Recent content by gpz1100

Easier said than done. Said device is in a remote location.

Anyone using the the rt-ac68u as a media extender? Does this version fix the slow speeds - supposedly related to wpa? ref https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac68u-in-media-bridge-mode-wont-go-faster-than-288-9-mbps-main-router-ax-88u-rssi-ac-68u-is-a-strong-35dbm.74381/

Impressive! Running the latest beta (2022-08) on a r6700 that had it's board id modded to r7000 and cfe flashed from the xwrt thread. Using device as media extender. Connecting to a tplink eap670 AP which has ssid security set to wpa2 & wpa3 mixed mode. Xwrt on same device was having slow...

Have you priced out an orbi kit lately? Some of their offerings are $600-1000+, and still locked down with the garbage firmware.

I think the more advanced users will at some point have to rip off the bandaid and move to a router/firewall that allows you more control - ie *sense, unfi, omada, etc. For the first you will need to either get one of the netgate devices or run your own on a white box. There is some learning...

Just open both in separate tabs and go down the settings list.

Tested this theory. Slow downs experienced when AP SSID set to wpa2/wpa3-personal as below. For WPA-personal, there's also options for wpa/wpa2-psk, wpa-psk, wpa2-psk. Dropping it down to wpa2-psk fixed the speed issue with more current firmwares (386 branch). However, in performance...

The other end is an AP (tplink eap670 to be exact). No changes were made to any settings on it. The only difference with the asus unit was flashing different firmware (either freshtomaro or john's fw). From a factory reset state, the asus unit is put into media bridge mode where the only...

@RMerlin Any thoughts on why the newer fw (ie 386.12_4) is seeing a slow down when in media bridge mode compared to older fw's?

I think the "discontinued" caught my attention. Didn't even know there was a v2+ of this thing. My apologies.

Or add 'em to the pile of wrt54gs's I have :)

That's amazon for you. I take most amazon reviews with a grain (or kilo) of salt. Hard to tell which device the review actually applies to. The reviewer(s) also failed to indicate which firmware version they were using and whether devices were in standalone mode or adopted to the omada...

I finally dumped the rt-ac68u as AP after a number of years. Have a number of ax200/201/210/211 clients around the house. Wanted better wifi performance. Tried the ax-88u pro as it supports vlans. The implementation was extremely poor, clunky. Returned it. Got a EAP670 for $100 less which...

Where are you turning this off? On the rt configured in media bridge mode? I'm using a rt-ac68u in media bridge mode to a EAP670. All testing below done using iperf3 on local lan with server running on a wired gigabit connection. With the latest (as of 20231209) asus merlin firmware, speeds...

After a few days with the AP, i'm seeing speeds upwards of gigabit (my line limit) if the antenna is properly placed and using 160 mhz channels. The firewall pc has one 2.5gb port but that's in use right now. Eventually I'll reshuffle things when I get pfsense installed. Testing outside, 150'...