Hi there brains trust, I'm hoping you can help me get to the bottom of an issue plaguing me. I've been running an RT-AC68U for years with the same ISP and it's been rock solid. In the past 2 months I've started getting frequent dropouts under heavy bandwidth use, only under heavy use mind you. I believe the dopouts started after a 24 hour outage was restored, it may just be a coincidence but it feels like a smoking gun. I have 100mb fibre to my home with an NTD provided by the ISP and my RT-AC68U uses a PPPoE connection.
Symptom: When I push the bandwidth to max for 10mins or so the WAN drops and the RT-AC68U won't re-establish. I have to click the OFF/ON button in the Asus web interface to force a reconnect which it does immediately, otherwise the Asus won't retry.
Troubleshooting tried so far:
Firmware update to 384.19
Firmware downgrade back to 344.11 which is a year old and I was running fine back then.
Wipe and factory reset
Swapped the device with another RT-AC68U (I use it as a mesh wifi)
Called the ISP, they said that they see no outages on their side when I report a drop and they can continue to ping their NTD even when my router drops the WAN. They point the finger at my routing device or my firmware.
Connected a laptop direct to the NTD, established PPPoE and pushed the bandwidth for 30mins or so and it was stable. I probably needed to test longer and more frequently to get conclusive results but the household was bugging me to get the internet back for them.
Can you help me get to the bottom of this? Maybe some debug logs? Wireshark? I'm determined, with your help, to find the evidence and the culprit.
Thanks
Symptom: When I push the bandwidth to max for 10mins or so the WAN drops and the RT-AC68U won't re-establish. I have to click the OFF/ON button in the Asus web interface to force a reconnect which it does immediately, otherwise the Asus won't retry.
Troubleshooting tried so far:
Firmware update to 384.19
Firmware downgrade back to 344.11 which is a year old and I was running fine back then.
Wipe and factory reset
Swapped the device with another RT-AC68U (I use it as a mesh wifi)
Called the ISP, they said that they see no outages on their side when I report a drop and they can continue to ping their NTD even when my router drops the WAN. They point the finger at my routing device or my firmware.
Connected a laptop direct to the NTD, established PPPoE and pushed the bandwidth for 30mins or so and it was stable. I probably needed to test longer and more frequently to get conclusive results but the household was bugging me to get the internet back for them.
Can you help me get to the bottom of this? Maybe some debug logs? Wireshark? I'm determined, with your help, to find the evidence and the culprit.
Thanks