Asus firmware draining phones battery

[win465]

I have recently realized that Asus recent firmware is draining my battery. I have a Nexus 6 that never had draining issues before. Merlins firmware is the only firmware I can use without draining my phone battery. Does anyone else have this issue?

 

[drabisan]

Do you use ipv6 in your LAN?

 

[hggomes]

RT-AC87U? 5GHZ band?

 

[win465]

RT-AC87U? 5GHZ band?

Yes

 

[win465]

Do you use ipv6 in your LAN?

Nope

 

[hggomes]

That issue will be solved soon, it's related with QTN DTIM settings.

PS: Next time please be more detailed about your device, we cannot guess.

 

[win465]

That issue will be solved soon, it's related with QTN DTIM settings.

PS: Next time please be more detailed about your device, we cannot guess.

Sorry, forgot to mention it.

 

[win465]

@RMerlin Do you have any contacts at Asus that you can maybe report the battery drain bug?

 

[RMerlin]

@RMerlin Do you have any contacts at Asus that you can maybe report the battery drain bug?

I can't report anything there since I can't observe the issue myself. So nothing tells me that the issue is really with the router itself.

 

[Arrow]

I'm seeing this problem with an Iphone 5S and an RT-AC3200 with firmware 3.0.0.4.378_7838

Is there a setting in the router I can change to address this problem?

 

[win465]

I'm seeing this problem with an Iphone 5S and an RT-AC3200 with firmware 3.0.0.4.378_7838

Is there a setting in the router I can change to address this problem?

We have to wait for Asus to fix it

 

[cc666]

We have to wait for Asus to fix it

Believe me on this one DDWRT firmware is the only thing that fixes it.
Even the very latest beta release does not fix it.

CC

 

[win465]

Still experiencing battery drain issues on RT-AC87U_3.0.0.4_378_8248

 

[win465]

Believe me on this one DDWRT firmware is the only thing that fixes it.
Even the very latest beta release does not fix it.

CC

Do you know what the issue is that is causing this battery drain?

 

[sfx2000]

Do you know what the issue is that is causing this battery drain?

According to hggomes - "That issue will be solved soon, it's related with QTN DTIM settings."​

DTIM affects device sleep time, so perhaps QTN is trying to reduce dropouts in the 5GHz band by reducing the DTIM value.

 

[win465]

According to hggomes - "That issue will be solved soon, it's related with QTN DTIM settings."​

DTIM affects device sleep time, so perhaps QTN is trying to reduce dropouts in the 5GHz band by reducing the DTIM value.

Do you have the source for this?

 

[sfx2000]

Do you have the source for this?

Source for what?

@hggomes - check with him - he's the one that suggested that QTN has a DTIM issue

DTIM affects timing of the 802.11 air interface - longer the value, longer devices can sleep - and I was thinking, perhaps QTN has reduced this value as perhaps they're thinking that devices are losing touch with the AP...

More info here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_traffic_indication_message

 

[win465]

Source for what?

@hggomes - check with him - he's the one that suggested that QTN has a DTIM issue

DTIM affects timing of the 802.11 air interface - longer the value, longer devices can sleep - and I was thinking, perhaps QTN has reduced this value as perhaps they're thinking that devices are losing touch with the AP...

More info here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_traffic_indication_message

Thank you