Copy settings from old to new router ?

[irfs]

Hi there. My old router is an 68u and ive now picked up a rt-ac1900. Can i save my settings from my 68u and simply restore the new router to them?
Thanks

 

[Grisu]

you can try, they previously should have same firmware installed, but if any trouble dont ask and make a factory from scratch.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Hi there. My old router is an 68u and ive now picked up a rt-ac1900. Can i save my settings from my 68u and simply restore the new router to them?
Thanks

No. The settings file contains low-level hardware specific information, like MAC addresses, that are unique to each router.

 

[Grisu]

No. The settings file contains low-level hardware specific information, like MAC addresses, that are unique to each router.

I have done it in the past from a 68U to a 68W and had no problem, could be luck or whatever.

There is the option to transfer Asus-DDNS into config-save file!!!
Would make absolutely no sense if you cannot transfer it to another router ... ?!?!?
And they call it TRANSFER, not safe or something like that.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I remember someone recently reporting that they had imported their settings from their previous router. Because they also used the old router as an access point they found their network didn't work properly because of the duplicated MAC addresses.

 

[Squall Leonhart]

No. The settings file contains low-level hardware specific information, like MAC addresses, that are unique to each router.

no it doesn't.
it can contain the mac override, as it is saved as a cvar.

 

[ColinTaylor]

no it doesn't.
it can contain the mac override, as it is saved as a cvar.

You're replying to a post from over six years ago. The answer was correct back then.

 

[Tech9]

no it doesn't.

There are obviously changes in Asus save/restore tool in >6 years period of Asuswrt development.

 

[Squall Leonhart]

The answer has never been correct lmao.

Most of the guidance on Asus WRT setting transfer has never been correct on this forum, from the usual 3 or 4 people.

You can transfer between AC and AC and AX and AC to AX just fine within the same hardware vendor (ACxxU to 87U won't import professional wifi settings for obvious reasons)

 

[ColinTaylor]

The answer has never been correct

Yes it was. LMAO

I had the RT-AC68U back then and extensively tested this at the time.

 

[Tech9]

Most of the guidance on Asus WRT setting transfer has never been correct on this forum

I've done some recent testing, you can see the results here:

can configuration information of the same firmware version be exported/imported to each other?

If you overwrite these nvrams with the MAC of a different device's config file, they won't be replaced by the correct one unless you did another factory default reset. You will end up with a mixture of correct and incorrect MACs. On which mac addresses do you refer to? This is the AX88U I...

www.snbforums.com

As per Asus own FAQ though - best effort only and if it doesn't work factory reset is needed. Most people prefer to start fresh so there is no gambling what's going on under the hood. Also note stock Asuswrt only. With Asuswrt-Merlin things get more complicated.

Guidance? If factory reset is not a big problem - do it. If not - test your luck, may work. There was a success report XT8 to XT12 recently.

 

[ColinTaylor]

And here was my response in that thread based on my own experiences:

can configuration information of the same firmware version be exported/imported to each other?

A number of variables are probably dynamically generated at boot time. Quite possible they do it for MACs - retrieving it from the bootloader, then filling in the MAC variants for all interfaces. A quick test would be to manually change one, and then rebooting to see if it gets reverted.

www.snbforums.com

 

[Tech9]

And here was my response

And I agree to it - most home setups are simple and starting fresh is the better option. The above was testing the theory and eventual evolution of save/restore. I would say it works for convenience, but impossible to test all combinations and eventual upgrades skipping entire generations of hardware. Convenience options are just that - convenience. Usually not the best. Running into issues will require factory reset anyway.