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I see there is an Asus firmware update available now. Unfortunately it looks very minor so I doubt it addresses the CAKE issue.

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Airtime Fairness was not enabled either for the Asus or GNUton firmware tests. I use a very basic setup, without bells and whistles and the Asus firmware is working fine for me. It isn’t even gobbling up the RAM like my DSL-AC88U did. So I will stick with Asus stock firmware until GNUton has had chance to mature.

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Thanks for your comments. I didn’t try adjusting these parameters, although I have disabled Smart Connect as it never worked for me from the beginning – probably because most of my wireless stuff is legacy (802.11n I think). Perhaps I’ll give it another go when there is further GNUton release.

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Yes, I did a factory reset, both pressing and holding the reset button and using the WPS button as recommended by Asus.

It’s really strange that only one wireless device is affected – a Squeezebox Internet Radio – and the other four devices are fine.

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I have tried the latest GNUton firmware. It seemed to work OK apart from a few strange effects (like the firmware links were to the RT firmware instead of the DSL option and selecting the wifi radar tab produced an inaccessible page error). But I had to reflash with the ASUS firmware because one of my wireless devices would connect for a few minutes and then drop when using the GNUton firmware. Rebooting the device would cure this for another few minutes, then it would drop again. There isn’t a problem with this connection when I use the ASUS firmware.

It’s a shame as some of the GNUton additions look interesting.

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Thanks Sentinel

That’s an interesting list of advantages so I will give it a try.

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I have had the ASUS DSL-AX82U router for a few weeks now. I’m currently using the ASUS firmware but wondered what experience other users had with the GNUton Merlin build. Is it worth me changing to this? Are there any issues or problems? (documentation seems to be lacking). Also does it require a factory reset before loading?

Any help and comments would be welcome now the router has had time to settle in.

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