Found it. Thanks man
By the way, why aren't you using the Asus DDNS?
It'll enable you to access your router from anywhere

Except my office where the company firewall blocks all DDNS

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Jul 18 2016, 02:07 PM

Go to tools, it is somewhere at the middle of the page

I'm still new to networking stuff, so much to learn. Will try it when I'm back home. Thanks

That's a default local IP address when you don't have dual WAN. Most of us only one unifi account I'm sure.

Has anyone here tried a USB 3 external hard drive on the router? How much is the transfer rate?

Already tried. Tested transferring a 6GB file. Getting 15 ~ 25MB/s only

Just ignore the ip address 169.254.*, the 169.254.*.* is belong to VLAN 500 interface, since it can't get the IP for VLAN 500 interface, it assigned itself Automatic Private IP Addressing which is 169.254.*.*

LAN3 is for VoiP (network phone from Maxis) as stated during the setup. I am using LAN4. Funny thing is i only can access the NAS via IP address (with all function), but not the Synology NAS Assistant .

hurm no improvement over usb2. I wonder whether if it's because of file format or it's just a normal router limitation.

My USB 3.0 HDD is on NTFS, not sure if the speed will improve if I change to EXT4
My computer is connected to the router using direct cable at gigabit speed

good to know

anyone got a DNS problem? i can ping youtube in router page but cannot from dektop PC, and also affects most websites

have tried flushdns cache, renew adapters, reboot router, still cannot solve

Are you on the stock firmware?

I have the same issue on the stock firmware. Weird bug indeed. A reboot solve the problem but it is very annoying when it happens.

waiting full review...

no, i'm on asuswrt

it worked well after flashing to asuswrt, few days later now this, i'm guessing its dns issue but not sure

i use back by asus router and no issues at all, at desktop and router, unifi ip

So is future support/development of xwrt-vortex for Huawei WS880 discontinued?

It may be some minor bug in the ported firmware. Try messing around with the custom DNS settings.

Apparently, it is no longer updated for quite a while. Tomato is still being updated by the author.

i think that's okay. Asus-based firmware is quite polished. Unless you are pro users, I don't think we need to regularly update. My office internet is using RT-66U and the firmware is from 2011. Plus,some of of user-facing features like USB/downloader/Apple Time machine backup are much better in Asus compared to regularly updated OpenWRT.

Removed for wrong quote.

Didnt you guys read?? I already posted the solution. Some adapter are not working fine with WS880.

Search for LAN>DHCP... there you can set DNS manually... then just enter google DNS la...

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Jul 18 2016, 06:07 PM

So many of you simply ask for help but didn't provide the necessary info such as the firmware version/build, IPv4/IPv6 etc. until have to be asked several time. If you are lazy to search for answers, please don't be lazy to provide the crucial info when asking for help. Nobody knows the details unless you provide it. You will ended getting replies based on their assumptions which may not applicable for you.

1. Ping can be blocked by firewall or routing issue. Don't simply assume cannot ping means DNS problem.
2. To check for DNS problem, use nslookup command instead of ping. If you get similar replies using the router & your pc, then it shouldn't be DNS problem.
3. Did you ping using IPv6? If the IPv6 address of the router changed due to restart or WAN reconnection, your pc existing IPv6 address may no longer valid until the lease time expired, released/renewed or reconnected to your router. Until then, any routing on IPv6 from your pc to internet will fail.


Actually Asus already announced they will change their firmware format to lockdown and comply with the FCC rules. They finally introduced it recently and AsusWRT-Merlin based on that version is still in beta, so I wouldn't be surprised if Xwrt-Vortex will wait until stable version come out. Another thing is there is no publicly available source code for XWRT-Vortex modifications, so we can't compile it ourself.

Tomato-ARM main issue is they backported the kernel & drivers from AsusWRT. A lot of things just broken and unrealiable as it were incompatible with their existing code base. Yes, they fixed most of it but some stability issue still persist & I won't recommend people using it unless they want to use it purely as access point or just don't care. Updated more frequently so what? Most of the updates were on the 3rd party packages & minor fixes. I prefer Toastman build over Shibby's on Broadcom MIPS platform as Shibby's tend to favour more features unlike Toastman's more conservative build.

I'm not a fan of AsusWRT-Merlin firmwares, but they are the more reliable option for Broadcom ARM based Asus routers & they can do most of the things I wanted from a home wireless router.

Nahh, just give him a few more days / weeks
I'm sure he'll come up soon

After all, the jump is not that high from 380.58 to 380.59
Unless we're left at 370, then can consider discontinued already lar

Maybe he's busy

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Jul 18 2016, 04:52 PM