[Mrk26]

I was playing with few different settings on QOS and actually the best results I got if I limit speed for my pc(and my son only). I set limit on downstream for 62Mb/s and upstream for 15Mb/s. Ping unloaded on Fast 10ms loaded 12-13ms. Playing online ping nice and stable.

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[Mrk26]

SH wrote:

unloaded 9ms and loaded 15ms = bloat of 6ms , that’s far great compared to 50ms ( lets say your playing games or doing latency sensitive work …. during that time .. somebody starts downloading or uploading photos or videos or watching netflix .. with QOS on you will see increase of 6ms+ with QOS off you will see increase of 50ms+ depending on load … through i can be wrong testing is only way to be sure :D )

I did checked with QOS on and not much difference, maybe other devices don’t use my current internet bandwidth ? I mean ping is not lower it’s pretty much the same, of course I rebooted router once setup QOS. It looks only much better on test, other than that I can’t see much difference. Will see how much improvement will be while uploading video on YouTube.

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[Mrk26]

The only really big jumps in ping I can see only when my son uploading videos to YouTube, otherwise no issues was observed. However this time of the day nobody don’t use Internet in my house 😂, only me don’t sleep with my wife because littleun woke up for bottle and not fancy go back sleep 🙄

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[Mrk26]

Well I actually played with QOS settings yesterday and didn’t see much improvement with adaptive QOS so switched to the traditional with bandwidth limit 68Mb/s for download and 17Mb/s for upload and when I tested on my pc unloaded was 9ms and loaded was 15ms, so I guess is not bad now. Will test later in game to see if it’s better.

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[Mrk26]

Hi @XRW,

I don’t really use wired connection, router is downstairs and all devices are connected wireless.

I didn’t set QOS on mine for now, was testing but wasn’t much difference, that was before I disabled PMF, since then didn’t played with it.

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SH wrote:

@Mrk26 – issue you were having where you were unable to disable PMF in latest Merlin Frimware – 384.14 is not Merlin GUI issue , it’s from ASUS Stock GPL .6436 ….. today i have tested ASUS Stock 3.0.0.4.384.6436 where i was unable to disable PMF even after selecting disable and apply it reverts back to capable @Grisu – yes your right , issue’s are with stock firmware i really hope asus will provide stable firmware next year

Thanks @XRW

Do you know if there is same issue with latest official fw from Asus?

Forgot to mention, once PMF disabled I don’t have ping jumps anymore on my pc, tested on two different modems (zyxel VMG1312-B10A, and old eci unlocked).

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[Mrk26]

I don’t think you can use Ai protection properly on DSL-AC88U, well actually not many things can be turn on, wi-fi settings need to be tweaked for wi fi to working, the only working bit on it is modem.

Asus know about all issues, but looks like they don’t really care about this model. They just proof that they can’t make properly modem-router(or at least software for it) , luckily for they routers is available custom fw.

I know that @Uk Sentinel use dsl-ac88u properly 😅😉

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[Mrk26]

Merry Christmas to you too. 😄

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If is not super urgent I could do more tests after new year (even on stock fw) , I got some time off in first week in January. Happy to help, especially where this maybe helpful in future.

 

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[Mrk26]

Ohh well 😝

Not really fancy to flash fw which may brake down great performance 😅

I’m finally happy with my setup, maybe if I got spare time I will look to play with different modem 😉

@Uk Sentinel

Can you report to Asus that issue with PMF, I’m pretty sure they will see your email faster than mine and hopefully they will consider content of it.

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[Mrk26]

I posted this info on SNB forum, I didn’t see feedback option on Merlin fw. My hw version is 1.1.

So far all nice and smooth on 384.13, since yesterday no issues at all.

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[Mrk26]

I didn’t tried really on stock, original fw on my rt-ax88u was for 5 mins when was powered first time 😂

Since then on Merlin all the time.

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UK Sentinel wrote:

When I loaded ASUSWRT-Merlin 384.14 for my RT-AC86U – Protected Management Frames – was disabled by default and can be set o disabled > capable > required PMF only works with specific hardware formats and for normal home usage, disable is easier. Keep it simple “KIS”

Trouble is that on rt-ax88u on latest Merlin fw I couldn’t save “disable” option, other two was O.K to save.

Now all back to normal 🤩

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[Mrk26]

I can choose all three options but only option “disable” not saving.

@XRW
You are my Hero, or early Santa 😆
Just done dirty flash to 384.13 and I was able to disable on booth 2.4 and 5Ghz and is actually save the settings, all back to how it should be, 70Mb/s download speed on mobile.

Thanks a lot!!!

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[Mrk26]

I got nearly exact settings apart of channel set to 44 (neighbours around don’t use this one) and I don’t have option for region settings.

You said that it was possible to disable protected management frame in previous fw, was that 384.13?

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