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

[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