Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 33 Location: New York USA
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 17:10 Post subject:
"Less than 2 months is not several months. Is there any official wording that he gave up?
Frankly speaking I bought R9000 mainly for VPN use as my RT-AC68U was not powerful enough and R9000 had the strongest CPU. Now I think I would go for RT-AC86U (half cheaper) which has 1.8Ghz dual-core (not quad - but that doesn't matter for single thread OpenVPN). Merlin support, development and community help is very good with Asus.
With DD-WRT there seems to be always some issues, problems with PPPoE, problem with VLAN ID setup, which are point and click in Asus."
Wait for rt-ax88u. It's officially announced on Asus website and should appear on the markets shelf soon.
I've done beta-testing for Netgear on a number of occasions. I know that its hardware, at least of those that I tested, are good. But its software dept. is way below standards that I'd expect of s/w developments in a competitive market (routers). Believe me, I told them but not in so many words.
As an example, it has used for sometime now the same web GUI that has confusing functions overlapping basic and advanced features.
Given the above, I think Netgear should have made it EASIER for developers like KONG to port its new and advanced features into DD-WRT. After all, why should Netgear care whether consumers are using its stock firmware or not, AS LONG AS it sells more of its routers, right?
Well, it would appear that Netgear does not think so. It's sad.
Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Posts: 676 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 18:04 Post subject:
DeXB wrote:
There is a new FW from Kong released today. So maybe he didn’t give up?
Seems like we all got his attention finally...
Unfortunately, the firmware is broken, No radio is transmitting.
Edit: Update
It is working. I had to reset the router and setup wireless from scratch. _________________ ASUS GT-BE98 PRO Main: Fiber 5gbps up/down
ASUS AXE16000: AI Mesh node
2 X ASUS RT-AX89X: AI Mesh nodes
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 12-Port 10GbE Switch
XS712T ProSafe 12-Port 10GbE Switch
3 X R9000 DD-WRT Mesh
Last edited by labo on Fri Feb 09, 2018 18:18; edited 1 time in total
Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Posts: 676 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 18:37 Post subject:
Yes, I had to reset. Loading back saved config breaks wireless which doesn't work.
Some compatibility issue between BS and Kong builds
Now will have to everything manually including VPN.. _________________ ASUS GT-BE98 PRO Main: Fiber 5gbps up/down
ASUS AXE16000: AI Mesh node
2 X ASUS RT-AX89X: AI Mesh nodes
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 12-Port 10GbE Switch
XS712T ProSafe 12-Port 10GbE Switch
3 X R9000 DD-WRT Mesh
Yes, I had to reset. Loading back saved config breaks wireless which doesn't work.
Some compatibility issue between BS and Kong builds
Now will have to everything manually including VPN..
You can't beat the convenience of Astrill VPN applet
Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 33 Location: New York USA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 19:57 Post subject:
[quote]"Thanks labo.
If I may add two cents.
I've done beta-testing for Netgear on a number of occasions. I know that its hardware, at least of those that I tested, are good. But its software dept. is way below standards that I'd expect of s/w developments in a competitive market (routers). Believe me, I told them but not in so many words.
As an example, it has used for sometime now the same web GUI that has confusing functions overlapping basic and advanced features.
Given the above, I think Netgear should have made it EASIER for developers like KONG to port its new and advanced features into DD-WRT. After all, why should Netgear care whether consumers are using its stock firmware or not, AS LONG AS it sells more of its routers, right?
Well, it would appear that Netgear does not think so. It's sad."[/quote]
Absolutely agree. I was beta tester as well and many times suggested Netgear to do some Netgear functionality and GUI improvements but they did very little changes or nothing. They prefer to keep the firmware as simple as possible for stability. Watch Netgear reviews on BestBuy, Amazon, NewEgg and other big stores and is difficult to not agree with them.
Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 33 Location: New York USA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 20:07 Post subject:
Newest Kong firmware (34880M) is working well for me but I had to reprogram all settings from scratch. One thing isn't working for me and this issue persist still (I tried many older firmwares Kong's and BS). When I'm enabling QOS and OpenVPN together the router is going to rebooting loop immediately. Disabling OpenVPN solving this issue but I need OpenVPN :cry:
Kong, any suggestions?
Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Posts: 676 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 23:42 Post subject:
I found out the root cause of the Restore Config File not working compatibility issue.
The culprit was the Wireless Security option: "Disable EAPOL Key Retries "
If you have this "Enabled" in your saved config file then all ratios will shutoff once you restore the configuration after update.
To get it back to work, just disable this option.
@Kong,
The latest firmware doesn't work with option:
Disable EAPOL Key Retries: Enabled.
If enabled the Radio shutsoff.
Thanks, _________________ ASUS GT-BE98 PRO Main: Fiber 5gbps up/down
ASUS AXE16000: AI Mesh node
2 X ASUS RT-AX89X: AI Mesh nodes
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 12-Port 10GbE Switch
XS712T ProSafe 12-Port 10GbE Switch
3 X R9000 DD-WRT Mesh
Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Posts: 676 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:34 Post subject:
@Kong,
Just made a paypal donation to keep you motivated on your work towards R9000.
Labo _________________ ASUS GT-BE98 PRO Main: Fiber 5gbps up/down
ASUS AXE16000: AI Mesh node
2 X ASUS RT-AX89X: AI Mesh nodes
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 12-Port 10GbE Switch
XS712T ProSafe 12-Port 10GbE Switch
3 X R9000 DD-WRT Mesh
Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Posts: 676 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 19:24 Post subject:
@Kong,
In the latest build, v3.0-r34880M std (02/09/1
The dnscrypt options are missing from the services page: _________________ ASUS GT-BE98 PRO Main: Fiber 5gbps up/down
ASUS AXE16000: AI Mesh node
2 X ASUS RT-AX89X: AI Mesh nodes
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 12-Port 10GbE Switch
XS712T ProSafe 12-Port 10GbE Switch
3 X R9000 DD-WRT Mesh
Is anyone using Astrill applet? On VPN "connect" HTTP GUI stops responding. The only way to make it working back is to kill it and re-enable it via ssh. This issue is present on latest FW v3.0-r34880M, it was not present in December build.
I guess it has to be some bug in the new FW? I did a full reset of router settings.
