Looking for the most reliable WiFi router with <50 devices. In the vicinity there are a lot of radio equipment.

Currently on Asus RT-AC86U and experience major connection drops.

The place is a Guard House/Guard Post.

Did you guys set up your LAN on DHCP or static IP?

I use static IP as an additional layer of barrier if someone was able to hack my wifi pwd

But troublesome as new device setup has additional step to configure the wifi settings

Before you do that, make sure to take into account of "private address" feature on apple devices, or of any other manufacturer. in case your dhcp server will refuse your future restricted MAC addresses.

I wanted to upgrade the network card but later found that my laptop comes with only 1 antenna cable which limits the network card options. After some research, I found that the Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11b/g/n/ac (1x1) is the only AC card that works with one antenna cable. Would this be a good upgrade? Or should I get USB adapters like TP-Link T9UH instead? Another option would be to add an additional antenna cable which then I am able to pick newer/better network cards, but that is pretty technical and complicated for me so i'm not really considering that approach.

Thanks in advance.

Does this only happen with HP laptops? Or is there any other brand that does this as well? Just for my own knowledge so I can avoid these brands in the future.

Ok so if i understand correctly, you are suggesting to disable IPV6 here right?


and from router side it seems disabled by default:

So ipv6 on router confirmed is disabled and MTU adjustment not helping. By any chance, do you have another wifi router (old TM router is disconnected?) on the network? Check for multiple DHCP servers. Also check for devices manually set to the same IP addresses.

So first week was ok then next week xboleh? Weird.

And what would Bi-bimbap look for in the routing table?

hmm, my default route is 58.27.111.166. is there any issues with that?

ok so after using a few days, it seems enabling ipv6 somehow fixed the issue. (i enabled it only last friday evening), didn’t face any issues on my devices anymore and things load way faster. i didn’t get to try the above suggestions yet as i was away, after came back realised that everything is working fine again and the only changes i made so far were - changing MTU & MRU from 1492 to 1480 (which had no effect when i changed it) and enabling IPV6 in router settings.

i do have some follow up questions though - are there any implications with keeping it enabled? will it cause any incompatibility or such? and curious why it’s disabled by default by Asus if it’s actually needed?

ok, will enable that as well, by default it is disabled. i left all the settings by default just to ensure basic functionality works fine before i add on the rest.
also - is there a way to know whether IPV6 needs to be enabled? (let's say i do change to another brand router in the future) or only by trial and error?

Looks like only the older, discontinued models are affected and only affect a small group of customer.

I suspect it's because these customers are running on much older firmware and didn't update their router firmware frequently.

Hopefully ASUS can come out with a solution soon.

Hi seniors, I'm still researching & I was watching TP Link Malaysia YouTube channel on how to link XE75/BE65 to Unifi using Dynamic IP, does this mean, I would not utilise the capable hardware of XE75/BE65 when its using Dynamic IP mode?

After reading a few pages from this thread, it looks like the consensus is that the ASUS RT-AX86U Pro is a good router. And since my original Unifi TP Link AC1200 looks like it's dying soon (Frequently reboots itself, sudden speed drops), I placed an order for the ASUS.

I just hope that it solves my problems and hopefully this is a good enough deal. Please ignore the mousepad. Lol