Experienced sysadmin here - I'm running the latest Merlin 380.64_2 on the above router, but experienced disconnections in the Christmas week (19th December thru to Friday 23rd) WAN dropouts started as an annoyance and then every 15 minutes or sooner.
I am on FTTP here in NZ, the ONT (optical network terminator/termination) is in my loungeroom, no issues on 200/200 up/down Mb/s fibre for nearly a year, free upgrade to 1Gb/s down and 500 Mb/s up.... all good for a couple of months.
200/200 Mb/s i was using my old Fritzbox 7390 - solid, no issues. Once the gigabit plan happened, Fritz could only do 278/280 Mb/s down, but was fine with the increased upload speed and speedtest on the flash based site clocked me at 430Mb/s up. Sweet.
So i bought the Asus after a lot of research.
Anyway - WAN dropouts started happening after 2-3 months.
I googled that and others have had that too.
Issue is i need to be available 24/7 when i'm on call. Which is now.
Before Christmas i was getting WAN dropouts every 15 minutes.
It went away.
Same thing happened tonight.
Any thoughts?
I increased the PPP echo from 6 to 10, changed the error detection from 10 to 20.
No WAN restarts since.
Issue is though is that the WAN dropouts also happened on my old router and another more powerful enterprise router i have (using pfSense) - with pretty much default settings during the same Christmas period, pointing to an issue either with the ONT or where the fibre terminates.
Thoughts?
thanks in advance
peter
I am on FTTP here in NZ, the ONT (optical network terminator/termination) is in my loungeroom, no issues on 200/200 up/down Mb/s fibre for nearly a year, free upgrade to 1Gb/s down and 500 Mb/s up.... all good for a couple of months.
200/200 Mb/s i was using my old Fritzbox 7390 - solid, no issues. Once the gigabit plan happened, Fritz could only do 278/280 Mb/s down, but was fine with the increased upload speed and speedtest on the flash based site clocked me at 430Mb/s up. Sweet.
So i bought the Asus after a lot of research.
Anyway - WAN dropouts started happening after 2-3 months.
I googled that and others have had that too.
Issue is i need to be available 24/7 when i'm on call. Which is now.
Before Christmas i was getting WAN dropouts every 15 minutes.
It went away.
Same thing happened tonight.
Any thoughts?
I increased the PPP echo from 6 to 10, changed the error detection from 10 to 20.
No WAN restarts since.
Issue is though is that the WAN dropouts also happened on my old router and another more powerful enterprise router i have (using pfSense) - with pretty much default settings during the same Christmas period, pointing to an issue either with the ONT or where the fibre terminates.
Thoughts?
thanks in advance
peter
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