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you might be onto something there :¬) DOH! DOH! ill go try UPDATE! - OK i feel the most stupid i have felt in a long while :¬) you were right it was last-pass doing its thing Cant believe how many time i had to cut paste vpn info into it today must bae way over 100 Cant use VPN with PIA...

Product ID RT-AC5300 Signature Version 1.150 Firmware Version 380.65_2 The router's current firmware is the latest version. Might just be a bug but it defaults (and reverts back to) to the routers admin and password meaning........... Because of this I keep accidentally broadcasting my...

sounds like they didn't comply to the rules in the 1st firmware we both got and had to enforce it in later firmwares - sux but what do I know I'm an old twitfaced Loonie :¬) do you remember the firmware version that worked ? maybe some kind person might have it so we can reload and check it ?

I might have found out why in UK I was getting 2-20 mins wait for ASUS_5-2 (DFS) QUOTE FROM PDF ... "on the channels in the 5.6GHz to 5.65GHz range, the device (i.e. Access Point) must wait 10 minutes before commencing RF transmissions! The table below (taken from Annex D of the EN 301 893...

A few of us have found this.... If asus-5-2 is on auto channel it take 5 to 10 mins to show up so leave the config alone till it shows If you hardcode the channel to say.... 116 it will take 2 to 5 mins to show Some one stated in other 5300 threads...it is because it has to chech this upper band...

Bunged ya some dosh :¬) with thanks :¬)

When I get new devices I go straight to web sites for drivers and updates ignoring the media in the boxes - but I still think I booted it OOTB to make sure it was not dead and I'm sure I saw ASUS-5-2 come up fast maybe they fixed a ASUS_5-2 frequency scanning bug in later firmware's and got a...

Ahh ok could be FW bug or fix then - but I can live with 2-3 mins for ASUS_G-2 to lock onto channels 100 or 132 very happy with router so far (touch wood)

Thank you for that explanation it was getting me down thinkin I had defective hardware :¬)

I have this too and I have found ASUS_5G-2 takes 5- 20 mins to show up in any SSID scanning app/device IF you leave it on auto channel detection I tested with windows phone,surface,3pc's and 2 Xboxes all show the same time delay It takes 1-2 minute to show up if you assign it a channel I use...

Thanks for the info both of you :¬) appreciated I actually did it to stop people auto connecting to wifi with their phone as they walk by my home I would see a continuous stream of attempted connections popping up on my pc network tab and it was annoying me hehehe daddy2phone bog47bestpbone...

so you see nothing in the site survey passive or active :¬) Model RT-AC5300 Firmware Version 380.59_beta2-gda78c52 Firmware Build Sat Apr 30 20:23:20 UTC 2016 merlin@da78c52 Bootloader (CFE) 1.0.4.0 Thanks for very nice firmware :¬)

I get the same thing I purchased this yesterday I have tried 4 different firmwares (including 9.0.0 betas and merlin's) all with factory resets and its the same 5-20 min wait when on auto/auto/auto Its a bit quicker if you force ASUS_5G-2 to fixed channel like 100 But even then its 1-2 minutes...