Usually IT stuffs gets cheaper over time.

However, do you notice that Asus routers price going up lately? Very strange.

When I first bought N14UHP, it was RM249 and I used Lazada RM30 coupon to bring it down to RM219. Now they are listing RM289~300'ish. What's going on?

I also want to know the status for RT-N12HP support as well.

I went to Asus support page for the original RT-N12HP and it gave me missing page error each time. Even for Malaysia site, it display the firmware for the newer revision B1.

Has Asus officially discontinue support for the old RT-N12HP?

So what about my older version 12HP?

I downloaded all from website, OLD and B1 and both also cannot flash.

What is the current status for OLD 12HP? EOL'ed? No more support?

Did you try out to change the setting in the iPhone/iPad instead?

Starting iOS 7, there is this Background App Refresh in Settings>General. Just double check the Whatsapp background app refresh is on and in the Background App Refresh that Whatsapp is included.

Then you shall on it. Turn it on and turn it on for Whatsapp and any other messaging app that needed internet connection

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Nov 14 2014, 01:47 AM

My current Firmware Version:3.0.0.4.374_430

As you can see from my screenshot, I selected the original 12HP without the B1, but the firmware being available for download from Asus site is the B1 version which gave me an error everytime I tried to flash it.

Even the international site show Page not found when I tried to click on the search result for RT-N12HP support page

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Nov 17 2014, 10:31 AM


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@AsusMY

Hi. I just came across a report that say Maxis FTTH speed was halved when using Asus router. I doubled check with mine and was surprised to find the same thing. I never really had this problem before but now I have confirmed it myself that it is happening.

Will Asus do some test and come back with an answer for this?

Found the culprit. Apparently the Smart QOS crippled half of the available bandwidth when doing speedtest. This didnt happen with previous firmware. I wonder what changed. I disabled it for the time being.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Nov 21 2014, 01:40 AM

@AsusMY

I want to ask if its better to use 14UHP as base with another 14UHP/12HP as wifi repeater or 14UHP with wifi extender such as RPN53?

AsusMY,

Let me help you update on RT-N12HP firmware update issue that I raised not too long ago. Asus has finally fired the incompetent webmaster and fix the whole problem of mistaken identity.

On another note, Lazada offering 10% off Asus router today with LAZ10 code. Bought another 2 N14UHP to help my parents cover their double storey house. Tried with mine and it has some problem covering the whole bottom floor with the router on 1st floor. Both floor were separated which make it tad much harder. RM232 after discount not too bad, even though my first one only cost RM219 after RM30 rebate.

Actually the location of the router matters more. By placing the router at one end of the corner, you risking losing about half of the coverage, even before you minus the wall penetration etc. Just imagine the coverage as a sphere and where is the ideal placement in order to get the best penetration to all the floors.

Im using this router too, and were trying them out for my parents' new house which has two separated floors. I cant get the ideal router placement, therefore I was forced to buy another one to extend the coverage.

@AsusMY

Just received 2 unit of RT-N14UHP from Lazada.

I'm surprised that now they have antenna holder bracket that were lacking in first batch. Possible to get those?

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Dec 10 2014, 03:10 PM


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Just a little update on using 2 RT-N14UHP to cover two storey house.

I had Unifi setup on my brother upper floor, close to the front of the house. The repeater unit was placed in the middle of the lower floor (after some trials). I tried placing the repeater directly below my brother's unit but it was not satisfactory. Im guessing clients having difficulty choosing which one to connect since signal strength was so-so even for both. Once I moved the repeater to the middle of the house, now clients were able to connect to the repeater which boost much stronger signal and result was pretty good. Speedtest confirmed that I was able to get 12~14Mbps out of my VIP20 even when piercing through few walls on lower floor.

I believe you can use Wireless MAC Filter to accept only devices listed in your list and reject all others.

Is it recommended to set at 40MHz? If Im not mistaken, iOS devices are limited to 20MHz only. Setting to 40MHz will cause them unable to connect.

Just to update on another Asus wifi product that I bought recently from Lazada. It is the USB WiFi adapter USB-N14. Got it cheap since I used some coupon code and end up only paying RM40 for it.

The device is really slim, with a micro usb cable and two 5dBi antenna. I think maybe Asus should include a piece of double sided tape to secure the base station since it is a little light and without rubber feet. I would prefer a longer USB cable so that I can tape the station on my table instead of having it on the CPU casing.

Back to the performance, it was able to detect much more routers than before. On my phone, ipad or Dlink DWA-140, I was only able to detect 3-4 of my closest neighbours routers, but now it can detect about 15 routers. Pretty impressive. Not to mention one of them was a petrol station which is about 200m away from my home.

Did some speed test with my FTTH 10Mbps. Downloads were max but I find it surprising the upload is a bit slower than expected. It was fluctuating a lot around 5-8Mbps and the wifi adapter is basically just beside the router. I even tried streaming movies from my Nexus 10 and it is indeed very not stable. It would stream fine for few minutes and then stuck forever.

I thought this would be a 2T2R but I could be wrong here.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Dec 22 2014, 12:17 PM

I believe you forget to Tick the Special ISP Requirement at the bottom of the page where you select PPPOE. It will pop a selection box where you can select Unifi-Home. Its a VLAN tagging feature that must be used in order to utilize Unifi/FTTH.

Sorry, I dont really get what is NAT Loopback?

Is it port forwarding to open specific port for torrent?