The T-Mobile AC1900 hacked into AC68U in theory can run stock ASUS firmware which supports AiMesh. However, its likely ASUS will update the CFE in the router once you update to the latest firmware. There are reasons where older ASUS firmware for the AC68U were removed from the official download site. Recent reports are that ASUS will prevent firmware downgrade in the future. Some units of TM1900 were reset back to the original firmware, unable to flash with new firmware, etc. Its to do with the ASUS hardware verification update.

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:15 AM

Merlin had posted that his firmware does not support non ASUS routers, including TM1900 hacks. Portions of the Merlin firmware uses ASUS closed source codes and you really would have no idea what ASUS will do in the future.

Just stay with the version that works and not upgrade.

Things is it will posibble revert back to T-Mobile firmware and not the Asus Ac1900 stock firmware. AC1900 stock firmware is support ai mesh. Not necessary ac68u firmware. Just wanted to test ai mesh.

Still dilemma to whether to gamble for ai mesh or end up getting bricked. 50 50 chances. Too bad ac66u not support ai mesh. My old ac66u laying in the cabinet after upgraded to 86u.

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:16 AM

T-Mobile 1900 hack into the AC68U is not supported. That is why you need to hack the router to load stock ASUS or Merlin firmware. Plenty had been posted by RMerlin including his warnings etc.


This post has been edited by XPS: May 26 2018, 03:38 PM

T-Mobile 1900 is running on a special firmware. Do not believe you can flash an ASUS stock firmware without the hack. It is for all intents not an AC68U according to what had been discussed.

This post has been edited by XPS: May 26 2018, 03:58 PM

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:16 AM

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:17 AM

Why debating ac1900 ac68u?

Ac1900=ac68u=tm ac1900 (locked set)

Ac1900 is detune version of ac68u. Rest is all same. Only some component detune to lower down the cost for marketing gimmick.

T-Mobile is locked set version of ac1900.

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:17 AM

The other reason is licensing payments to component vendors (firmware) for the AC68U which may be different for the TM1900 (specific OEM model made solely for T-Mobile). Of course would not be surprised ASUS will need to lock down (or seen to be actively attempting) the TM1900 to protect against IP claims from the component vendors.

I believe your unit is faulty
These are refurbished units anyway so there are bound to have some faulty unit shipped out

any way to repair to WIFI signal weak ?

ive dlink 868L ...the WIFI suddenly become weak, signal strength drop to 50% ...change new router problem solved ..
the unit out of warranty ...send to repair cost rm250

thanks ...

Buy a 2nd hand or refurbish unit. Waste time repair dlink 868L

yes bought refurbish tmobile AC68....

wonder need to unlock the WIFI signal strength or not ...



thanks...

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:17 AM

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:17 AM

you can solve it by whitelisting few server such as spclient.wg.spotify.com or community maintain whitelist host-list

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/solved-sp...32/#post-331678

I haven't try it though, later I will try it.

This post has been edited by amirsubhi: May 27 2018, 12:04 PM

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This post has been edited by Alex9182: Jun 19 2018, 11:18 AM