Bro, I did recommend you that router or the Asus RT-AC1300UHP last time. Glad you took my advice.

I would recommend the C7 v4 as it is newer than the C5 and price is not too expensive.

I would still like to know if it has good performance without all this issue with disconnections that the C1200 has.

I don't want to spend all that money and have it being less reliable than the original DIR-850?

Bro, it would be better than the C1200 and the DIR-850L that’s for sure. I had the C7 v2 and it was rock solid stable, so I expect C7 v4 would be stable as well.

Bro, i have took quite some time looking for a reasonable price and good router,

Archer C7 has many good review all over the world, win quite a number of awards, and recommended by few Sifu here at Lowyat.

unless i get a defective unit, i expect it to perform as it should.

Ya ya, i remember your self and Bro Jjuggler also recommend this model.

online, can find many good reviews, bad review are very less for this model.

V4 has integrate 5G and 2.4G into 3 external antenna, hope the performance is better then V2.

Finally got root access after enabled SSH for this router thanks to help from this forum

https://forum.lede-project.org/t/build-for-...-ac1200/2547/44

Now I can enable back Malaysia bands on AU firmware

Would be grateful if you post the step on enabling back Malaysia bands on AU firmware after getting root access.

What I did is I enabled SSH access by following the thread and then root access, make sure to turn off your firewall in case you're running Windows 10 otherwise it won't work. Afterwards you need to edit /etc/config/wireless, and change the two country options from 'DE' to 'MY', for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. In my case, I have to copy the original file to /tmp before editing it with the default SSH client and then copying it back since in netcat pressing down arrow doesn't seem possible to me with the current /bin/ash.

What I want to do next is try to enable 802.11r FT between these two routers but before that I need to find a way to replace wpad-mini with wpad on that router, as the default filesystem is mounted read-only so I couldn't use opkg to reinstall it.

Lastly, I bricked my router by running



to see if I could restore it to old TM firmware and after a reboot it's not booting up properly anymore. It seems like TFTP is not working for me, when I tried to boot it up all the light just flashes for a second then only the WPS LED lights up. I can go into the Web GUI which we normally get after a failed firmware update but it never goes pass 40%, either showing firmware upgrade failed or firmware not compatible. Anyone with similar experiences know how to fix it or will TM consider this as customer's fault?

This post has been edited by rhytion: Mar 11 2018, 01:06 PM

..........still under warranty? Then I suggest you to totally brick it using one of the method posted in lede forum thread and go claim warranty from TM.....
I think you just overwrite the uboot safeloader section with wrong stuff.



That aside, does the DE-->MY setting persist after router reboot?


EDIT:About that 40% issue, which firmware did you try? EU or TM?

EDIT2:I think you forgot to cut off the first 0x20200 from TM firmware before mtd write.

TM firmware has boot partition
Eu firmware doesn't have boot partition
Can you still ssh to the router? If can, try to cut off the boot partition and mtd write again. But since you already wrote the firmware into the router...well.......

This post has been edited by JohnLai: Mar 11 2018, 01:38 PM

Not really sure if it persists, haven't tried yet. Can't SSH into the router anymore. Tried nearly all firmware from TM and EU and non of them are working sadly. Now waiting for warranty claim from TM.

About that editing /etc/config/wireless, was you doing it via VIM or UCI? Do you reload the wifi interface after applying change?

Actually, the 3 external antennae are for the 5 GHz. The 2.4 GHz antennae are internal.

I did it via vim by connecting through an SSH client without root access, I'm using Bitvise personally, if I run vim directly through the netcat one then the arrow keys just won't work. I just ran wifi to reload the interface afterwards and the changes were applied and shown in web interface.

Anyway, just contacted TM for replacement, hopefully I won't get the trashcan.

This post has been edited by rhytion: Mar 11 2018, 10:36 PM

the 6 antenna is V2

see internal picture from FCC file attached, V2 = 6 antenna, V4 = 3 antenna.



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Well, I used UCI to do so. Channel is successfully changed to 165. (verified via Wifi Analyser).
Unfortunately, the setting doesn't persist after reboot.

Reason being the /etc is mounted as ramfs type file system.





EDIT:

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!
SETTING PERSISTED!!




Ignore the CPU usage, I am torrenting a lot of stuff.



EDIT2: Edited the image to remove private info....

This post has been edited by JohnLai: Mar 12 2018, 12:15 AM

Good job on that.
If you don't mind, can you please explain step-by-step in layman terms?

Extra: Since the previous Beta firmware is the most stable firmware, is it possible to use SSH to modify the annoying 'Beta' background wallpaper?
Then it will solve most of the problems...

Alamak, how am I suppose to explain step-by-step? Using vim alone through Esc, i (case sensitive), ZZ (case sensitive) to save temporary stuff at 10-usb is troublesome enough.

I don't use beta firmware....beside, to remove the background, I think one must delete/replace index.1516775402233.html background? It is possible to modify the Beta background wallpaper. However, the setting will not persist after reboot.

How do you ssh to the router? and what is the login credentials?

Thanks.

Follow the guide at https://forum.lede-project.org/t/build-for-...-ac1200/2547/47

Thanks! Will do!