Asus RT-N56U owners

deshepherd · 18 Dec 2012 at 13:27

Quick question on RT-N56U ... I've got it standing vertically on its stand as I want it to be primarily concentrating it signal in a horizontal plane .... however is the a benefit on how it is "rotated" - i.e. should its front surface be perpendicular to the main direction I want the signal to go in (its effectively in the corner of our house), or should it be in line with that direction or doesn't it matter. If it had a single aerial then it wouldn't matter but with multiple aerials are there any issues like avoiding have them "in a line" in the direction?

Gammawolf · 30 Dec 2012 at 20:16

Does anyone know of a firmware that unlocks the higher 5GHz bands on the router?

mrk · 30 Dec 2012 at 20:19

I thought this was dual band and thus had 2.4 and/or 5GHz usable?

According to Asus' website it supports 5GHz band out the box.

kona786 · 30 Dec 2012 at 20:55

Perhaps he means a greater selection of 5GHz bands.

ChrisD. · 30 Dec 2012 at 23:30

Gammawolf said:
Does anyone know of a firmware that unlocks the higher 5GHz bands on the router?

How do you mean 'higher'?

Gammawolf · 31 Dec 2012 at 00:11

Yeah sorry, ment the higher ones within the 5Ghz such as 149, 153, 157, 161 and 165.

tigerstyle · 31 Dec 2012 at 11:59

Gammawolf said:
Yeah sorry, ment the higher ones within the 5Ghz such as 149, 153, 157, 161 and 165.

Can't you set the router to be 'in' Asia/US+Canada/Europe?
Can with the custom firmware, but I'm not sure if that gets what you want, need to look into it really!

IvanDobskey · 1 Jan 2013 at 19:48

Having a few problems with a Toshiba Satellite L300 laptop when connecting to the wifi. Unless I force the RT-N56U wifi to legacy it just doesn't work properly. I know the laptop doesn't support wireless n but i'd have thought configured to auto it would just use wireless g?

Nismo · 2 Jan 2013 at 19:02

IvanDobskey said:
Having a few problems with a Toshiba Satellite L300 laptop when connecting to the wifi. Unless I force the RT-N56U wifi to legacy it just doesn't work properly. I know the laptop doesn't support wireless n but i'd have thought configured to auto it would just use wireless g?

With my GFs Dell work laptop, I had to manually set the wireless channel (auto wouldn't work) and also assign it a fixed IP address via the router.