Hello, I had recently updated to the 386.4 firmware. I was still running 384.17 or 384.18, can't remember which and I had done a dirty upgrade. Everything was fine, but then some time later the internet stopped working, and reboots did not help. So I set aside time to to a factory reset and followed a guide here on the forums about doing the reboots, unplugging, formatting jffs partition etc and manually reconfigured everything again. Everything ran ok for about a week, then the 2.4ghz radio stopped working. Nothing unusual showed up in the router, it showed channel 1 instead of 0 as some other users that have had issues posted. A reboot seems to have fixed it for now. To be clear, I have never had to do a reboot on this router unless I'm doing firmware upgrades.
After reading some forums posts, it seems that while when I bought this router in 2018 it was considered a favorite at the time, it seems that now the router has a bad reputation of failures, particularly failing 2.4ghz radios. From what I gather the 386 codebase has introduced some issues for this router model, particularly temperatures have increased, I know mine increased about 10 degrees for the cpu.
If the 2.4ghz radio goes out again, would it be best to stay on the outdated 384 codebase? Should I just assume that the 2.4ghz radio was going to start having issues/failing eventually and the new firmware possibly accelerated the timeline? The AX86U seems like a viable upgrade however it seems that it also has hardware issues. I was hoping not needing to upgrade for some time.
After reading some forums posts, it seems that while when I bought this router in 2018 it was considered a favorite at the time, it seems that now the router has a bad reputation of failures, particularly failing 2.4ghz radios. From what I gather the 386 codebase has introduced some issues for this router model, particularly temperatures have increased, I know mine increased about 10 degrees for the cpu.
If the 2.4ghz radio goes out again, would it be best to stay on the outdated 384 codebase? Should I just assume that the 2.4ghz radio was going to start having issues/failing eventually and the new firmware possibly accelerated the timeline? The AX86U seems like a viable upgrade however it seems that it also has hardware issues. I was hoping not needing to upgrade for some time.