RT-AC66R media bridge loses connection

[Andrew Portner]

Had some weird issues ever since I upgraded to 3.0.0.4.376.3754. Randomly the media bridge will lose connection. Sometimes I can't hit the IP of the media bridge from the main router side, other times I can get to the media bridge but none of the wired clients. I tried updating to Merlin 378.52_2, same issue. Did factory resets every upgrade, on main router and media bridge. Anyone got this working reliably on a firmware version?

Edit: main router is also a RT-AC66R

 

[jegesq]

Had some weird issues ever since I upgraded to 3.0.0.4.376.3754. Randomly the media bridge will lose connection. Sometimes I can't hit the IP of the media bridge from the main router side, other times I can get to the media bridge but none of the wired clients. I tried updating to Merlin 378.52_2, same issue. Did factory resets every upgrade, on main router and media bridge. Anyone got this working reliably on a firmware version?

Edit: main router is also a RT-AC66R

Yes, mine is now rock solid running Merlin 378.53 on both my AC66U media bridge and on another AC66U repeater. I had the same experience you're having with prior versions of firmware, but no longer. Now the connection is solid, and I can always access the GUI of the media bridge and the repeater from any connected computer on my LAN. Main router now is an AC3200 also running Merlin 378.53.

Many people have observed that Asus official firmware's implementation of media bridge is broken. Whatever is in Merlin's 387.53 it just works now.

 

[Andrew Portner]

Yes, mine is now rock solid running Merlin 378.53 on both my AC66U media bridge and on another AC66U repeater. I had the same experience you're having with prior versions of firmware, but no longer. Now the connection is solid, and I can always access the GUI of the media bridge and the repeater from any connected computer on my LAN. Main router now is an AC3200 also running Merlin 378.53.

Many people have observed that Asus official firmware's implementation of media bridge is broken. Whatever is in Merlin's 387.53 it just works now.

Wow, you're right! I upgraded to Merlin 387.53 last night after writing this post, thinking it wouldn't fix the issue. This morning, media bridge is still connected. Hope this keeps up! Thanks!