ASUS New DSL-AX82U Modem Router Combo – Wifi 6 ASUS New DSL-AX82U Modem Router Combo / Wifi 6 At long last I am now able to (officially) confirm that ASUS are in the process of releasing there latest addition...

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I directed those who experienced the problem to the thread here for direct communication, but they disappeared.

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Superhands wrote:

Has anyone noticed a lower sync speed on the latest firmware?.

Regarding Sync rate, has you SNR values changed ?

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I haven’t tried re-loading the old firmware yet – i’ve been wanting to not cause too many reboots/disconnections in case it drops the line any further.   I’ll try re-loading the old one shortly though. I notice there is a newer dsl firmware in the latest version though so maybe that’s part of it.

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Superhands wrote:

Has anyone noticed a lower sync speed on the latest firmware?.

Regarding Sync rate, has you SNR values changed ?

 

SNR margin remains at 3.1  which it was at before?

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Superhands wrote:

I notice there is a newer dsl firmware in the latest version though so maybe that’s part of it. 

As SNR values are the same, very likely DSL driver, if you do revert back and sync rate increases, let us know as I will let  ASUS know also

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Superhands wrote:

I notice there is a newer dsl firmware in the latest version though so maybe that’s part of it.

As SNR values are the same, very likely DSL driver, if you do revert back and sync rate increases, let us know as I will let ASUS know also

 

I’ve never reverted back a fw version of this, do I just upload the older one in the same was as an upgrade?  And doing a normal upgrade it keeps all settings – will this do the same or need to input them all again?

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Ok I installed the prior firmware. There was a 2 mbps boost to synch rate at the same SNR.  Not exactly back up to where I was before, but a boost nonetheless.

Additionally if anything is going to be fed back to ASUS – I notice in the release notes for the latest version they included support for iPhone 4G tethering.  When I checked (before I reverted the fw) in USB Application > 3G/4G the options were still USB modem or Android Phone.  If support for iPhone has indeed now been included, it wasn’t reflected within the UI section for USB tethering.

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TBH – 2Mb is not worth a discussion with ASUS but the iPhone option is interesting.

Changelog for  3.0.0.4.388_22048 details ‘Added iPhone USB tethering connection support’ is this what you are referring to ?. and as you say, when UI section for USB tethering is open, no reference to iPhone was obvious.

Anybody else noticed this with their DSL-AX82U ?

 

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TBH – 2Mb is not worth a discussion with ASUS but the iPhone option is interesting. Changelog for 3.0.0.4.388_22048 details ‘Added iPhone USB tethering connection support’ is this what you are referring to ?. and as you say, when UI section for USB tethering is open, no reference to iPhone was obvious. Anybody else noticed this with their DSL-AX82U ?

 

Indeed that was the thing that piqued my interest in the new version – there’s been a few times that would have come in handy when my dsl line went down.

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I just plugged in my DSL-AX82U which had 3.0.0.4.388_22048 already loaded and had a look, does seem as though there is no manual option for iPhone, so will have a chat with ASUS

 

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So I had a chat with ASUS and they “ASUS” are going to rename the option “Android Phone” and call it “Legacy”  this will be suitable for both Android and iOS mobile devices etc. going forward.

Note: The option name “Android phone” should work with iPhone already, just the naming convention was not correct (it will be going forward) 

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The option name “Android Phone” will be updated to “Legacy” in later firmware. Use this option for iPhone.

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So I had a chat with ASUS and they “ASUS” are going to rename the option “Android Phone” and call it “Legacy” this will be suitable for both Android and iOS mobile devices etc. going forward. Note: The option name “Android phone” should work with iPhone already, just the naming convention was not correct (it will be going forward) ———- The option name “Android Phone” will be updated to “Legacy” in later firmware. Use this option for iPhone. ———

Interesting choice to call tethering legacy – is it legacy really? what’s a more modern non-legacy choice to tethering?  Bizarre!

Thanks for following that up though, good to know it’s a UI thing and that iPhone should now work. That’s a really useful feature, it’s nice to know ASUS are still working to bring new features to the device.

 

Also, just for reference, I reset and updated to the latest firmware again and the synch speed dropped back down 2.something mbps sitting at 57.6mb  Not a lot admittedly but it seems there is a difference that’s within that firmware.

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Superhands wrote:

Interesting choice to call tethering legacy – is it legacy really? what’s a more modern non-legacy choice to tethering?  Bizarre!

As long as ASUS get the bigger picture I am happy, I am sure ASUS have their justification and maybe a challenge for another day

Edit: As you say, great news that we can now use our iPhone’s for tethering if ever needed

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I’ve noticed with this router that my ping times if I ping the local router IP are all over the place, veer between 1ms and 500ms.

I am using a wifi 6 network adapter, don’t have any other local wifi networks to compete on the same channel (although I have tried changing channel).

 

On the 5ghz band which has the issues (2.4ghz does not, pings 1ms consistently), I have manually set it to 80mhz width, disabled universal beamforming (ax beamforming and ofdma/ax mu-mimo are enabled but don’t make a difference to the latency issues if turned off)

Are there any other settings that might be giving me such latency issues on 5ghz?

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Ping uses the ICMP protocol and is great for light touch testing of connected devices, but when you get into the realms of RTT ( Round-trip time ) maybe better to look at jitter testing which measures the fluctuation in latency.

Not sure if you have any Network based testing tools, if not I think you can still use SolarWinds on free trial to test jitter etc.

 

 

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It seems this issue with 5ghz was client related and not the router at all … I saw a suggestion to disable ‘wake on magic packet’ and ‘wake on pattern match’ in the interfaces settings and strangely it seems to have fixed it, no strange latency issues for about a day now. Fingers crossed!

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