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...

[Jonathan Morris]

UK Sentinel wrote:

Jonathan Morris wrote:

A simple toggle of the power switch on the unit itself fixes it every time though.

This can cause corruption over time, so should be a last resort ? I will chase ASUS again to see how they are progressing <noscript></noscript>

You can get digital timers that may be better at controlling any power spikes, so that’s perhaps an option? Doubtful it will be any worse than physically turning it on/off on the router itself.

It should certainly be a last resort. Telling the system to reboot should fix it, but clearly doesn’t. It’s more of a soft reboot and that’s not fixing whatever the issue is that lets it drop to 2.4GHz and stay there forever.

It does seem like the scheduled reboot is more successful (perhaps resets more parameters), so I’ll try this first.

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[UK Sentinel]

Jonathan Morris wrote:

It does seem like the scheduled reboot is more successful (perhaps resets more parameters), so I’ll try this first.

Absolutely – I have dropped ASUS an email regarding ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 (AX) updates so fingers crossed for positive news

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

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[Jacky Decoster]

in dutch there’s a saying : ‘Hoop doet leven’, in english this would be something like ‘ Hope springs eternal’ ? (according to google translate)

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[dodgydrains]

Looks like a few Asus routers have got updates recently:

ASUS RT-AX86U Firmware version 3.0.0.4.386.46061 (11th Jan 2022)

ASUS RT-AX88U Firmware version 3.0.0.4.386.46065 (12th Jan 2022)

ASUS RT-AX58U Firmware version 3.0.0.4.386.47029 (5th Jan 2022)

ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 v3.0.0.4.386.46065 (11th Jan 2022)

Some of the changelog mentioned: ‘Improved the connection stability’.

Hope the XT8 is in the same update plans

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[dodgydrains]

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/ZenWiFi_XT8/FW_ZENWIFI_XT8_300438646061.zip

If you are interested in testing the new firmware:

ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 Firmware version 3.0.0.4.386.46061
Security
– Fixed string format stacks vulnerability
– Fixed cross-site-scripting vulnerability
– Fixed informational vulnerability.
Thanks to Howard McGreehan.

-Fixed SQL injection vulnerability
-Fixed json file traversal vulnerability
-Fixed plc/port file traversal vulnerability
-Fixed stack overflow vulnerability
Thanks to HP of Cyber Kunlun Lab

-Fixed authenticated stored XSS vulnerability
Thanks to Luke Walker – SmartDCC

-Fixed LPD denial of service vulnerability
-Fixed cfgserver heap overflow vulnerability
-Fixed cfgserver denial of service vulnerability
Thanks to TianHe from BeFun Cyber Security Lab.

Added more ISP profile
Digi 1 – TM
Digi 2 – TIME
Digi 3 – Digi
Digi 4 – CTS
Digi 5 – ALLO
Digi 6 – SACOFA
Maxis – CTS
Maxis – SACOFA
Maxis – TNB/ALLO

Fixed AiMesh guest network issues.
Fixed DDNS issues where the WAN IP is IPv6
Fixed UI bugs in Administration –> feedback.
Fixed time zone error.
Improved the connection stability.

Please unzip the firmware file first then check the MD5 code.
MD5:f578a0940b97337f7f377d93f479c1c1

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[UK Sentinel]

Great news – ASUS new release, explains why I have had not feedback from them

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

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[Jacky Decoster]

ok, i’ve installed the new firmware : thanks for the heads-up.

I’ll feedback my findings (video streaming from nas, teams meetings, etc…)

 

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[Jacky Decoster]

and…. first interruption when streaming video from nas happened already… so back to 42095 for me :-(

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[dodgydrains]

Jacky Decoster wrote:

and…. first interruption when streaming video from nas happened already… so back to 42095 for me :-(

Oh come on ASUS

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[UK Sentinel]

Jacky Decoster wrote:

and…. first interruption when streaming video from nas happened already… so back to 42095 for me :-(

Maybe worth a factory reset, just to remove all other possibilities, only true way to verify if indeed firmware is good

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

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[Jacky Decoster]

“Yes but no” : tried that last time. took a while to set things right again… with same result… so, staying with 42095 for now… any other volunteers willing to try ?

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[UK Sentinel]

Understandable 😇

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[dodgydrains]

I have already updated to latest FW and factory reset.  I’ll be testing teams next week.  Not holding much hope but the initial setup after factory reset was quick compared to previous FW.

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[Jonathan Morris]

dodgydrains wrote:

I have already updated to latest FW and factory reset. I’ll be testing teams next week. Not holding much hope but the initial setup after factory reset was quick compared to previous FW.

I’m going to wait until I find out if Teams works before taking a punt on this.

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[dodgydrains]

Initial testing on Microsoft Teams is good.  I have had several Teams meeting and so far no connection drops over wifi.

I will carry on testing for the rest of the week before coming to any conclusions.

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