Reply To: ASUS – DSL-AC88U / DSL-AC3100 Firmwares (beta's) etc. Looks like a new Beta Release for the DSL-AC88U is available, this version has Telnet enabled and improved 2.4GHz wifi (I believe). DSL-AC88U_v9.10.06_build581_debug.w.zip https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/604D61534F2541D1B3CE1CC031A697E4Y UK Sentinel In a completely…

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I’ll tell you my short story, 6 years ago when I contracted UPC in Ireland I got a Cisco EPC3925 which is a decent router with WiFi, and that was the problem -with WiFi- so I was never able to get the speed I contracted through the WiFi so this is what I did:

• Bought the RT-AC56U and put Merlin in it (not at the beginning, after some research)
• I completely disabled the WiFi radio on the Cisco router.
• Set the Cisco router to bridge mode.
• Got greedy and bought the RT-AC3200 which is better than the RT-AC56U but the TriBand is not a good thing because trying to do too many things usually ends in bad.
• Got even more greedy and bought the DSL-88U which was a bad decision, I didn’t do my homework to find out that the firmware is not the standard AsusWRT that Merlin supports, Merlin doesn’t support ANY Asus DSL router

What I have learned so far:

• When dealing with the ISP don’t ever get a router with WiFi because of their lack of CPU and RAM.
• Buy a good extra WiFi router and configure the ISP router in bridge mode and that’s it, profit.

If I were you and you can return the DSL-88U do it because I don’t think there is hope for it, if you have some router working use it until the RT-AX88U is fully supported by Merlin (in progress) and buy that one combined with a non-WiFi ISP router.

If you don’t have such money you can buy the RT-AC86U which has nice high speed dual CPU.

Here is the spec of every Asus AC router RAM and CPU which is what I use when deciding what to buy next, look at the last two tables which are the AC and AX router(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asus_routers

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