost its connection to the main router after about 12 hours, so back to 380.70 again.

Here is another potential source for old FW versions: https://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=asus+rt-ac68u.

FWIW, I've been using Merlin 380.70 on my RT-AC68P (configured as a Media Bridge) for a month now without incident of loss of connectivity. Prior to that, I had used stock 3.0.0.4.380.7743 for about a week, also without issue.