Hey! It depends, if you're satisfied with the performance, I think you should just stick with the stock firmware. However, if you're feeling adventurous and willing to take a small risk of bricking the router, I do recommend you to flash the Merlin firmware for the added features. It's a small risk but I did brick my router after performing the factory reset. So, don't ever perform the factory reset.

After flashing with Merlin, I have no issues at all. Everything works as intended after following the guide I posted earlier. I just haven't tested HyppTV but I guess it should work. No cons so far.

Got steps how flash to asus merlin?

u nid to find the IPTV setting somewhere at WAN

okok good to hear!

Anyone notice signal very weird on merlin?

haha more try more success! the stock firmware already good but if u want more feature and fancier UI. but I did notice is poor signal by flashing Merlin!

Trying to upload more than 5 times now. Keep load until 80%++ and timeout.

It's good that you can read Chinese, it took me a few rounds of reading the translated page to fully understand the guide.

I started with firmware RT-AC68U_378.56_beta2-X5.7-20151017 as in the guide. Then, I upgraded to RT-AC68U_380.59_X6.6.1 by using the Merlin's firmware upgrade page under Administration. Lastly, I upgraded to RT-AC68U_380.70_0-X7.9.

I guess you can skip 380.59_X6.6.1 and go directly to 380.70_0-X7.9, but you gotta add the Webshell app manually under 'Koolshare Merlin software center'. I think it's important that you start with 378.56 as the base firmware though, so don't skip this firmware.

Hi bro, it is koolshare merlin firmware right ?
Which version is this ?