Anyone Using an Asus DSL-AC68U

michty_me said:
Well I accidently purchased a D6400 that has a months return policy of 'as best as it can be' so that sounds reasonable to me.
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Oooo did you have a Asus previously or not (sorry i can not remember) if you did then...

Does SNR fluctuate on the Netgear like the Asus?
Does the Netgear stats make mention if you are or are not G.INP'd (was always fuzzy at best on the Asus)?
Any improvement to speed within a 48 hour period over the Asus?
Changes to amount of interleaving applied?
Ping times compared to the Asus?

So much more but those are a start ;)
 
I'm in Norway until tomorrow night. Its due to arrive Saturday so will post a set if stats from each device. I got a second hand dsl-ac68u from a friend and had it a week. On the hg612 it was stable with a solid snr and good sync for my line. After hooking up the Asus I have a fluctuating SBR between 4 and 7db. I've also lost 4.5mb sync using the Asus. I'll post up both sets of stats and see how we go. Anything else you want me to check just put up a list and I'll get to it.
 
bitsNbobs said:
Oooo did you have a Asus previously or not (sorry i can not remember) if you did then...

Does SNR fluctuate on the Netgear like the Asus?
Does the Netgear stats make mention if you are or are not G.INP'd (was always fuzzy at best on the Asus)?
Any improvement to speed within a 48 hour period over the Asus?
Changes to amount of interleaving applied?
Ping times compared to the Asus?

So much more but those are a start ;)
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I am testing a Netgear D6400 on my line at the moment and yes it supports G.INP and states it does in dslstats32W-5.5 program, also after 24 hours of using it DLM kicked in and it retrained and I got 3ms better pings, Interleave Depth dropped from 16/8 to 8/4, I did not think line could get any better so it is strange indeed.

SNR does not seem to fluctuate at least not by hardly anything.

So far am tempted to give the ASUS to a friend of mine but he is on ADSL2 and so far most people seem to give the ASUS a bad review on ADSL2, anybody had good results on ADSL2 with the ASUS?
 
Been following this thread for some time now, first post on this forum, however. Bought the DSL-AC68U about a week ago and immediately updated to the latest firmware. Got round to using it for a full 48 hours and it caused me to drop from Fastpath to Interleaved and my ping went from 7ms to 20ms as well as dropping sync speed from 64mbps to 58mbps.

In the settings, I followed Ixel's advice of setting ESNP to stable beforehand as well but this did nothing to halt several large CRC bursts (and presumably ES bursts). :(

In process of returning the Asus and meanwhile I have ordered a Netgear D6400 which will be arriving tomorrow. Will keep posted on the difference that the new router makes as some seem interested in this potentially more stable alternative.
 
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michty_me said:
I'm in Norway until tomorrow night. Its due to arrive Saturday so will post a set if stats from each device. I got a second hand dsl-ac68u from a friend and had it a week. On the hg612 it was stable with a solid snr and good sync for my line. After hooking up the Asus I have a fluctuating SBR between 4 and 7db. I've also lost 4.5mb sync using the Asus. I'll post up both sets of stats and see how we go. Anything else you want me to check just put up a list and I'll get to it.
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Cheers m8, look forward to the compare oh and if Norway is a holiday hope you have a nice time :)

mjgr33n said:
I am testing a Netgear D6400 on my line at the moment and yes it supports G.INP and states it does in dslstats32W-5.5 program, also after 24 hours of using it DLM kicked in and it retrained and I got 3ms better pings, Interleave Depth dropped from 16/8 to 8/4, I did not think line could get any better so it is strange indeed.

SNR does not seem to fluctuate at least not by hardly anything.

So far am tempted to give the ASUS to a friend of mine but he is on ADSL2 and so far most people seem to give the ASUS a bad review on ADSL2, anybody had good results on ADSL2 with the ASUS?
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Keep the Asus, disable DHCP, set its IP to one different to the Netgear (IE if the netgear is 198.168.1.1 set the Asus to 198.168.1.2) connect it with a LAN cable back to the Netgear and if the Asus has a bridge mode you instantly have a very powerful wifi extender + a 4 port switch :D One upstairs and one downstairs. Thats what i do with old routers which would otherwise not be used
 
Not a problem, just got an email saying delivered tomorrow too. No one will be in to collect. Hope they leave it somewhere instead of having to go collect.
Unfortunately Norway is for work. Beautiful place though so its all good. Its just a bit harsh having to hand over about £10 for a pint.
 
bitsNbobs said:
Keep the Asus, disable DHCP, set its IP to one different to the Netgear (IE if the netgear is 198.168.1.1 set the Asus to 198.168.1.2) connect it with a LAN cable back to the Netgear and if the Asus has a bridge mode you instantly have a very powerful wifi extender + a 4 port switch :D One upstairs and one downstairs. Thats what i do with old routers which would otherwise not be used
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Yeah I actually used to do that with old Netgear D6300 till I took it to Ukraine and gave it to a friend. Also used an ASUS DSL-N55U like that as the DSL part of it sucked ass, but now have a nice Linksys 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch upstairs with a Netgear WAC120 Wireless AC Access Point and 2 PC's attacked.

Downstairs with the Netgear D6400 got my Windows 2012R2 Server next to Sofa, got a Samsung BD-F7500 3D Ultra HD Smart Blu-ray/DVD Player networked up, also got OWL networked up, this is what the Solar panels connect to etc. Could connect the Sony TV also but would be pointless as the Samsung Player does a much better job.

All in all I am very happy with the Netgear D6400, will definitely keep it, the ASUS although good at first has started to go downhill, as more people connected in our neighbourhood and as they are building a new estate of houses behind us it has started to fluctuate wildly and does not seem to have coped with the burst noise very well at all.

So unsure whether to give to my friend the ASUS DSL-AC68U or give him my spare Linksys X3500, he is right next to the exchange and on Talk Talk ADSL2. The linksys was definitely more reliable and better with ADSL2, I suppose I could give him both and set the linksys up as a pure modem and the ASUS as a pure router )).
 
I see there is a new Linksys unit coming out that has the modem part built into the power supply unit. Not sure what Linksys are like or on what chip they use. I did hear broadcom.

My d6400 has arrived. So expect initial stats tomorrow. I'll give it a week and then two of stability and update further. Im hoping I've got a weeks worth of stability on the asus for comparison.
 
cheekee said:
Worked it out. It is the current firmware. I downgraded to previous firmware and problem solved.
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Having the same issues with my drive as well. Seems like asus have made a broken modem even more broken.
Also, from another forum, I have heard that Jim-Asus is just Jim these days. This episode to me has been a total waste of money and my time...
 
How do these people manage to make things worse. I'm no firmware writer at all but surely you only tweak items that need tweaking rather than rewriting the whole lot and screwing it up.
Maybe they should just start from scratch as bitsnbobs said they needed to do pages ago.
 
michty_me said:
I see there is a new Linksys unit coming out that has the modem part built into the power supply unit. Not sure what Linksys are like or on what chip they use. I did hear broadcom.

My d6400 has arrived. So expect initial stats tomorrow. I'll give it a week and then two of stability and update further. Im hoping I've got a weeks worth of stability on the asus for comparison.
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Linksys DSL modems have always been the best for me, do you have any links for this information on new router, does it have vdsl modem in?
 
mjgr33n said:
Yeah I actually used to do that with old Netgear D6300 till I took it to Ukraine and gave it to a friend. Also used an ASUS DSL-N55U like that as the DSL part of it sucked ass, but now have a nice Linksys 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch upstairs with a Netgear WAC120 Wireless AC Access Point and 2 PC's attacked.

Downstairs with the Netgear D6400 got my Windows 2012R2 Server next to Sofa, got a Samsung BD-F7500 3D Ultra HD Smart Blu-ray/DVD Player networked up, also got OWL networked up, this is what the Solar panels connect to etc. Could connect the Sony TV also but would be pointless as the Samsung Player does a much better job.

All in all I am very happy with the Netgear D6400, will definitely keep it, the ASUS although good at first has started to go downhill, as more people connected in our neighbourhood and as they are building a new estate of houses behind us it has started to fluctuate wildly and does not seem to have coped with the burst noise very well at all.

So unsure whether to give to my friend the ASUS DSL-AC68U or give him my spare Linksys X3500, he is right next to the exchange and on Talk Talk ADSL2. The linksys was definitely more reliable and better with ADSL2, I suppose I could give him both and set the linksys up as a pure modem and the ASUS as a pure router )).
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Id give him the X3500 if you use wifi as that is only an AC750 device, if you do not use wifi then both will probably be equal or as near as in a wired network, whichever he gets thats a nice little free gift of £70 and up worth of gear :)

michty_me said:
I see there is a new Linksys unit coming out that has the modem part built into the power supply unit. Not sure what Linksys are like or on what chip they use. I did hear broadcom.
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Sounds a bit odd, Modem near a PSU equals interference normally, Skys older revision of the 102 modem/router had issues as the PSU was not shielded enough as an example.

michty_me said:
My d6400 has arrived. So expect initial stats tomorrow. I'll give it a week and then two of stability and update further. Im hoping I've got a weeks worth of stability on the asus for comparison.
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Will be interesting to be able to read how both perform over a course of a week or two and how they perform, will look forward to that :)
michty_me said:
I believe this is it. I'm browsing on my phone so could be wrong. I'll double check when I get on a computer. The DSL modem is built into the PSU.

http://www.linksys.com/gb/p/P-XAC1900/

Edit: pretty sure that's it.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc.../modem-routers/linksys-xac1900-1291735/review

Expensive and slow according to the reviews.
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Hmm unless i missed it (possible as i did not read word for word earlier) is that not ADSL only?
 
bitsNbobs said:
Id give him the X3500 if you use wifi as that is only an AC750 device, if you do not use wifi then both will probably be equal or as near as in a wired network, whichever he gets thats a nice little free gift of £70 and up worth of gear :)
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I don't use a lot of Wi-Fi but he does plus I also built his PC and it has a Wireless AC based PCI-E card from ASUS in it, so he should get some decent speeds from using the ASUS router, certainly a lot better than the Talk Talk POS he has now. Although the signal does have to pass through a floor or 2, so we shall see.

Don't worry about tips on wireless though, I am an IT consultant and have had training from Extricom, they flew out engineers from Israel to give me training many years ago ))) So know all the tricks )))
 
Just thought i would add something and try and help anyone if possible!

I pay for BT infinity and i am on the 80/20 service but only got 70/20. Last night of over a month uptime on the router the speed didnt increase like i thought it would so i played around with a couple of settings.

I turned on - Stability Adjustment to 5db
RX AGC Gain Adjustment - Stable

Turning these on i am now on 75/20.

I hope this may help someone!
 
Ok so here are some initial stats from the Netgear compared to the Asus.

ASUS

lineState=up
Opmode=
SNRMarginDown=5.4 dB
AttenDown=10.9 dB
SNRMarginUp=9.6 dB
AttenUp=3.3 dB
DataRateDown=70665 kbps
DataRateUp=19999 kbps
WanListMode=1
FECDown=684681
FECUp=9599
CRCDown=265
CRCUp=0
HECDown=0
HECUp=0
ADSLUpTime=7 days, 23:05, 12 secs
ADSLActiveTime=0 min, 17 secs
PowerDown=13.7 dbm
PowerUp=6.9 dbm
ATURID=26005443434e0000
ATUCID=b5004244434da485
AttainUp=26923
AttainDown=85196
ShowtimeStart=17
TotalStart=34
ATURANSIRev=0
ATUCANSIRev=0
ATURANSIStd=0
ATUCANSIStd=0
InterleaveDepth=1
AdslStandard=VDSL2
AdslType=ANNEX_B
mtenStandard=G.dmt.bisplus (Annex L)

Netgear

DSLAM/MSAN type: Not reported by modem
Modem/router firmware: AnnexA version - A2pv6F039j.d25d
DSL mode: VDSL2 Profile 17a
Status: Showtime
Uptime:
Resyncs: 0 (since 23 May 2015 12:29:45)

Downstream Upstream
Line attenuation (dB): 17.5 0.0
Signal attenuation (dB): Not monitored
Connection speed (kbps): 74000 20000
SNR margin (dB): 7.0 9.6
Power (dBm): 13.6 7.6
Interleave depth: 16 8
INP: 49.00 47.00
G.INP: Enabled

RSCorr/RS (%): 0.0001 0.0037
RSUnCorr/RS (%): 0.0000 0.0000
ES/hour: 0 0

From the stats it shows that I have gained nearly 4Mb, My SNR is much more stable, Pings have remained the same. I'll update with a week of stats to give a true comparison.
Edit: Sorted the throughput of disconnecting the wireless and rebooting the computer again. Constant 70Mb tests again.
 
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