Wireless devices not showing

[macster2075]

I am on firmware Version 386.4 and I notice wireless devices are able to connect to the router, but they do not show up in the list.

I connected a USB 3.0 AC adapter on my computer to connect using 5ghz. It connects fine, but it's not showing up on Asus list of devices.
I also tried an iphone 13 and it doesn't show up either.

Any ideas?

 

[Tech9]

Client List is Asuswrt feature, not Asuswrt-Merlin related.

If a few don't show up - it's okay, Client List is not perfect. If none show up - you have a local issue, reset and start over.

My test AC86U router wasn't stable enough on 386.4 to continue testing the firmware. I'll test again when 386.5 is ready.

 

[macster2075]

Thanks for the info!

 

[macster2075]

I wonder if that's why I have been getting so many disconnects from COD.
due to the version not being stable enough.

 

[Tech9]

I don't know. I was getting unstable Wi-Fi on 5GHz. Wi-Fi is a main functionality on this type of router. Nothing to test further.

 

[macster2075]

The main issue I have is because I use QoS bandwidth limiter, I can't assign a specific bandwidth to the devices I can't see in the list.
Is there another way of manually adding the devices to bandwidth limiter list?

 

[Tech9]

Bandwidth Limiter is incompatible with NAT acceleration. When you use the limiter your router is limited to ~350Mbps WAN-LAN traffic. Latency may be higher as well due to traffic processed by the CPU. Depending on your ISP connection and use case, it may or may not be a good idea.

 

[macster2075]

hm... ok. I prefer bandwidth limiter because I like to limit bandwidth to the guess network. If I use auto, then guest network will be included in that which I don't want.
I wish there was a way to separate the two. That way *I can have the guest network to only a certain max speed from the rest of the networks.

 

[Tech9]

Offer 2.4GHz Guest Network only @20MHz wide channel. It's limited to ~90Mbps to 2-stream client anyway.

 

[macster2075]

Oh I didn't know that about the 2.4ghz guest. But I only get about 50-60 Mbps max from my ISP which is another reason I need to use the QoS. Anyone starts to upload to YT or watch netflix and my speeds go down the drain lol

 

[Tech9]

Use the limiter on Guest Network then. Experiment with different types of QoS. Perhaps Cake is your best option.

 

[macster2075]

Oh wait.. I thought I couldn't use the limiter with any other type of QoS. If I selected anything else I get this message.

 

[Tech9]

You are perhaps correct. I have to power up the router to verify. If that's the case, I would prefer Cake QoS. Let your family members benefit from it all the time, instead of bandwidth limiting occasional visitors. Don't invite too many visitors in COVID time. Problem solved.