No data over wireless

[miniterror]

Hello Smallnet builders,

I hope you guys can help me out.
At the moment im in a moving to a bigger house.
For this house I want perfect wifi coverage everywhere.
To get this I whas thinking of buying two Cisco WAP371 devices wich I can cluster and get a perfect covering 5Ghz wifi network.
Today at my inlaws I whas playing with a Asus rt-ac66u wich I flashed with merlin build.
While playing there I noticed I could set it as extender.
I investigated the router and its costs and came to the conclusion two rt-ac68u would be cheaper and probably provide the same experience and more with all the functions merlin offers(VPN for example).
The downside is the range of the ac66u which isn't to good in my opinion.
After some research I found out the TX power of European models is limited and I unlocked all settings to unlock full power.
I used the following code

nvram set pci/1/1/ccode=#a
nvram set pci/1/1/regrev=0
nvram set pci/2/1/ccode=#a
nvram set pci/2/1/regrev=0
nvram set regulation_domain_5G=#a
nvram set regulation_domain=#a
nvram set wl0_country_code=#a
nvram set wl0_country_rev=0
nvram set wl0_reg_mode=off
nvram set wl1_country_code=#a
nvram set wl1_country_rev=0
nvram set wl1_reg_mode=off
nvram commit
reboot

the default code whas

admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get pci/1/1/ccode
EU
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get pci/1/1/regrev
13
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get pci/2/1/ccode
EU
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get pci/2/1/regrev
13
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get regulation_domain_5G
EU
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get regulation_domain
EU
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wl0_country_code
EU
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wl0_country_rev
13
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wl0_reg_mode
off
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wl1_country_code
EU
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wl1_country_rev
13
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root# nvram get wl1_reg_mode
off
admin@RT-AC66U-68C8:/tmp/home/root#

After making these changes I set the power limit to 200Mw instead of 80 that it whas.
I notice a signal increase for the 2.4Ghz but when I connect it wont transfer any data.
Cant do a speed test or use facebook.
The 5Ghz channel is visible but when I want to connect nothing happens.

Does any one have any ideas why this I happening?
If this could be solved I will probably go for two 68u's in my new house
Firmware on the 66u is 3.0.0.4.374.43

With best regards,

Mini

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
All was fine with regular 80mW settings? You know radio can shut down to protect itself from things like over heating, etc. Try to increase power gradually and see what happens. In this regard every router behaves differently. In my experiences, increasing power like that does not make a whole lot difference other than risk of shortening the life of radio chip or damaging it. Also keep it mind WiFi is 2 way deal. The other end(the
device) has even smaller flea power radios. Like "I can hear you but can't you hear me?"
situation, LOL!

 

[miniterror]

Hi,
All was fine with regular 80mW settings? You know radio can shut down to protect itself from things like over heating, etc. Try to increase power gradually and see what happens. In this regard every router behaves differently. In my experiences, increasing power like that does not make a whole lot difference other than risk of shortening the life of radio chip or damaging it. Also keep it mind WiFi is 2 way deal. The other end(the
device) has even smaller flea power radios. Like "I can hear you but can't you hear me?"
situation, LOL!

Thx for your reply,
With the old settings it worked without a problem.
After changing the hard coded settings thrue telnet and I upped the MW the problem started right away.
temperatures are still the same when I look in the router, this makes me believe there isn't a temperature problem.
I changed the MW back to 80 as it whas before I started messing with the codes but the effect stays the same.
Im now 1.5 meter away from the asus wich transmits at 80MW and I cant even start a speedtest.net
Is the code that I enterd formiliar for you guys?
Could it be the code isn't for the ac66u.
As for the receiving devices, I am in the living room where the same devices used to get 1 bar of coverage wich whas enough for a slow connection.
After these settings im getting 3 out of 4 bars but no data
Hoping the harder transmitting will up the speed a bit in the living room.

 

[miniterror]

Little update as I couldn't let it rest.
I got the connection on 2.4Ghz working after rebooting every device in the house including the ISP modem and Asus router.
Downside is that I still cant get a connection on the 5Ghz freq.
Looking at the extension channel its only set to auto and I cant choose anything else there.
Shouldn't I be able to choose a specific setting there?

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
If you did not do it already, I'd clear the nvram and redo the router cofig.
Good luck.