Recent content by joe012594

That's the thing though. The router, even though the Ethernet ports stopped working, still functioned normally. It only died when I tried downgrading the firmware to the prior version.

Yep. Went to the GT-AC5300 support page and downloaded the previous firmware file.

In need of some help. A couple of months ago, a storm came through the area and lightning struck real close to the house. I had the GT-AC5300 in a closet on the exterior wall of the house where all of the coax and Ethernet cables come in. When the lightning struck, power went down for a split...

But the RT has not, which is what caused the issue and what this thread is about. My *RT* AC5300 is bricked because I made modifications to the CFE before ASUS pushed out firmware these past 2-3 years that encrypted them going forward. The RT's CFE was completely modifiable in the beginning and...

Unfortunately, I bricked it shortly after the OP. I found the original CFE on my desktop from my router when I started making those changes but it was from back in 2015 before ASUS started encrypting CFEs but my AC5300 was updated to the latest firmware that encrypts the CFE. I applied the CFE...

Hi all! I'm in desperate need of help. We're having major storms roll through the area right now and my GT-AC5300 got zapped by a lightning strike somehow and it fried the WAN port as well as LAN ports 1-6. 7 and 8 are oddly just fine. But we're without internet right now and I was gonna swap to...

Right. But the router will still have to handle which band (in the USA) to assign 80MHz clients, UNII-1 or 3, beings they’re separate bands and 160MHz is only accomplished via aggregation. So, it may be able to behave like a triband router with 80MHz clients, in a sense.

Maybe someone can answer this question. Obviously, for 160MHz capable clients, this router will be dual band. What about traditional 80MHz wide clients? Would this behave as a triband router and assign clients to the lower and upper portions of the 5GHz band based on traditional triband Smart...

Honestly, the “dead spider” is more appealing to me than that weird beetle design Netgear started using or the partial triangle body shape D-Link went with. When you’re fitting that many external antennas on a router, design matters. Doesn’t feel like that mattered with other manufacturers. ASUS...

I own most of the modern 802.11ac ASUS routers. You could call me a collector, I suppose. I didn’t mind the 87U, TBH. I had no issues with it. It’s all a matter of personal opinion. Honestly, I admire a large company like ASUS keeping faith with a small brand and trying to boost them up when...

Wasn’t until recently that actual pictures of the unit surfaced though. Trust me, I’ve kept a close eye on it since the entry was made in high anticipation for this model to hit the market. Now we just need a launch date and I will be satisfied.