and nevertheless I get different behavior out of two different AC5300 units with the exact same clients. In fact I wasn't reporting client behavior, I was reporting behavior of the router. I understand you point but reject the simplicity of your view point.
maybe. I get the same behavior and I'm not using the Asus box to provide DHCP services. It's failing to show clients that are wirelessly connected to it as wireless devices. Not sure how DHCP would even play a role in this as it's not layer 1 aware.
I continued to play around with settings etc. last night. I noticed that lots of folks were reporting issues with 2.4 band so I disabled it on the unit that couldn't display status, well it started displaying status. So I re-enabled 2.4, it continued displaying status. There is still an...
RT-AC5300 issue.
I have two of these that I just upgraded to 384.4. One of them won't display status on the Network Map page and one will display it just fine. None of the possible status pages load. I've rebooted several times including several power off/power on reboots.
Thoughts?
I'm running three of the AC7260 cards in three completely different laptops across two different AC5300 routers with no issues at the moment. When I installed the first router one of my laptops would negotiate a 866mbps link speed but could only achieve 54mbps in throughput, a driver update...
Make sure that your devices didn't register the "new" network as a public network. If they did then all of the native "sharing" capabilities, on your windows devices in particular, are turned off.