PCE-AC68 Windows 10 Drivers

[pierrerion]

Why shouldn't I have a new driver for a new OS? If they can improve on it that's would be great. The only problem I notice is the driver doesn't start up fast enough.

Excuse my utilitarianism. I had similar experience in Win8.1 where wifi connection is only established a little while after startup.

 

[snakebite3]

Excuse my utilitarianism. I had similar experience in Win8.1 where wifi connection is only established a little while after startup.

I network drive a folder on the router. It time out saying it doesn't exist. The event viewer has a lot of "The Network List Manager reports no connectivity to the internet." errors. This something I never saw on win 8.1. I guess the driver wasn't starting fast enough. Lets see if Asus can deliver a new driver and not a re-certify old driver.

 

[bodean]

I network drive a folder on the router. It time out saying it doesn't exist. The event viewer has a lot of "The Network List Manager reports no connectivity to the internet." errors. This something I never saw on win 8.1. I guess the driver wasn't starting fast enough. Lets see if Asus can deliver a new driver and not a re-certify old driver.

Ill remain hopeful too that ASUS can get a driver out there soon. Again, they had months to get the driver ready prior to Windows 10 release. Broadcom already has the drivers available. And it took about 2 weeks, back and forth with ASUS, after them continuing to tell me that it is Plug and Play, no driver needed, only to realize they were wrong, and to pull that statement/pdf off their website, and get to work getting their customers a driver.

 

[sfx2000]

I network drive a folder on the router. It time out saying it doesn't exist. The event viewer has a lot of "The Network List Manager reports no connectivity to the internet." errors. This something I never saw on win 8.1. I guess the driver wasn't starting fast enough. Lets see if Asus can deliver a new driver and not a re-certify old driver.

That's a windows thing, and I've seen this as well other other cards...

 

[sfx2000]

Ill remain hopeful too that ASUS can get a driver out there soon. Again, they had months to get the driver ready prior to Windows 10 release. Broadcom already has the drivers available. And it took about 2 weeks, back and forth with ASUS, after them continuing to tell me that it is Plug and Play, no driver needed, only to realize they were wrong, and to pull that statement/pdf off their website, and get to work getting their customers a driver.

All I can suggest is be patient - the drivers will be there...

I know a lot of folks think I'm Apple centric, but guess what - I've got a fair amount of ASUS gear at the fortress...

The USB-AC56 dongle -- got lucky, realtek had a driver, and it's a darn good one to be honest... just wish they would have a decent linux driver for current kernels...

ASUS X200CA sub-notebook, not so lucky on it, as some of the drivers just weren't ready... not just wireless, but also the touchscreen and many of the ASUS apps

My son has a ROG 17" Gamerbook (huge beastly thing, but monstrously fast at everything), and I've suggested that he hold off for now, and check the ROG forums before making the jump...

Heck - even my WL-330NUL has had some problems, and no Win10 support there... I'm hesitant to even try to plug that thing into a Win10 device, as it wants to install connection management SW...

ASUS has a very broad product line, and they're likely putting most of their QA efforts on their Laptops and Desktops first, then their motherboards for the DIY crowd - and that's not bad, as that will eventually filter down to us with the add-in boards - probably video cards first...

 

[mzaur8]

Hey guys,
Glad I stumbled upon this thread. I've been having issues and maybe it's related to Win 10 and drivers? I got a TPLink Archer T8E but transfer speed is inconsistent. Sometrimes it'll go at the max 30MB/s between my desktop and my MBP. But usually transfer speed is 8-10MB/s. I thought something wrong with the TP link so I got the Asus PCE AC68 instead. The chipset is the same, and actually when I put it in, Windows didn't even recognize that it was a different card. Driver was stuck on TP link. Uninstalled it and installed Win8 drivers from Asus and having same issue where speed is inconsistent. Perhaps it's because of the drivers not being compatible with Windows 10? I'm getting a 1gb link rate connection.

 

[mzaur8]

I found these updated Broadcom drivers but it won't let me download. Just goes to the homepage... weird.

http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=352&func=fileinfo&id=1663

 

[bodean]

I found these updated Broadcom drivers but it won't let me download. Just goes to the homepage... weird.

http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=352&func=fileinfo&id=1663

Maybe they were pulled

 

[Anorax]

Reverting to Win8.1 Asus driver resolved the problem. Seems very stable so far.

I've done the same. The 2.0.8.8 ASUS PCE-AC68 WLAN Control Center driver from June 2014 does seem to work on a clean install of Windows 10. Not sure how reliable it is but so far both the Control Center and the driver are working. My connection speed is a solid 702Mbps up and down and beamforming is turned on. It is connected to an ASUS RT-AC68U router. I do get occasional spikes in latency to the router but I am not sure if this is due to an incompatility issue with Windows 10 or a setting on my wireless card.

I also tried the generic Broadcom drivers found on Station Drivers but they cause a lot of issues with the PCE-AC68 card. The worst being the Advanced Settings page for the device hangs when trying to change a property. Also the 5Ghz channel does not work well at all.

 

[mzaur8]

I've done the same. The 2.0.8.8 ASUS PCE-AC68 WLAN Control Center driver from June 2014 does seem to work on a clean install of Windows 10. Not sure how reliable it is but so far both the Control Center and the driver are working. My connection speed is a solid 702Mbps up and down and beamforming is turned on. It is connected to an ASUS RT-AC68U router. I do get occasional spikes in latency to the router but I am not sure if this is due to an incompatility issue with Windows 10 or a setting on my wireless card.

I also tried the generic Broadcom drivers found on Station Drivers but they cause a lot of issues with the PCE-AC68 card. The worst being the Advanced Settings page for the device hangs when trying to change a property. Also the 5Ghz channel does not work well at all.

I've had the same sort of lag spikes. It's definitely a Windows 10 issue. I had same problem with TP link Archer T8E and WDN4800 wifi cards. Not sure if placebo but installing the latest insider build (10525) maybe improved the lag spikes. I am running pingplotter pinging my router and am seeing more consistent latency. I also turned on intereference mitigation in Asus utility.

 

[Anorax]

I've had the same sort of lag spikes.

Just an update to this as I have been tweaking the settings for two days now and re-testing. I have turned off all beamforming options on my RT-AC68U (using the excellent Merlin firmware) and I am not getting any more lag spikes. I am getting a solid <1 ms ping to the router according to PingPlotter.

 

[mzaur8]

Just an update to this as I have been tweaking the settings for two days now and re-testing. I have turned off all beamforming options on my RT-AC68U (using the excellent Merlin firmware) and I am not getting any more lag spikes. I am getting a solid <1 ms ping to the router according to PingPlotter.

That's interesting...I did notice better latency when I turned off beamforming in Asus utility. The biggest difference for me was updating the windows build but I did tests and turning off beamforming made a difference. I have an Airport Extreme so not sure if I can turn off beamforming there, but I don't think it'll make a difference if it's turned off client side. So far using pingplotter it's doing well, avg 0, max 40 over the past hour. The 40 spike is nothing compared to how it used to be last week http://i.imgur.com/7zJIk7P.png

 

[snakebite3]

That's interesting...I did notice better latency when I turned off beamforming in Asus utility. The biggest difference for me was updating the windows build but I did tests and turning off beamforming made a difference. I have an Airport Extreme so not sure if I can turn off beamforming there, but I don't think it'll make a difference if it's turned off client side. So far using pingplotter it's doing well, avg 0, max 40 over the past hour. The 40 spike is nothing compared to how it used to be last week http://i.imgur.com/7zJIk7P.png

Why does beamforming causes high ping latency? Is it a drawback of beamforming or just the way Asus implement it? Is seem the cause is AC beamforming, Universal Beamforming had no effect.

 

[Filikun]

Still nothing. Im using the 8.1 driver and for me it works well but im having WAN disconnects on my new RT-AC68U dont think its related but you never know.

 

[sfx2000]

I have an Airport Extreme so not sure if I can turn off beamforming there

Airport Extreme AC has Beamforming enabled for 11ac only - can't disable it. Seems to work ok with Broadcom/Realtek/Intel 11ac clients judging from packet traces...

The AP Extreme AC is only doing sounding for 11ac clients (Beamforming is session based, and AP initiates it), and have not noted any interop issues with N clients, or non-Apple 5GHz clients, just works..

Apple does not do beamforming in 2.4GHz at all, nor does it attempt to sound for 11n clients in 5GHz, that much I can confirm.

Note - Apple might use the same chips as other vendors, but their Airport platforms are based on NetBSD, not linux, so their drivers are different - at the same time, they must support much more than just their own devices...

sfx

 

[Anorax]

Still nothing. Im using the 8.1 driver and for me it works well but im having WAN disconnects on my new RT-AC68U dont think its related but you never know.

Did you try the Merlin firmware? My RT-AC68U has been rock solid with this version. I am connecting via WAN to an Alcatel Lucent I-240G-R using PPPoE on the Asus router.

 

[Filikun]

Did you try the Merlin firmware? My RT-AC68U has been rock solid with this version. I am connecting via WAN to an Alcatel Lucent I-240G-R using PPPoE on the Asus router.

Yeah I have :/ It seemed to fix it but now I'm getting the problem all over.

EDIT: My ISP are trying to figure out whats wrong. Might not be my hardware after all.

 

[criminala]

I saw the same PDF as everyone here saying the card is supported from windows drivers and if not , it will download it .
Asus promised AMD fx support on the box for a motherboard i bought a few years ago , it never came . Since then , no more ASUS motherboard for me .
Then I buy this Wifi card along with a AC68 Router and I read the PDF with the idiotic message . My mind said : ok that's it , no more ASUS of anything .

I have to say networking works for me with 2.0.8.8 on windows 10 , but only after a cold boot . If i reboot the computer it takes ages for the network to come online (all network programs fail during that time, teamspeak , chat programs , network drives .. so after the network has come up finally i have to manually connect all those things again!! crazy)
For such an expensive Wifi card i would expect at least proper driver updates . Especially after they have had so much time to create a properly working driver for windows 10 !

I also have an HP elitebook laptop . EVERY single windows release their software is incompatible . The software can't be properly removed , windows can't be updated etc. A few google searches reveal tons of furious people every time

Just stop supporting the companies that think they can run a business like this is all I can say .

 

[Anorax]

EDIT: My ISP are trying to figure out whats wrong. Might not be my hardware after all.

FWIW I did lose WAN connection on my RT-AC68U for the first time on Friday after a continuous connect time of 6 days. Not sure what caused it as my fibre internet was still green and connected and everything else connected to the router was working fine (ie. printer, NAS, computers both wifi and wired, etc.)

If it happens again I will let you know.

 

[Anorax]

I have to say networking works for me with 2.0.8.8 on windows 10 , but only after a cold boot . If i reboot the computer it takes ages for the network to come online (all network programs fail during that time, teamspeak , chat programs , network drives .. so after the network has come up finally i have to manually connect all those things again!! crazy)

I have not had this issue. After booting up my computer the PCE-AC68 is already connected at the login screen. This is using the 2.0.8.8 drivers.

BTW all tech companies struggle with driver updates when a new OS is released and Windows 10 is no exception. The tech company I work for is always behind on updates and we get our fair share of complaints from customers. It frustrates staff just as much and we're always hounding our engineering teams to expedite driver updates.