Silentsoul
Occasional Visitor
I turned my Asus rtac86u off yesterday morning for a hard reboot. After coming back online. I noticed the 5ghz band was not broadcasting at all. (Could not even locate it with wifi scanning tools). I proceeded to reboot the device again. Same result.
I proceeded to reinstall the current Asus firmware with a hard reset using the WPS button. After reconfiguring I was presented with much the same. Did the same with the most current Merlin firmware and came up with the same result.
Tried other things such as leaving it unplugged after a hard reset for a few minutes but nothing helped. After some fiddling I can get the 5ghz to work but only on channel 149 or higher. I know some regions are restricted but 36-48 should and always has worked here in the US.
Is it possible there is an issue with the hardware that would only affect those channels?
Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
I proceeded to reinstall the current Asus firmware with a hard reset using the WPS button. After reconfiguring I was presented with much the same. Did the same with the most current Merlin firmware and came up with the same result.
Tried other things such as leaving it unplugged after a hard reset for a few minutes but nothing helped. After some fiddling I can get the 5ghz to work but only on channel 149 or higher. I know some regions are restricted but 36-48 should and always has worked here in the US.
Is it possible there is an issue with the hardware that would only affect those channels?
Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!