Asuswrt-Merlin 380.59 is now available

[dusty459]

The problem is with your Internet connection and has nothing to do with the router. That line indicates that either you are double NATted, or that your modem just rebooted, and your ISP still hasn't allocated a WAN IP to it. That IP you just got is what you typically get from a cablemodem that hasn't established a WAN connection upstream yet.

Hi thanks Merlin Big help Virgin Being Assholes and Now awaiting Engineer Due to Problem with new hub

 

[hackztor]

So its not supported on the AC-88U either right? Without FA it is not possible to reach gigabit download speeds right? I reach 650 down 950 up. My rt-n66U reached 900 down.

FA is not supported on the RT-AC5300.

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[dualm]

Setup: Two ac66u running .59 (router + access point).

I have trouble setting the channels manually. If I disables auto and set the channel to lets say 100 (5 GHz). Then after "applying settings" the GUI shows auto again and the channel is set to *some* frequency mostly not 100... (bandwith 20/40/80).

I can verify this strange behavior with an external wifi listener (Acrylic WiFi Professional) and I have the same behavior on both devices.

Bump. Is this only affecting me?

 

[RMerlin]

So its not supported on the AC-88U either right? Without FA it is not possible to reach gigabit download speeds right? I reach 650 down 950 up. My rt-n66U reached 900 down.

You don't need FA to reach gigabit. The RT-N66U didn't have it either.

Currently, only the RT-AC68U (certain revisions) and RT-AC87U have enabled.

 

[tsunami2311]

Bump. Is this only affecting me?

I have it auto disable and pick my channels manual for 5ghz and it keeps the channel I picked

 

[superkrups20056]

Can a kind soul with the RT-AC66U tell me how well this runs on it? I feel like the newer firmwares are bloated and are focused on the higher end routers, while the poor AC66, while being able to support the firmware, is left in the dust with constant drops and disconnects. 380.57 kept dropping my Hearthstone games from my iPad (even after hard resetting WITHOUT restoring the NVRAM) so I reverted to the 374.43 fork and it has been working well. My family complained of WiFi disconnects from their iPhones and Macbooks on .57 as well (we are an Apple family).

But I want the new and shiny firmware and I am itching to upgrade.

I regularly use the Open VPN Client (PIA), Download Master (I like it better than Transmission because it doesn't crash the router and loads a little quicker; I know the downloads are slower), and have a swap file on my 2 TB WD Red drive USB connected to it, which is also my DLNA server. I am about to get another AC66U to use in repeater mode with the one I have right now.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[GC70]

Hello everybody! (First time on this forum, but many years on Merlin! Thanks to Merlin!!)
I saw just some posts ago other guys having same mine problem on DLNA devices with Asus RT-AC87U.
I have a SONY TV mod. 65X8509C (Italy) and after upgrading from 380.58 to 380.59 all my DLNA servers disappeared from the players lists on my Android TV (Kodi, Plex, Archos). Downgrading to 380.58 everything now is fine.
I saw also the advice to reset the database (one time or every boot), but not how to do it inside this thread.

Can anyone help me?
Thanks & Regards
Giorgio

 

[gtrev]

I was having problems with 380.59 losing connection overnight with my KD55X8500C (nearly the same model) and ac68u. Reset to Factory defaults etc. Nothing worked. Am back on 380.58 now without any problems

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[JemTheWire]

88U here. Ditto DLNA issue. All devices disappeared using .59, rolled back to. .58 and all is good again.

Of course i would like to use .59, but until I can figure out the DLNA issue, I'm more than happy with .58

 

[vincom]

Can a kind soul with the RT-AC66U tell me how well this runs on it? I feel like the newer firmwares are bloated and are focused on the higher end routers, while the poor AC66, while being able to support the firmware, is left in the dust with constant drops and disconnects. 380.57 kept dropping my Hearthstone games from my iPad (even after hard resetting WITHOUT restoring the NVRAM) so I reverted to the 374.43 fork and it has been working well. My family complained of WiFi disconnects from their iPhones and Macbooks on .57 as well (we are an Apple family).

Thanks in advance for any advice.

i have the ac66u, never had wifi dropouts w/either old or new fw.
it could be interference from other sources(many to choose from) and/or other nearby routers.
easiest test is move router to another location within your residence.
older fw drivers could be good as it might be less susceptible to said interferences

 

[njespo]

As always, Thank you Merlin for all of your fine efforts in providing us with such great FW.
I have had mine running beautifully for more than a week now....rock solid stable.

 

[BigTulsa]

i have the ac66u, never had wifi dropouts w/either old or new fw.
it could be interference from other sources(many to choose from) and/or other nearby routers.
easiest test is move router to another location within your residence.
older fw drivers could be good as it might be less susceptible to said interferences

As someone brand new to this forum but not new to Asus routers (I owned two RTN16s for almost four years and had Toastman Tomato on both), I just received the AC66U yesterday but before purchasing settled on the Merlin firmware after hearing how good it was. My only downside to it was the lack of ability from the front end to specify source address NAT entries but the documentation is so good that I was able to just insert a few lines into the nat-start script and it seems to work fine. I'm not shy of command line tools and love the ability to install entware on a USB stick.

Since I don't have a baseline to refer to and 380.59 is my first version of the firmware, I will say that I'm pretty impressed by it. It has many things Tomato has (IPTraffic obviously being one because it archives the data with the same filename) and some things it doesn't.

 

[superkrups20056]

i have the ac66u, never had wifi dropouts w/either old or new fw.
it could be interference from other sources(many to choose from) and/or other nearby routers.
easiest test is move router to another location within your residence.
older fw drivers could be good as it might be less susceptible to said interferences

Do you use all the features I use? DLNA, openvpn, download master?

 

[trboxman]

I'm experiencing the same problem after the update to 59. I simply can't get the router to act as master browser anymore, reverting back to 58 fixes everything.

I have the same issue. Worked flawlessly in the previous 2 versions.

 

[xbrico]

DLNA works but doesn't work. Can be very touchy. I have no problems on a PS3 using a DDWRT router [Cisco e4200] as its wifi adapter but PS4 straight seems to not see server on Windows 10 PC. Smart TV will see the DLNA after a reboot of the router but when the tv is turned off and on again at a different session, cannot find DLNA. Rolled back to .57 and all worked immediately again. Hope its something that's handy fixed.

 

[vincom]

Do you use all the features I use? DLNA, openvpn, download master?

no

 

[charlie2alpha]

The DLNA issues seem to be a problem with the multicast packet handling, another user posted a fix back a few pages. It fixed an issue I had with my PS 3 disappearing when I was trying to control it remotely.

 

[aprudovsky]

The DLNA issues seem to be a problem with the multicast packet handling, another user posted a fix back a few pages. It fixed an issue I had with my PS 3 disappearing when I was trying to control it remotely.

Could you, please, point to the fix more exactly?

 

[charlie2alpha]

Could you, please, point to the fix more exactly?

I did what is mentioned in this post: Post #390
All the discover issues I had went away with this.

 

[Jheroen]

I was still on .55 when i updated last week to this build, i mention now that my android phone is very quick unloaded, i guess some battery drain is active from the router that wasn't before... can anyone confirm this?

I will revert back to .55 with a factory reset and manual reconfig

Does no one else have this?