New Asus RT-AC66U router (5G 802.11ac)

[Omega]

Description ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Version 3.0.0.4.164

httð://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/FW_RT_AC66U_3004164.zip

File Size 21,78 (MBytes) 2012.07.23 update

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. Temporarily removed enable AiCloud option, as the service will officially launch late August.
• 2. Enable cross night setting in wireless radio on/off setting page.
• 3. Adjust WDS connection rule
• 4. Enable Beceem Wimax support.
• 5. Change default wireless security to WPA-AES in QIS.
• 6. Add Spanish language.
• 7. Modify VPN server UI.
• 8. HTTPS authentication
• 9. Tune IPv6 connection for ComCast
• 10. Download master BT cache size changed to 256KB
• 11. Download master supports crosse night schedule setting
• 12. Download master shows amulle server connection status

GPL sources: httð://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/GPL_RT_AC66U_3004164.zip

httð://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTAC66U/#download

[Knowbody]

With a BCM4706 (MIPS), TomatoUSB should only need drivers for the BCM4360 to get it working (or maybe some modifications to support 1300mbps).
With ARM architecture, it would probably be a ton of work to port it. And then you'd need to recompile the programs you want for ARM too (optware stuff).

Would be nice if it did happen though (but unlikely).

[Omega]

Asus RT-AC66U 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Gigabit Router review

CNET Labs 5GHz Wireless-N performance (in Mbps)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
 
Model - Range / Throughput	  
 
Asus RT-AC66U (with 802.11ac client) - 178.5 / 339.2 
Netgear R6300 (with 802.11ac client) - 208 / 331.32 
AirStation WZR-D1800H (with 802.11ac client) - 144 / 233.6 
 
Asus RT-AC66U - 166.6 / 208.2 
Asus RT-N66U - 155.3 / 181.8 
Netgear R6300 - 144.8 / 178.8 
AirStation WZR-D1800H - 120 / 172

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/asus...-35406080.html

Flash1 = 2 MB (CFE+NVRAM), Flash2 = 128 MB (NAND)

Asus RT-AC66U running 3.0.0.4.164 stock firmware:
Telnet Session with 192.168.5.1:

admin@RT-AC66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram show|grep size:
size: 30104 bytes (35432 left)
 
admin@RT-AC66U:/tmp/home/root# dmesg|grep -E "\-0x0|MTD|NAND| ST "
Found an ST compatible serial flash with 32 64KB blocks; total size 2MB
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "sflash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x001f0000-0x00200000 : "nvram"
Found a Samsung NAND flash with 2048B pages or 128KB blocks; total size 128MB
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "nflash":
0x00000000-0x02000000 : "linux"
0x001313e8-0x02000000 : "rootfs"
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xf1 (Samsung NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "brcmnand":
0x00000000-0x02000000 : "trx"
0x02000000-0x07f00000 : "brcmnand"
 
admin@RT-AC66U:/tmp/home/root# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00040000 00010000 "pmon"
mtd1: 00010000 00010000 "nvram"
mtd2: 02000000 00020000 "linux"
mtd3: 01ecec18 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd4: 02000000 00020000 "trx"
mtd5: 05f00000 00020000 "brcmnand"
 
admin@RT-AC66U:/tmp/home/root# dmesg|grep -E "Broadcom BCM"
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 6.30.39.29 (r338244)
eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.39.29 (r338244)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.39.29 (r338244) <== 802.11ac
eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.39.29 (r338244)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.39.29 (r338244)
 
admin@RT-AC66U:/tmp/home/root# uname -a
Linux RT-AC66U 2.6.22.19 #1 Mon Jul 23 18:27:45 CST 2012 mips GNU/Linux

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtop...6437&start=857

[wpte]

Nice one Omaga!

but this:

At a distance of 15 feet, the Asus registered the fastest Wi-Fi speed I've seen, scoring 339Mbps (or about 42MBps, close to the speed of a Gigabit Ethernet wired connection).

What a joke, it's not even half of the gigabit speed
Maybe in the near future we'll have 10gbit wireless and we'll be able to reach 500Mbps

[Omega]

AsusWRT-Merlin - Custom firmware for RT-AC66U

RT-AC66U: First beta release — ASUS_RTAC66U_3003164_RM15Beta.zip (19.6MB)

Asuswrt-merlin provides the following changes over the original firmware:

• WakeOnLan web interface (with user-entered preset targets)
• JFFS persistent partition
• User scripts executed at init, services startup, WAN up, firewall up and shutdown.
• SSHD (through dropbear)
• OUI (MAC address) lookup if you click on a MAC on the Client list (ported from DD-WRT)
• Optionally turn the WPS button into a radio on/off switch
• Saving your traffic history to disk (USB or JFFS)
• Displaying monthly traffic history
• Monitor your router's temperature (under Administration -> Performance Tuning)
• Display active/tracked network connections
• Allows tweaking TCP/UDP connection tracking timeouts
• Various bugfixes: crash issues related to VPN, etc...
• layer7 and cifs kernel modules added
• Optional user-settings for the WAN DHCP client (required by some ISPs)
• Description field added to DHCP reservation entries
• Dual WAN support (both failover and load balancing supported)
• Disk spindown after user-configurable inactivity timeout
• System info summary page
• Wireless client IP and hostname on the Wireless Log page
• Cron jobs

▼ Download: You can download it from the Github repo: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/downloads

Or from my website: http://www.lostrealm.ca/tower/ (Beta release only available on Github at the moment)

The source code including my changes can be found on Github: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.

Hope you folks like it

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=7715

I have just released a first beta version for the RT-AC66U. This version provides all the same
improvements available for the RT-N66U version, such as JFFS, SSH, user-scripts, etc...

You can download it on the Github repository: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/downloads.
The complete source code is also available there. For more info: http://www.lostrealm.ca/asuswrt-merlin/

For the past months I have been providing a custom firmware for the RT-N66U, based on Asus's code
(see this thread for more details). I will post development news on my Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/RMerlinDev

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=2012081213335…p;SLanguage=en-us

[Omega]

ASUS RT-AC66U 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Gigabit Router Reviewed

Routing Performance

Test Description  	RT-AC66U
WAN - LAN 	        836 Mbps
LAN - WAN 	        839 Mbps
Total Simultaneous 	819 Mbps
Maximum Connections 	30,069
Firmware Version 	3.0.0.4.164

Storage Performance

 	 	ASUS  Buffalo  NETGEAR  ASUS
 	     RT-AC66U WZRD1800  R6300  RT-N66U
FAT32 Write 	9.0 	7.3 	8.6 	10
FAT32 Read 	9.9 	11.8 	10.2 	12
NTFS Write 	13.5 	8.4 	11.3 	17
NTFS Read 	9.4 	8.7 	10.3 	11

All three use the same Broadcom BCM4706 CPU. At 256 MB, the AC66U has double the memory of the other two routers,
but the same amount of flash. The same Broadcom BCM4331/BCM4360 radio SoCs are used in all three products.
But the ASUS is the only one of the three to use dual-band external antennas vs. six internal single-band. This means the
external circuitry connecting the radio SoCs to the antennas is different. It looks like the Skyworks 5 GHz amplifiers made it
into ASUS' design. The BCM4360 5 GHz radio is toward the top of the photo; the BCM4331 2.4 GHz radio is toward the bottom.



Removing the bottom plate revealed 128 MB of Samsung flash (K9F1G08U0D) and 2 MB of Macronix serial flash (25L1606E).
There are no thermal pads connecting the plate to the board, so thermal connection must be made from board inner layers
through the six metal standoffs that connect the plate to the board.



http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wirel...outer-reviewed

[Omega]

Description ASUS RT-AC66U Firmware Version 3.0.0.4.188

httð://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/FW_RT_AC66U_3004188.zip

File Size 21,87 (MBytes) 2012.08.31 update

Fixed

• 1. Comcast IPv6 related issues.
• 2. UPnP media server restart issue
• 3. Wireless radio schedule setting issue
• 4. Stabilize media bridge wireless trasmission.
• 5. Network map client list related issue.

Modify

• 1. Enable Tx power adjustment.
• 2. Update 3G/4G modem profiles
• 3. Allow Upnp port redirect external port: 1-65535 to internal port 1024-65535
• 4. QoS user interface, shows applied rule in first page.

Add

• 1. Support Huawei K3770 USB Modem
• 2. NO-IP support

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http://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireles...C66U/#download




http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/in...s-3845510.html

[Omega]

ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless AC 1750 Gigabit Router Overview



http://www.motherboards.org/review/a...ter-overview-0