Hello folks,
I've had the RT-N56U for approximately 2 months now, and it's been a little troublesome. I'm using it as a 2.4GHz access point only. At first running the latest stock firmware (1.0.8.6i I think) the unit would choke wireless connections down to unusability in about 24-48 hours. By day 3-4 without a restart it was really bad.
Then I tried one of Padavan's recent builds (I believe 025) and found similar wireless slowdowns. I tested pings from wireless clients to wired internal machines- very high -and- very erratic. I then pinged my network enabled receiver which is wired connected to the RT-N56U and this was a solid and consistent <1ms. I pinged other machines that were wired and they all were less than 1ms. Overall this firmware had the latency issues, but the ~24-48hour slow down was not as dramatic. By day 3-4 if I did unplug/replug I found it was very fast again, so obviously something going on.
I jumped to the latest Asus Official Firmware 3.0.0.4.260 and found it to be worse. Higher and more inconsistent pings. Pretty much garbage all around. Consistently unusable at the ~12-24 hour mark.
So last night I flashed back to Padavan's v026. My pings are still inconsistent. I understand how wireless technology works, and sometimes there is latency. On previous routers I would still have 99% of pings stick at 1 specific timing to internal IPs.
So, I guess what I'm wondering, especially in relation to the 24-48 hour slow downs is: Do I have hardware? Should I be pursuing getting a replacement from ASUS?
I've had the RT-N56U for approximately 2 months now, and it's been a little troublesome. I'm using it as a 2.4GHz access point only. At first running the latest stock firmware (1.0.8.6i I think) the unit would choke wireless connections down to unusability in about 24-48 hours. By day 3-4 without a restart it was really bad.
Then I tried one of Padavan's recent builds (I believe 025) and found similar wireless slowdowns. I tested pings from wireless clients to wired internal machines- very high -and- very erratic. I then pinged my network enabled receiver which is wired connected to the RT-N56U and this was a solid and consistent <1ms. I pinged other machines that were wired and they all were less than 1ms. Overall this firmware had the latency issues, but the ~24-48hour slow down was not as dramatic. By day 3-4 if I did unplug/replug I found it was very fast again, so obviously something going on.
I jumped to the latest Asus Official Firmware 3.0.0.4.260 and found it to be worse. Higher and more inconsistent pings. Pretty much garbage all around. Consistently unusable at the ~12-24 hour mark.
So last night I flashed back to Padavan's v026. My pings are still inconsistent. I understand how wireless technology works, and sometimes there is latency. On previous routers I would still have 99% of pings stick at 1 specific timing to internal IPs.
So, I guess what I'm wondering, especially in relation to the 24-48 hour slow downs is: Do I have hardware? Should I be pursuing getting a replacement from ASUS?