gt-ac5300

Has anyone tried the AsusWRT Merlin firmware for RT-AC5300 on the GT-AC5300 ? I want to know if it will work, or if/what gets broken, etc? Thanks in advance! Really hope Merlin will support the GT-AC5300 in the future!

I am replacing an ASUS RT-AC56U (3.0.0.4.382_50010-gb0c6a12) with an ASUS GT-AC5300. The AC56U is used as an OpenVPN server. How do migrate the OpenVPN to the AC5300 so clients can connect to it once it is configured? Additionally, I’d love to just save the RT-AC56U settings and restore them...

Have any of you FORUM Gurus looked at using Entware on the ac-gt5300 router? After trying in install Entware on usb media, with errors; Found that Asus has "/opt" defined in the stock code!@#! Dang what a PITA. Is it possible to change the Entware install path or have Entware been hard coded...

@RMerlin Hi, I bought the above mentioned Router (ROG/GT-AC5300). But I havn't seen that this device has no VPN integrated. Therefore I would like to ask if it would be possible to flash the router with "Asuswert-Merlin" and get VPN support??? I am not sure if there is a special reason not to...

I recently purchased a refurbished GT-AC5300 as my primary wireless router, and while it has impressive OTA bandwidth, it's one peculiar piece of hardware! From the get-go it was a bee's nest of problems. The first headache was when I changed username and password during the initial setup which...

I've found support for the RT-AC5300; don't know if that works with the GT due to the different CPU and such. I was also warned at Micro Center that there will be issues with firmware upon setup or flashing. Should I just return the sucker?

I'm not sure if anyone here is still interested in or uses ASUS' Smart Connect feature on their newer dual and tri band routers. If so, I've found all of the hidden settings for this feature (settings not accessible in the GUI) and, for the most part, have figured out how to 100% customize it...