ASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router Reviewed

[mrcom]

Oh really ? .116 is a beta and it doesn't start with 9.

Hi i know of an official beta posted on the asus support page and it`s number is 3.1.0.3.90 the one with some usb fix, so i concluded that those numbered with 9. is of the same nature as it has that 1 after the first number and it seems to indicate beta, just not an official beta.

 

[AnthonyArmato]

That beta is also from February.

And speaking of betas, I'm surprised a new one hasn't come out recently.

 

[RMerlin]

There's a 9.1.0.3.125 floating around. Odd version number, I suspect that build might be for some specific countries. I only compared the webpages with those from build 116, and there's quite some changes there. I didn't dare flashing my router with it however, as I got the link from some russian forum where I can't understand anything - all I can understand is there's a download link there from which I can get this file, with no idea if people are saying it's a router-bricker, or the best firmware ever released yet

The link can be found on this thread: http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=14:56360-24

 

[AnthonyArmato]

Yeah, I have that version. Installed it and saw no changes so I went back to 116. Was leery to leave it running without any noticeable difference.

 

[cc666]

.116

Is .116 any better than .108????

CC

 

[AnthonyArmato]

I believe so. I'm running it without any issues.

 

[mrcom]

Is .116 any better than .108????

CC

Hi, when i ran the .116b my kids had problems playing cod mw3 online.
Best regards mrcom

 

[cc666]

?

Mrcom what verion are you running .108?

CC

 

[mrcom]

Mrcom what verion are you running .108?

CC

Hi yes at the moment im running .108 i have tried them all and right now it seems to be the one that works the best. .112 and over i had problems with dhcp server.

 

[RogerSC]

Hi yes at the moment im running .108 i have tried them all and right now it seems to be the one that works the best. .112 and over i had problems with dhcp server.

Same here, .108 firmware works best for me at the moment.

 

[hggomes]

Updating RT-N66U to NVRAM 64K... Lets see the results

Update link:


Jan 1 00:00:09 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.17.4
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.17.4 (2012-05-14 08:33:01 CST)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Linux version 2.6.22.19 (root@asus) (gcc version 4.2.4) #2 Mon May 14 08:42:52 CST 2012
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: CPU revision is: 00019749
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Determined physical RAM map:
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: memory: 08000000 @ 87fff000 (usable)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Zone PFN ranges:
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Normal 0 -> 131072
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: HighMem 131072 -> 589823
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0: 0 -> 32767
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0: 557055 -> 589823
Jan 1 00:00:09 syslog: module ledtrig-usbdev not found in modules.dep
Jan 1 00:00:09 syslog: module leds-usb not found in modules.dep
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65535
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: CPU: BCM5300 rev 1 pkg 0 at 600 MHz
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Using 300.000 MHz high precision timer.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: console [ttyS0] enabled
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Memory: 255016k/131068k available (2429k kernel code, 6828k reserved, 502k data, 200k init, 131072k highmem)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Initializing host
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Reset RC
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Initializing host
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Reset RC
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bus 0
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI/PCIe coreunit 0 is set to bus 1.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bridge
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bridge
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI/PCIe coreunit 1 is set to bus 2.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bridge
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bridge
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PCI: Fixing up bus 2
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: TCP reno registered
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: io scheduler noop registered (default)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 4.8 $, maxframe=4096
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: N_HDLC line discipline registered.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8000300 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xb8000400 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 24
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.18.3
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: PPTP driver version 0.8.5
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: number of CFI chips: 1
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Flash device: 0x2000000 at 0x1c000000
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0x00040000-0x01fe0000 : "linux"
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0x0013c400-0x011e0000 : "rootfs"
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0x01fe0000-0x02000000 : "nvram"
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: 0x01f40000-0x01fe0000 : "jffs2"
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Found an serial flash with 0 0KB blocks; total size 0MB
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: sflash: found no supported devices
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: _nvram_init: allocat header: 2280849408, size= 65536
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: u32 classifier
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: OLD policer on
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (2048 buckets, 16384 max)
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: ipt_time loading
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: net/ipv4/netfilter/tomato_ct.c [May 13 2012 22:29:36]
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Bridge firewalling registered
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ctf: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.138.20
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.100.138.20
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: eth2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.100.138.20
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ufsd: driver 8.5 (U85_S[2011-11-01-13:41:37]) LBD=ON with ioctl loaded at c0212000
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: NTFS support included
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Built_for__asus_n66u_2011-10-27
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: EHCI Host Controller
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: EHCI Fastpath: New EHCI driver starting
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: irq 6, io mem 0x18004000

 

[hggomes]

.... continues


Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:04.0: OHCI Host Controller
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:04.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:04.0: irq 6, io mem 0x18009000
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver net1080
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver zaurus
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: register_vlan_device: ALREADY had VLAN registered
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: register_vlan_device: ALREADY had VLAN registered
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb 1-1.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb 1-1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: br0: starting userspace STP failed, starting kernel STP
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: vlan1: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: device vlan1 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Multi Flash Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 1 00:00:12 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Jan 1 00:00:13 kernel: device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 1 00:00:14 stop_nat_rules: apply the redirect_rules!
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: br0: port 3(eth2) entering forwarding state
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Jan 1 00:00:14 kernel: br0: port 1(vlan1) entering forwarding state
Jan 1 00:00:14 WAN Connection: Ethernet link down.
Jan 1 00:00:14 dnsmasq[522]: started, version 2.55 cachesize 1500
Jan 1 00:00:14 dnsmasq[522]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-RTC no-DBus no-I18N DHCP TFTP
Jan 1 00:00:14 dnsmasq[522]: asynchronous logging enabled, queue limit is 5 messages
Jan 1 00:00:14 dnsmasq-dhcp[522]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.1.2 -- 192.168.1.254, lease time 1d
Jan 1 00:00:14 dnsmasq[522]: read /etc/hosts - 2 addresses
Jan 1 00:00:14 RT-N66U: start httpd
Jan 1 00:00:15 syslog: SNet version started
Jan 1 00:00:15 miniupnpd[543]: HTTP listening on port 59107
Jan 1 00:00:15 miniupnpd[543]: Listening for NAT-PMP traffic on port 5351
Jan 1 00:00:15 miniupnpd[543]: ioctl(s, SIOCGIFADDR, ...): Cannot assign requested address
Jan 1 00:00:15 miniupnpd[543]: ioctl(s, SIOCGIFADDR, ...): Cannot assign requested address
Jan 1 00:00:39 notify_rc : start_autodet
Jan 1 00:00:45 notify_rc : start_autodet
Jan 1 00:00:47 notify_rc : start_autodet
Jan 1 00:01:09 notify_rc : restart_time
Jan 1 00:01:09 kernel: klogd: exiting
Jan 1 00:01:09 syslogd exiting
Dec 31 12:01:09 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.17.4
Dec 31 12:01:09 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.17.4 (2012-05-14 08:33:01 CST)
Dec 31 12:01:09 syslog: Password for 'admin' changed
Dec 31 12:01:09 RT-N66U: start httpd


RT-N66U login: admin
Password:


ASUSWRT RT-N66U_9.0.0.3 Mon May 14 00:33:02 UTC 2012
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram show >/dev/null
size: 27549 bytes (37987 left)

 

[bigmag]

@hggomes

How can Download ist the new FW build

 

[hggomes]

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?25929-NEW-ASUS-RT-N66U-ROUTER!&p=250491#post250491

 

[AnthonyArmato]

Confused... What are the .bin files for ?

 

[hggomes]

CFE files, i only have "compared" them and shared in case anyone wants to see them. It seems CFE was not really updated, but hacked somehow to reach to 64K...

 

[AnthonyArmato]

Just updated mine. Surprisingly my backup settings worked this time when restored.

Any idea how this firmware compares to RT-N66U_9.1.0.3_125 ? I assume RT-N66U_9.1.0.3_125 is newer since it's 9.1, or maybe not.

 

[hggomes]

I guess the main purpose was updating NVRAM size, so don't expect too much differences, unfortunately i don't have access to changelog.

 

[TC777]

That 9.1.0.3_125 version is one that Asus had me try to fix a problem I had with some client devices getting stuck on the detection. It fixed it for me, or at least for those two devices (Epson printer and a WD Media player).

 

[AnthonyArmato]

Neither resolved the client list for me. RT-N66U_9.1.0.3_125 did resolve the issue I was having with the QOS page not showing (even the side menu) after adding 8 MAC addresses manually.