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...

[dodgydrains]

UK Sentinel wrote:

I am sure there is chart online, never really looked, ‘job for you’ – the pic is from my Fritz!Box when I plugged it in a couple of months ago, so at the time I had a good (low) SNR, not plugged it back in as to busy gaming with my DrayTeK 130 modem and Netgear XR500

I searched but not found anything online yet.  Are you getting the full 80/20 sync with your DrayTek 130?  What sort of CRC/ES/SES errors do you get per day on your line with it?

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Screen dump of my DrayTeK stats, I am on a BT capped Service (50/10) so will not get synch at 80 Mbps etc.

so far 4 days running and have higher than I would like SNR values (I hope that will settle in lower over time) and 31197 FEC over 4 days,

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Not sure if I am reading this right.  I think your stats show you are on fastpath, in which case FEC errors will be lower than interleaving?

I get 30k FEC in around an hour.  Connection has been rock solid so far for me and keeps downstream SNR at around 6.2dB day or night.

I got a replacement sent to me from Amazon as the model sent had a manufacture date of 2017.  The manufacture date of the one where the wifi died on me was also 2017.  This one has a manufacture date of march 18.

Is your max attainable 66.2MB?

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dodgydrains wrote:

Not sure if I am reading this right. I think your stats show you are on fastpath, in which case FEC errors will be lower than interleaving? I get 30k FEC in around an hour. Connection has been rock solid so far for me and keeps downstream SNR at around 6.2dB day or night. I got a replacement sent to me from Amazon as the model sent had a manufacture date of 2017. The manufacture date of the one where the wifi died on me was also 2017. This one has a manufacture date of march 18. Is your max attainable 66.2MB?

If I was not capped, I could possible get 66Mb, but in reality, I get 55Mb,

FastPath provides lower latency, interleaving provides greater stability, both are controlled by DSLAM/Exchange and nowadays, FastPAth is applied unless you are on a noise line etc.

In simple terms: INTERLEAVE=insert error correction to recover from less than perfect connection.

FASTPATH=no additional error correction, may speedup connection at the risk of incurring disconnects.

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dodgydrains wrote:

I got a replacement sent to me from Amazon as the model sent had a manufacture date of 2017. The manufacture date of the one where the wifi died on me was also 2017.

Hi, what do you mean by wifi died?

I had a manufacture date of 2018 and the 2.4GHz chip died, now have a 2017.

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Hi, what do you mean by wifi died? I had a manufacture date of 2018 and the 2.4GHz chip died, now have a 2017.

Back in around August 2017 the 5GHz wifi suddenly stopped working for me.  I was asked by Paul Lee from Asus to provide logs.  It was determined that the wifi chip had died.  Due to all the firmware bugs at the time, rather than just get another replacement I decided to return it for a refund.

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Looks like your Interleaving since the Openreach visit has improved, and is as I expect, you line still has to settle with Exchange, so give it a week and then the cabinet should decide what is best for you connection.

Cabinet is starting to optimise my line.  Seems to be trying to increase Sync speed which has resulted in increased FEC.  Hopefully FEC won’t impact DLM adversely.

Any ideas what SNR profile I am on now? 3dB?

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Data Rate and Max Data Rate are almost the same now, good news for you,  SNR has improved to 4.8 which is good,

Not sure what you mean by SNR Profile? as SNR values are a battle between Line Speed VS Drops and Errors on you line, each scenario is different and DSLAM/Exchange is the both Judge and Jury ;)

I understand OPENREACH are aiming for SNR values of 3 dB (typically), so hopefully yours will improve further.

Have you noticed/heard of 2.4GHz wifi issues with different years of manufacture for DSL-AC88U, I think that was what @Nyzlia was thinking, as was I ?

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UK Sentinel wrote:

I understand OPENREACH are aiming for SNR values of 3 dB (typically), so hopefully yours will improve further. Have you noticed/heard of 2.4GHz wifi issues with different years of manufacture for DSL-AC88U, I think that was what @nyzlia was thinking, as was I ?

The 3dB target is what I was referring to.  I read somewhere that not all cabinets have had this rolled out.

UPDATE2 Speed Boost as BT Openreach Prep 3dB SNR for FTTC Broadband Lines

With regards the wifi issues, the logic I was using was that the later models will hopefully use improved hardware.  I see that the March 2018 model I have has hardware version A1.  Not sure if that means anything or if they have made improvements to any hardware since launch.

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Improved hardware and manufacturing techniques, yes we can hope ;) – for SNR, it used to be in increments of 3 (3-6-9) etc. and a while back SNR value of 6 was considered good/norm, as yours is lower, we can assume you are likely to be on one of the DSLAMs/Exchanges that are set to 3dB

Enjoy ;)

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Any update from Asus on this long awaited elusive stable firmware release?

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Improved hardware and manufacturing techniques, yes we can hope – for SNR, it used to be in increments of 3 (3-6-9) etc. and a while back SNR value of 6 was considered good/norm, as yours is lower, we can assume you are likely to be on one of the DSLAMs/Exchanges that are set to 3dB Enjoy

Hopefully by the end of the month, is what they told me last week, if not on there downloads servers tomorrow evening, I will chase them on Thursday regarding progress .

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[Agi47]

hi i just got the same problem my 5g has stop working not happy

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Agi47 wrote:

hi i just got the same problem my 5g has stop working not happy

Have you had any power cuts, try a factory reset and see if this helps?

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no power cuts did factory reset no luck :( 503 firm ware

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