Hi - read through the thread but no sure if anyone has the setup I'm planning to build.

About to buy an Asus RT-AC68U, for use with Astro TIME IPTV.

First question, will the router work correctly with the TIME IPTV? I read a couple of responses saying MAXIS IPTV wasn't supported, but is it the same for TIME? I am also using their VoIP phone services. Anything I should know?

Second, I have recently bought a WD TV Live, and I have 2 external HDDs, one 3TB and one 1TB, which I plan to use for the TV series and movies that I download. Question here is, should the HDDs be hooked up to the router or the WD TV Live, especially if I want to use the router's torrent manager to download directly to the external drives?

Third, I currently have a macbook air, a Dell latitude, HP elitebook, 2 galaxy notes, a galaxy note 10.1 and a panasonic plasma P50ST50 connected to my home network. I am planning to add a gaming laptop (most likely Alienware) into the mix very soon. I live in a condo, and as you can expect, the 2.4GHz spectrum is saturated already with crappy Unifi routers. 2 part question:

a) Are there any recommended router settings? Should I just flash to DD-WRT the moment I get the router?
b) I'm planning to set up 2 separate SSIDs, 1 for all the home devices sharing everything, preferably with a non-broadcast SSID. 2nd as a 'guest' network with access only to the internet. Is there a better setup recommended or something I should know before I do this?

I'm already aware of the need for upgrading to the latest firmware as soon as I get the router. Anything else I should keep in mind before I set up the router? Thank you very much in advance!

Anyone?

Hello,

I am hoping you would be able to help me out as I have literally tried out everything and I just think now it's a hardware issue.

I have been using the RT-AC68U since around April 2014 with TIME fiber and Astro IPTV. The setup is that the modem is the original Huawei modem, and I am using the Asus as a wireless router, set up with a 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz network. During this time everything was stable, and I maybe reset my router a few times.

Everything was working fine until November of 2015, when I started getting random disconnect problems with my internet. Please note that there were no changes in my setup or my internet - just one day the wireless network was working but no internet access. Initially I just assumed a restart was required (which fixed the problem for a while) but it started happening regularly.

Every few days in the beginning, the internet would stop working, and I would have to restart the router to get it working again, or run the "internet connection wizard" from inside the router software.

My next step was to upgrade the firmware and see perhaps that would fix it, but nothing changed. Another problem started to occur (independent of firmware), where I am now losing my wireless connection altogether. I will be connected fine, internet working but all of a sudden packets drop and my device are disconnected from the network and I need to restart the router. I have tried searching google using the logs from my router but to no avail. Every time I restart my router, the logs are wiped clean as well, and the logging date is reset to 1st of Aug, and then a message comes after a while saying that a discrepancy of 6583456 minutes or something was detected, then the log dates are fixed until the next restart.

This is not a modem issue either: I tried connecting the Linksys router provided by TIME, and that worked fine for a whole month without any restarts or loss of internet connection.

I have checked the running temperature of my router CPU - it hovers between 96C and 100C. My ambient room temperature is not that high - maybe this could be a reason?

I really have tried everything possible but the last resort seems to be that I will need to return the router under warranty and ask for a replacement? I still have over a year left of the 3 year warranty. I have otherwise been very happy with the router overall, and was even thinking of adding a NAS to my setup. Now I will wait for the router issue to be sorted before moving forward.

Any advice/help regarding fixes or warranty process would be greatly appreciated! I bought the router off the forum here from Mika. Thank you!

Hi both,

Thanks for your replies - I am still having issues and now they are so bad that the internet was disconnecting every 5 minutes or the router kept dropping signals. I have since switched to my Linksys router and everything has been stable for 4 days now - not a single restart or wireless drop.

To answer your question, my firmware version is 3.0.0.4.380.1031 that I downloaded from the Asus website itself, completely reset my router and NVRAM back to factory settings then loaded the firmware on via the recovery tool. Did not make any difference at all.

I've also tried changing to various channels for both my networks but nothing seems to help.

Would you suggest I go about submitting a warranty claim now?