Merlin firmware on n66u far better signal strength

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Just a quick heads up..

I was running the latest stock firmware on my Asus rt-n66u router and on 5ghz wireless connected to my Pc upstairs through some thick walls i was getting a signal strength between 62-64dbm according to inssider.

Ive just put Merlin's latest firmware (7th june) onto the router and the signal strength has gone to 53dbm, far stronger signal and much better connection.

So if anyone is running this router and is having poor signal strength with the stock firmware its well worth changing over to merlin's.
 
What download speeds do you get compared to wired?
I have the ac66u and get around 65 to 70db from around 5 metres away from the router and through one brick wall, yet my download speeds are 70Mb compared to 75Mb wired.

How are you managing to get it so low? Is Insider even accurate and reliable?
 
Inssider is supposed to be acurate and i believe it is as my windows wireless bar was only showing 4 bars before installing merlin and after im getting the full 5 bars.

Not sure why its made such a difference but it has, im getting the same full download speed via 5ghz as i do via wired.
Ive got virgin 152mb and off-peak using speedtest.net im showing 160mb/s via wireless :)

Just checked again im im showing 54db..

Ive got a tplink wn4800 pci wireless card in my desktop but ive got much better signal strength after installing the merlin firmware.
 
I'm just using my tablet, phone and in built Wifi on my laptop to test the signal. Compared to what you listed it doesn't have that many antennas so maybe that is where the problem lies?
 
Hi guys, isnt anyone able to help me set up my Asus 68u router to use sky fiber? I know I have to use the BT openreach modem.. but what's the next step ?

Any help would be great...

cheers
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Just a quick heads up..

I was running the latest stock firmware on my Asus rt-n66u router and on 5ghz wireless connected to my Pc upstairs through some thick walls i was getting a signal strength between 62-64dbm according to inssider.

Ive just put Merlin's latest firmware (7th june) onto the router and the signal strength has gone to 53dbm, far stronger signal and much better connection.

So if anyone is running this router and is having poor signal strength with the stock firmware its well worth changing over to merlin's.
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That's because Merlin compiles the firmware with "engineering mode" selected. No one is really sure what it does, but generally people found it better.

There is speculation that Asus had to change the power setting when Linksys/Netgear complained that Asus were getting better reviews by not quite sticking to the regulations, and that EM puts it back to where it was before.

There's also be quite a few changes in the Broadcom closed source wifi driver, but no one that has access to the source is talking.
 
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