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I have an Asus AX88U Pro as the sole router for our home network. No AiMesh nodes. There are about 50 devices connected, ranging from computers and phones to IoT / smart home devices. This is a recent hardware upgrade from an AX88U. I installed Merlin after initial setup, fresh out of the...

I was honestly considering doing this anyway, but I had a question about backing up and restoring configurations. Both the AX88U and AX88U Pro are on the same version of the firmware (3004_388.5). I'm using the IPSec VPN right now with a shared secret, no certificates, and the Dynamic DNS as...

I have an ASUS AX88U acting as the main router and an AC68U (aka 1900P) as an AiMesh node. I can't do wired backhaul in this place, and the wireless performance drags when the devices connect to the older AP. Since the AC68U is pretty old, it can only use 5 GHz as the backhaul and offer 2.4...

I have an Asus AX88U with build 382.2_2. When I set a MAC address of a computer and use the "Reject" option, then save changes, the entire Wi-Fi interface is torn down and restarted. This impacts ALL devices on the network. Adding devices to a MAC filter list—especially when this is a "black...

The main website was updated recently, and now it looks like one of those squatted / parked domains designed to attract keyword searches. I had to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to find that it was updated on Sunday, November 20. Before...

Yes - the upnp config file last refreshed at 4AM on Sunday, which is my scheduled reboot time.

I seem to be having some issue with UPnP for a couple of builds now. I have an AX88U running firmware 388.1, production build. The page "Advanced_VirtualServer_Content.asp" shows several applications with static port definitions that I set. One application on my Mac has an option to...

This was a great article. One of the suggested features to check — automatic channel selection — was enabled on my AX88U. I was having intermittent severe latency on the 2.4GHz channel: we're talking several seconds where packets would not go through, followed by a flood of extremely late...

Has anyone else seen this behavior on their routers with AsusWRT Merlin? What about the stock firmware?

I've been logged out for inactivity from the router console while performing some of the following non-exhaustive list of actions on the main index page: Reviewing devices in the Client Status sidebar (after clicking the "Clients" button); Clicking the 'Refresh' button in the Client Status...

The problem comes back in the daytime. I am not seeing the issue on Ethernet, only Wi-Fi... and only from an iOS device. Not from a computer on Wi-Fi. If I set the ping interval shorter than 1.0 seconds on the iPhone (i.e. every 0.25 seconds), then the ping times are wildly erratic. If I set...

I got similar results pinging facebook.com, so it isn't just an "Apfelsach." Pinging the IP makes no difference. The ping utility performs the DNS lookup once at the beginning and uses the IP address going forward (until you ctrl-C to stop it). Anyway the problem went away by the evening...

Unsure, didn't test that far. Problem went away this evening. I found that QoS was still enabled (it was on briefly for monitoring) so I just turned it off. Also, I didn't create a duplicate post / thread; I merely replied to another post for the 368.8 release in the Merlin subforum. That...

My AX88U (386.8) has some new strange issue where ping times will slowly escalate from ~30ms all the way up to ~300ms, then suddenly fall back to normal. This repeats every 10 seconds like clockwork. I'm also seeing issues with streaming video services on the TV that will randomly drop to the...

My AX88U has some new strange issue where ping times will slowly escalate from ~30ms all the way up to ~300ms, then suddenly fall back to normal. This repeats every 10 seconds like clockwork. I'm also seeing issues with streaming video services on the TV that will randomly drop to the worst...