AX86U and 388.1 Connection drop

[tetete]

The symptom is like this:

• 5G or 2.4G devices will say this wifi connection can't connect to internet, and ask me if I want to switch to mobile data.
• On my PC, which is wired connection, webpages will simply not loading during the internet connection drop. NIC seems still showing connected, but I can't connect to the router page too.

I never had this issue before on 386 firmware, so it must be 388 related. I have tried factory reset, and manually set the settings. It didn't resolve it.

Any suggestions? Will any logs help?

 

[John Fitzgerald]

The symptom is like this:

• 5G or 2.4G devices will say this wifi connection can't connect to internet, and ask me if I want to switch to mobile data.
• On my PC, which is wired connection, webpages will simply not loading during the internet connection drop. NIC seems still showing connected, but I can't connect to the router page too.

I never had this issue before on 386 firmware, so it must be 388 related. I have tried factory reset, and manually set the settings. It didn't resolve it.

Any suggestions? Will any logs help?

You are one of many.
See this post:

Aimesh node (RT-AX86U) is being dropped when RT-AX89X is the primary node

In my AiMesh setup, RT-AX86U's 2.5Gbps port is connected to 10G SFP+ port of my primary router RT-AX89X via CAT6 (in order to create MultiGIG Ethernet backhaul). The setup has been working fine until I recently upgraded the firmware for all the nodes. After the firmware upgrade, RT-AX86U has...

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[bbunge]

There is an Asus "test" firmware for the AX86U that has improved WIFI for those who have tried it. There is a download link in the thread for Merlin 388.1 and Asus Official for AX86U current release.

 

[L&LD]

Release - Asuswrt-Merlin 388.1 is now available for all supported Wifi 6 models

Is it planned to support the "Guest Network Pro" mode in models lower than the AX86U Pro? No, as this feature will be part of the new 3.0.0.6 code base, which won't be available on previous platforms.

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[xus]

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ax86u-intermittent-random-drops-on-merlin-fw-388-1.82516/

many people had identical issues including myself - just revert firmware.

 

[Neoony]

Yeah I guess I also have issues ever since 388.1 on AX86U

At least to me it seems that WIFI 6 from Router to Node just randomly drops from time to time
It can be fine for a day
And then on some days it just drops every few minutes

I am just seeing in the logs something about the authentication expiring all the time (forgot to save it before downgrade)

My signal is only quite near OK, but it was working fine before the upgrade
It was not really clear to me that it was because of the New Firmware until I started to consider that recently. (It didnt really seem to start as soon as I upgraded, but around that time yeah, or I didnt really notice for a while)

Only just downgraded now back to 386.7_2 and checking if this will help
EDIT: So far looks like it helped

 

[tetete]

I downgraded, and it works fine now

 

[Jaime Alvarez]

Maybe a bit too late, but here's what I did and solved my issues with my AX86U and 388.1:

1. Unmount USB
2. Erase JFFS
3. Hard reset
4. Reconfigure everything from scratch
   1. WPA2 only
   2. No Smartconnect. Separate 2.4 and 5GHz SSID
   3. Fixed channel for both frequencies (do a scan to select the ones that have low interference form neighboring routers)

I've slowly incorporated other functions (openvpn server, changed DNS provider) add-ons and everything still works fine.

Hope that helps.