New Asus RT-N66U Router

[hggomes]

15 January is the delivery date in my country

[Omega]

New firmware Asus RT-N66U_B1_3.0.0.3.108

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-N66U_B1/FW_RT_N66U_B1_3003108.zip

ASUS RT-N66U B1 Firmware Version 3.0.0.3.108 File Size 18,78 (MBytes) 2012.03.09 update

[hggomes]

From what i can see ASUS is not able to fix this router problems and new FWs bring new issues, 3rd party FWs are the way to go...

If we take a look on RT-N56U it was more than a year with WAN disconnects and i really don't know if its already fixed nowdays, i have send several emails with all kind of issues on different FWs versions to ASUS, if anyone has issues with this unit please report it to: networking_support@asus.com

This will help alot so that this unit work better with original firmware.

[hggomes]

"During the testing speed performance external hard drive, we are faced with another problem - if the NIC test PC technology enabled Jumbo Frames, the speed of writing to disk is significantly reduced."

http://translate.google.com/translat...6u-part1.shtml

[theMIROn]

"During the testing speed performance external hard drive, we are faced with another problem - if the NIC test PC technology enabled Jumbo Frames, the speed of writing to disk is significantly reduced"

jumboframes are just big outgoing packets with MTU > 1500. since wireless interface, bridged with lan ethernet are bridged, router can't receive such oversized frames. so, client OS should negotiate client-router mtu properly.
so, in general, jumbo frames are useful for client-client networking only, but not client-router, especially if there's no 1Gbps upstream link.

[hggomes]

That's it Prognostics about fw?

Merci

[Omega]

ASUS RT-N66U B1 Firmware Version 3.0.0.3.162 Äàòà 2012.07.24 Ðàçìåð ôàéëà 19,46 (MBytes)

ftð://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-N66U_B1/FW_RT_N66U_B1_3003162.zip

httð://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-N66U_B1/FW_RT_N66U_B1_3003162.zip

Fix bugs:

• 1. UI related bugs
• 2. Network map cannot show device name.
• 3. QoS control for wired connected devices.
• 4. Special character name/password issue in VPN server.
• 5. Download master installing issue in AP mode.
• 6. PPPoE compatibility issue.
• 7. L2TP compatibility issue.
• 8. Sonos audio system and network map compatibility issue.
  Special thanks to Merlin for his contribution.
• 9. IPv6 6in4 memory leak
• 10. IPTV multicast related issues
• 11. FTP/Samba account change issue

Modified

• 1. Enable cross night setting in wireless radio on/off setting page.
• 2. Enable Beceem Wimax support.
• 3. Change default wireless security to WPA-AES in QIS.
• 4. Add Spanish language.
• 5. Modify VPN server UI.
• 6. Tune IPv6 connection for ComCast
• 7. Upgrade 3G profile

Download master 3.1.0.59

• 1. BT cache size changed to 256KB
• 2. Support crosse night schedule setting
• 3. Show amulle server connection status
• 4. Modify the HDD free space detection behavior
• 5. Fix download master association tool connection issue
• 6. Fix the torrent file add problem when changed the download directory
• 7. Modify the downloading task refresh process

Download master association tool 2.0.3.3

• 1. Support manget link and ed2k on Google Chrome, Firefox, IE
• 2. Fix the manget link association issue on Win7 64bit IE9
• 3. Fix the ed2k download issue on IE

httð://ru.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN66U/#download

[hggomes]

Eheheeh you're a lucky guy

[hggomes]

Interesting thing, i didn't knew that 6.x wireless drivers worked on RT-N66U i though they were used only on AC routers (RT-AC66U), but its curious that users report less wireless coverage with this new drivers, that should not happen... New drivers were supposed to work better.

root@unknown:~# wl ver
6.30 RC163.35
wl1: May 27 2013 10:18:49 version 6.30.163.35 (r391398)
root@unknown:~# uname -a
Linux unknown 3.9.4 #125 Mon May 27 10:19:14 CEST 2013 mips GNU/Linux