› UKTH forums › ๐ Wireless Routers & Modems › ASUS & Wireless › 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.ย Has anyone used this and does it...
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- March 20, 2024 at 10:11 pm #31459. dodgydrains Said:
I dirty flashed over FW 388_24609 without any issues with an uptime of around 24 hours.
Same here, but just did it so about 24 minutes of up time. Seems like primarily a security vulnerability fix vs performance issues.
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March 21, 2024 at 7:44 am #31462Good news so far for the new XT8 Version 3.0.0.4.388_24621 firmware

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March 21, 2024 at 10:48 am #31466after update to latest firmware, i’m experiencing some strange behaviour :
every 5 seconds or so, this message is put in the log :
21 11:46:41 kernel: usbnet_thread created successfully
i have a dual wan (with a huawei 4G stick ) and suppose it’s linked to this/
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March 21, 2024 at 1:40 pm #31467‘usbnet’ as you correctly thought, is USB related and if the only peripheral USB item you are using is the Huawei 4G stick then that’s the cause of the logs.
Nothing to worry about but I realise the repeated log entries are very annoying.
If log messages become annoying, Under Advanced Settings > WAN > Dual WAN is the option for Detect Interval which is defaulted to 5 seconds (I think) change this to another value as I assume this is causing the log message.
But changing this value, does impact WAN failover etc.
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March 21, 2024 at 1:54 pm #31468March 23, 2024 at 12:16 pm #31603Only issues I have seen online is where XT8 nodes had been difficult to update, after XT8 Primary node was updated, but once all where updated, stability and usability was good.
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March 23, 2024 at 2:02 pm #31604. UK Sentinel Said:Only issues I have seen online is where XT8 nodes had been difficult to update, after XT8 Primary node was updated, but once all where updated, stability and usability was good.
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I agree. I got alerted that a new update is available for the main node, but the 2nd node says itโs already got the latest even if itโs not.
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April 20, 2024 at 3:31 am #31953. robgbc Said:AiMesh AP mode:
Manually upgraded secondary node and then primary and afterwards, manually power cycled each device.
24hrs later, mesh is stable and logs look normal, no connection issues. Main node speed test good 850x100mbps
Logged in this evening and up-time is 30.5 days. Wireless performance remains normal and nothing unusual showing in the logs over the past 10 days. 3.0.0.4.388_24621 seems solid.
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April 20, 2024 at 9:22 am #31957Great news and thanks for sharing

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May 19, 2024 at 4:30 pm #32259May 19, 2024 at 4:54 pm #32260. robgbc Said:Well, if this is the final fw for this system, Asus appears to have gotten it right.
60 days up time in AiMesh AP mode!
Wireless backhaul 1441 hours connection time
RAM 193 MB free
26 clients
I haven’t had my mesh mode drop to 2.4GHz once, so I’m extremely happy they finally fixed it!
That’s with 80MHz for the back haul, as I don’t think it will ever work well for me on 160 given I’m 15 miles or so from an International airport.
Going forward I am hoping Wi-Fi 7 equipment comes down to a reasonable price. No rush though, as only my phones support it (the devices that need it least) and I’m not intending to go above 1Gbps fibre until those prices also fall.
Fingers crossed my equipment will just sit and do what it is supposed to do without intervention for the foreseeable.
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May 19, 2024 at 5:49 pm #32261A few more firmware releases for the XT8 yet, not EoL

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May 19, 2024 at 6:56 pm #32262. UK Sentinel Said:A few more firmware releases for the XT8 yet, not EoL

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I definitely hope this is not EoL yet.ย ASUS have finally sorted out the FW on the XT8.
Shame about the bad press ASUS are getting with the repairs and customer services shenanigans on YouTube.
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May 20, 2024 at 8:01 am #32263Luckily, (not for some) this is US based, not EU/UK.
Personnel never had experience of ASUS’s RMA (warranty) and any real problems/issues I can chat with them directly

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