I recently upgraded from a WNDR3700 running dd-wrt to the Asus RT-AC66U.
The initial router swap over was no problem. Getting my router setup and configured with all the setting again was not a problem. I decided to use the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware. I started with 3.0.0.4_354.29_Beta, but after about 4 hours I noticed that the router was rebooting every now and then. So I switched to 3.0.0.4_270.26b and did not have any more rebooting issues. (Kids were not saying the network was down during the middle of a online game.)
After getting everything all setup and my DDNS all squared away (Using DynDNS.org). The RT-AC66U seems to be working without any issues... Wireless was great and all seemed to be working.
The ONLY outstanding issue I had was I haven't received any my emails since I run a mail server. But in the past, every time the router rebooting it grabbed a new WAN IP Address, I knew it took about 1 hours for all the backend DNS to update and the MX BackUp I've setup to find me once again, but after sending a few test emails. I still was not receiving any emails.
Looking at my firewall, I could see DynDNS Mailhop was "talking" to my mail server, but no emails.
Looking at the STMP logs I finally noticed this: (2nd to last line it the noted error):
220 mail.XXXXXX.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:06:17 -0700",
EHLO mail-11-pao.dyndns.com,
250-mail.XXXXXX.com Hello [216.146.32.40],
250-SIZE 20971520,
250-PIPELINING,
250-DSN,
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES,
250-STARTTLS,
250-X-ANONYMOUSTLS,
250-AUTH NTLM,
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM,
250-8BITMIME,
250-BINARYMIME,
250-CHUNKING,
250-XEXCH50,
250-XRDST,
250 XSHADOW,
MAIL FROM:<GWN21@gmail.com> SIZE=2181,
08D043388BEFB998;2013-06-30T00:06:17.762Z;1,receiving message
RCPT TO:<GWN21@XXXXXX.com> ORCPT=rfc822;GWN21@XXXXXX.com,
DATA,
250 2.1.0 Sender OK,
250 2.1.5 Recipient OK,
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>,
Remote
451 4.7.0 Timeout waiting for client input,
Local
Did a quick Google Search and one of the thing that was said was the Router Black Hole issues. Where the packets never get sent or finish their "conversation". The other was the firewall was dropping the rest of the packets.
Long story short.... I wasn't having issues with the firewall I was using, but took it out of the loop. Problem still exists. I decided to put the original Router in place (Netgear WNDR3700 running dd-wrt (v24-sp2)). Started to receive all the queued emails about an 1 after the switch back.
So my questions. Can I use the RT-AC66U? (I'm sure I can, just need to find the "right" firmware to use). Was thinking to use the stock ASUS firmware and see if the problem happens there or use the ww-drt firmware on the RT-AC66U.
Anyone has any ideas, suggestions? I'm looking thru the Forums to find out if anyone had a similar issue/problem.
Thanks,
GWN21
The initial router swap over was no problem. Getting my router setup and configured with all the setting again was not a problem. I decided to use the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware. I started with 3.0.0.4_354.29_Beta, but after about 4 hours I noticed that the router was rebooting every now and then. So I switched to 3.0.0.4_270.26b and did not have any more rebooting issues. (Kids were not saying the network was down during the middle of a online game.)
After getting everything all setup and my DDNS all squared away (Using DynDNS.org). The RT-AC66U seems to be working without any issues... Wireless was great and all seemed to be working.
The ONLY outstanding issue I had was I haven't received any my emails since I run a mail server. But in the past, every time the router rebooting it grabbed a new WAN IP Address, I knew it took about 1 hours for all the backend DNS to update and the MX BackUp I've setup to find me once again, but after sending a few test emails. I still was not receiving any emails.
Looking at my firewall, I could see DynDNS Mailhop was "talking" to my mail server, but no emails.
Looking at the STMP logs I finally noticed this: (2nd to last line it the noted error):
220 mail.XXXXXX.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:06:17 -0700",
EHLO mail-11-pao.dyndns.com,
250-mail.XXXXXX.com Hello [216.146.32.40],
250-SIZE 20971520,
250-PIPELINING,
250-DSN,
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES,
250-STARTTLS,
250-X-ANONYMOUSTLS,
250-AUTH NTLM,
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM,
250-8BITMIME,
250-BINARYMIME,
250-CHUNKING,
250-XEXCH50,
250-XRDST,
250 XSHADOW,
MAIL FROM:<GWN21@gmail.com> SIZE=2181,
08D043388BEFB998;2013-06-30T00:06:17.762Z;1,receiving message
RCPT TO:<GWN21@XXXXXX.com> ORCPT=rfc822;GWN21@XXXXXX.com,
DATA,
250 2.1.0 Sender OK,
250 2.1.5 Recipient OK,
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>,
Remote
451 4.7.0 Timeout waiting for client input,
Local
Did a quick Google Search and one of the thing that was said was the Router Black Hole issues. Where the packets never get sent or finish their "conversation". The other was the firewall was dropping the rest of the packets.
Long story short.... I wasn't having issues with the firewall I was using, but took it out of the loop. Problem still exists. I decided to put the original Router in place (Netgear WNDR3700 running dd-wrt (v24-sp2)). Started to receive all the queued emails about an 1 after the switch back.
So my questions. Can I use the RT-AC66U? (I'm sure I can, just need to find the "right" firmware to use). Was thinking to use the stock ASUS firmware and see if the problem happens there or use the ww-drt firmware on the RT-AC66U.
Anyone has any ideas, suggestions? I'm looking thru the Forums to find out if anyone had a similar issue/problem.
Thanks,
GWN21