Recent content by Metazoan

Certainly. My mistake with the AX86U was assuming that I'd have an experience similar to the one I had with the AC56U it replaced. The latter did all I asked and rarely needed attention. I rebooted it only after updates and when I wanted to, not needed to. Regretfully, the AX86U has not...

Thanks for the comments. I will definitely consider the UDR7 as the successor to my AX86U. Luckily, I can also source UniFi gear locally. I understand some products are sold out often on their site.

This is a neophyte's question, but -- what's UniFi's reputation for firmware support, in terms of tenure and quality? Truly a step above the consumer-grade stuff from ASUS?

Well, to Samsung's credit, they do stand behind their product, honor their warranty, and the process is smooth. Support is responsive, and chatty, maybe even too much so, in sending both email and text updates every step of the process. Not one of those situations where tickets disappear into...

Well, in the end, the attempt to revive the drives using the Disk Management tool in Windows, or the CLI Diskpart tool both failed. Forced a full format in Diskpart with the override flag, but instead of failing instantly, it took about 45 minutes to perform the whole process, then gave an...

I've run into a very peculiar problem with a couple of Samsung flash drives that were formatted by, and used with an AX86U for file sharing. Both were formatted in FAT, via the Web GUI, by the stock firmware. Tried Merlin, but reverted back to stock, and then found one drive started to act...

As someone in the same boat, this news just cements my move toward putting Asus on my personal EOL list. My AC model was great, and supported for a long time, but can't say the same for my AX, in any respect. Also note the gimped AX86S is suspiciously absent from the list. Add insult to injury?

Some time after 3.004.382, Asus' firmware, and its handling of the file server function, turned to unreliable mush. I had an AC56U, with 256MB of memory, that never missed a beat transferring small (2GB or less) files repeatedly to USB flash drives attached to its port. And rarely had to be...

How long do these disruptions last? Do they resolve themselves without intervention on your part? I've encountered similar behavior, where established connections, like a media stream, will continue uninterrupted, while new queries, like trying to connect to a website, fail. They last for...

Ditto. I never had any issues with the file share feature on my AC56U up to, and including the 382 branch. It had what, 256MB of RAM, a quarter of the AX86U? And never ran close to maxing that out, under the same usage (10 clients, no VPN, mostly default settings). With the AX86U, and the...

Yup, I've found the experience with this long-standing feature to be disappointing as well. It's frustrating that my 2013 vintage Asus AC router with 256MB of memory was trouble-free, and performed better than a 2021 vintage AX-68U with four times the memory in this respect. Sure, it does more...

I wouldn't trust the USB ports for anything more than occasional light duty. Against expectation, I've had a disappointing experience with that feature on my AX86U, compared to previous experience with an AC56U. With the latter, up to its last 382 firmware, I had years of trouble-free usage...

Thanks, since that's not an issue, I can feel more comfortable knowing a downgrade isn't a hassle. I suspect the odd issues I've experienced may go deeper than the router, and am running out of ideas, so I will post about that separately in an appropriate place. I've made the same...

Dumb question -- are there any hurdles preventing downgrading from 388 back to 386? I seem to recall from my old AC model that some big change made it a hassle to try go from 384 down to 382 (or something like that; I don't recall the exact version numbers). Been having some odd issues with my...

Shoot, I've got an old iPod touch as well, but it sits in a drawer. I'll keep that in mind if I balks on the occasions I power it on to see if it still works. No issues since USB 2.0 mode, so I'll assume it's just less flaky than 3.0 mode. I understand that some configuration changes result...