Where to find old AC68U/R Firmwares?

[apoteker]

Could anyone point me in the direction of where to look for older firmware updates for RT-AC68U/R? I found two old routers that I had forgotten that I had bought on clearance a few years back. When I tried to update to the newest firmware it loads to about 75% and then stops with the "failed to upload the firmware file. transfer cancelled" error. They are currently running 3.0.0.4.374_379 out of the box and in looking through the forum I saw posts that suggested that is too far away from the current firmware release and that I would need to do incremental upgrades to bring them up to the current release. I'm not having any luck in tracking them down on my own. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[Grisu]

you can also use old Merlin firmwares like 378.55 to go on and update cfe.

This one should do it, then you can use latest ones:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/as...-AC68U/Release/RT-AC68U_378.55_0.zip/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AC68U/Release/

 

[apoteker]

you can also use old Merlin firmwares like 378.55 to go on and update cfe.

This one should do it, then you can use latest ones:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/as...-AC68U/Release/RT-AC68U_378.55_0.zip/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AC68U/Release/

Thanks!

 

[NilsFernquist]

you can also use old Merlin firmwares like 378.55 to go on and update cfe.

This one should do it, then you can use latest ones:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/as...-AC68U/Release/RT-AC68U_378.55_0.zip/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AC68U/Release/

Thanks. Will it work for AC86U also?

 

[Grisu]

Thanks. Will it work for AC86U also?

What shall work for 86U?
86U is just over year old, how could there exist older firmwares?

 

[Sanna1967]

Will it work for AC86U also?

no

 

[digixmax]

Could anyone point me in the direction of where to look for older firmware updates for RT-AC68U/R? I found two old routers that I had forgotten that I had bought on clearance a few years back. When I tried to update to the newest firmware it loads to about 75% and then stops with the "failed to upload the firmware file. transfer cancelled" error. They are currently running 3.0.0.4.374_379 out of the box and in looking through the forum I saw posts that suggested that is too far away from the current firmware release and that I would need to do incremental upgrades to bring them up to the current release. I'm not having any luck in tracking them down on my own. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Here is another potential source for old FW versions:

https://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=asus+rt-ac68u.

 

[Brian Ramon Sarmiento]

@apoteker, were you able to resolve your issues?...as I think I have the same problem

 

[Smokindog]

Here is another potential source for old FW versions:

https://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=asus+rt-ac68u.

Have you tried putting it into recovery mode and loading the firmware that way? Before you do, reset it to factory.

** JUST NOTICED this is an older thread.

 

[Brian Ramon Sarmiento]

Have you tried putting it into recovery mode and loading the firmware that way? Before you do, reset it to factory.

** JUST NOTICED this is an older thread.

Yeah...just did that as this was on most threads...called Asus...but not helpful at all...

 

[Brian Ramon Sarmiento]

Thanks. Will it work for AC86U also?

This actually worked. Got my RT-AC68U working now. Thanks