Recent content by Eidolon86

I appreciate the advice. Unfortunately, I have tried this, and have now tried overnight as well. I have initiated the RMA process and hope to have luck with another unit.

I have done so, multiple times since starting to troubleshoot, and thus far have had no luck.

Amazon.com is also quite good. I don't imagine that I will have any issues.

I purchased it though amazon.com. Thank you again for your time and all of your help.

So, I tried uploading through the web option given after booting with WPS pressed. It seemed to work, but then on reboot it simply started bootlooping again. I then tried via tftp, which indicated that it had uploaded, and the power led changed from a slow blink to solid, but upon a manual...

I did try the procedure with a static IP of 192.168.50.x and cannot ping anything. I just tried before since 192.168.50.1 is the default router IP while operating normally. 192.168.1.x allows me to at least ping it while it is in recovery mode. I did see that thread and my issue is identical to...

I am unable to connect via browser. The connection is refused.

While in recovery mode I am able to ping the router at 192.168.1.1, and it does indeed return TTL=100 instead of 64. The Asus utility continues to give its default "The wireless router is not in rescue mode." upon failure to connect. As an aside, when selecting firmware, the utility also...

Hello all. I've lurked here a while, but this is my first post. Perhaps someone might have some insight into an issue I am having. I recently purchased an Asus RT-AC86U router from Amazon. I immediately flashed the newest Merlin Firmware: 384.8_2, setup the router with OpenVPN, and then had no...