[pavlf]

Maybe this explains why it’s all a bit of a mess? This router was launched with promises it looks unlikely asus are going to keep. I can’t say I’ve been impressed so far.

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Have you seen this?

‘The DSL-AC88U does not run Asuwrt, therefore AiMesh support is highly unlikely to ever happen’.

‘Flotueur said: ↑
Thanks for your input! If the dsl-ac88u is not running Asus wrt, what is it running?

RMerlin: Another firmware, maybe it was developed by another company… I don’t know the details, only that the source code was not the regular Asuswrt code’.

‘I think that device’s firmware is based on OpenWRT’

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/dsl-ac88u-firmware-maturity-question-and-stability-vs-dsl-ac68u.48951/page-2

 

 

 

 

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Well on 586 I’ve noticed some pretty hefty spikes in cpu usage on both cores whilst nothing at all is happening – I’ve never turned on AI protection, not moving any files, no torrents, no streaming. I’ve attached a screen shot of one such instance. I didn’t see this happening on the 585 beta. Does anyone know if the 585 official is any different to the 585 beta?

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[pavlf]

Fingers crossed it doesn’t come to that. So far so good with the new beta anyhow. But then 585 was fine for 30 days …

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I’ve been looking at the log, but it only goes back an hour at a time so unless I catch something happening as it happens I’ve got no chance. I assume that there must be another way of accessing the logs – and what is shown? Right now it shows nothing much, other than info about the VPN and occasional mentions about transmission saving things. I googled a bit to see if there was any info, but all I could see was something about changing level, but I didn’t really understand how to go about doing that.

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I’ve just flashed the 586 beta in the hopes that it sorts our whatever was happening with the reboots. I was away last night, but it had rebooted at least once before I left, and again while I was away as this AM it had only been up for three hours. So it was completely stable for a month and then began this repeated reboot thing. I’ve no idea what causes it. Fingers crossed 586 sorts it. Looking good so far.

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Well, after saying yesterday mine was fine and that I didn’t want to tempt fate, it rebooted three hours ago. I think this would have been close to 30 days up time. No idea what happened. Will try the new beta when I get home.

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No, nothing there. Either a) they are packing the firmware full of exciting new features b) they’ve discovered loads of bugs that need putting right c) are far too busy doing other stuff for more recent routers or d) the paranoid option, they are delaying the release to make it seem like it’s substantially different to 585. I’d go for c myself.

Aside from the inexplicable reboots I experienced over a month ago – never repeated – I’m happy with 585 anyway. I don’t want to tempt fate, but everything I need is working …

 

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[pavlf]

I hope ‘based upon’ isn’t a euphemism for ‘is’ ;-)

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Fingers crossed some improvements are coming soon.

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