I had the latest Merlin Firmware on my unit and i have an old RT-AC66U B1 with latest stock firmware on my 1º floor, the uplink is via 5ghz wifi (impossible to do an ethernet uplink) was slower on Merlin and the internet speed was also lower. With Merlin on the i mesh unit on the same spot, same...
I bought an new BE92U router for wider coverage on the ground floor of my house, i put my old RT-AC66U B1 as an mesh node, wich to some its not good, its 12 year old hardware etc, on the top floor of my house and working great, yes no wifi 6 but also not needed becasuse as you i have a scaledown...
Me personnaly? Nothing, but was one of the notable out off the box differences between stock firmware and Merlins version, don't know the reason but still is about 150 mb less used versus stock. What matters is the system works and its stable :)
So i jumped to the RT-BE92U bandwagon and this is my experience: in terms of wifi coverage it was a litle bit desappointing when comparing with my old RT-AC66U B1, In the same place allmost equal stengh signal except on the 2.4 Ghz with increased coverage, jumped to Merlin beta and all running...
Hi everibody, planning to purchase this model to replace my RT-AC66U B1. The RT-AC66U B1 on the initial setup has several ISP operator profiles, my ISP operator is Meo (Portugal). Does this model has the initial setup with the ISP operator profiles and can anyone please kindly confirm if Meo is...
Hi everibody, i have been using Merlin on my RT-AC66U B1 for a very long time, so my question is the stock firmware has the dns director option? Thanks in advance
Asus released 2025/02/14 an firmware update for the ASUS RT-AC66U B1 wich adresses UI issue in Chrome. Can't tell if Merlin will relase a fix (Problaby not). Maybe the way to go, if problem persists, is to go back to stock version of firmware
Hello everybody
First and foremost many thanks to Merlin for the years of support to the community.
I own an RT-AC66U B1 for almost 3 years and its replacing the ISP router that dates from 2018 (Thomson Brand with no 5Ghz and last firmware update i belive dates 2020 or 2022).
To put in...