ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System Not sure if this is the right place to ask…. I am thinking of upgrading my Google Mesh wifi to the above. Has anyone used this and does it...

[Jacky Decoster]

still find it fishy that the stable firmware 3.0.0.4.386.42095 is about 72.5 mbytes and the newly released 3.0.0.4.386.45898 is 55.65 mbytes.

Where’s the difference?

will wait a bit, until some volunteers try the new firmware out, and post their feedback

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[Jonathan Morris]

Just did the update and the mesh node is back on ‘Weak’ and 2.4GHz.

I’ll trigger a reboot and see what happens.

Sigh!

I really don’t want to do a full reset and configure everything again manually, especially as I am not sure it will do anything.

Edit: Optimise did nothing, but two reboots and it eventually came back saying ‘great’ and 5GHz.

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[UK Sentinel]

Good news your 5GHz back-haul is back in action and glad to see you tried the new firmware 1st ,

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[dodgydrains]

I took the plunge and updated.

Factory reset using UI and then pin reset.  Initial impressions are that setup seemed a little smoother.  Usually adding a node via wireless backhaul takes 2 attempts (using the windows UI) – no idea why.

The backhaul channel defaulted to 116/80MHz.

Changed bandwith to 160MHz and all nodes were showing weak 2.4GHz connection for few minutes and then automatically changed to green in UI and 100/160MHz.

Hopefully Microsoft Teams continues to work fine.

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[UK Sentinel]

Your Teams calls will give us a great insight into how well this latest firmware version works (stability), keep us updated

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[dodgydrains]

One massive observation with my setup/configuration…….

RAM usage seems substantially lower.  I have 258MB used 254 Free.  It is usually around 210MB free after first complete set up.

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[Grisu]

[quote quote=15687]still find it fishy that the stable firmware 3.0.0.4.386.42095 is about 72.5 mbytes and the newly released 3.0.0.4.386.45898 is 55.65 mbytes.<noscript></noscript>[/quote]

Firmware size doesnt tell much or even nothing about whats inside and its quality.

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[dodgydrains]

How does ‘Auto Firmware Upgrade’ work?  Does the router update whenever new firmware becomes available?  If so, good thing it is turned off as default.

I haven’t seen this toggle before in ASUS routers.

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[Jonathan Morris]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>[quote quote=15702]How does ‘Auto Firmware Upgrade’ work? Does the router update whenever new firmware becomes available? If so, good thing it is turned off as default. I haven’t seen this toggle before in ASUS routers.[/quote]</p>
 

If you select it, it asks what time you want to perform an automatic update. I agree it’s probably a little risky for ASUS products!

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[dodgydrains]

First day using Microsoft Teams on new firmware 45898.  Several meetings already which have been extremely stable so far without major issues.

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[UK Sentinel]

[quote quote=15709]First day using Microsoft Teams on new firmware 45898. Several meetings already which have been extremely stable so far without major issues.[/quote]

All your good work with ASUS paid off

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[UK Sentinel]

Everyone – Is the latest firmware 45898  providing a good connection and stable, ?

I ask so I can feed this back to ASUS ?

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[dodgydrains]

It has been very stable for me so far.  The free RAM of circa 250MB may be a bug or misreporting as I have never seen this much free RAM with previous firmware.  I will do a complete reboot and see if that remains 250MB free, if so that is amazing.

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[dodgydrains]

Did a reboot of the devices, free RAM is reporting as roughly 210MB.  This is what it was reported with 43181.  Connection remains solid so far, time will tell.

EDIT: This is weird, after 10 minutes now free RAM has increased to 250MB!!!!

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[UK Sentinel]

Still good RAM availability but yes odd the quick change from 210 to 250 Mb

Maybe browser cache ?

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