ASUS RT 68u any connection or speed issues?

Agreed, they need a better written manual, and a firmware flash to take care of the little bugs -- it will happen, but you are an early adopter.

I have been using the RTAC-68U for several months now (upgraded from 66U). This router has been a nightmare. The biggest issue I have is constantly dropping ALL connections (2.4, 5 GHz wireless, as well as ethernet/hardwired). I have Macs, Win 7 & 8, NAS links, video surveillance, etc. Basically, I throw the kitchen sink at this router. It is almost useless! I can be in the middle of transferring files from a local drive to a networked drive and the process halts when network drops out. Nothing has changed in my network since I was using the 66U and it worked awesomely!! There is definitely an issue with the 68U. Lastly, I have the latest firmware that is available (ver. : 3.0.0.4.374_4561). Sent several messages to Asus but no response as of yet.

I got my 68U a few weeks ago and run the latest firmware. I'm debating returning this thing. Two important features (to me) work quite poorly:

- dual WAN : appears to be dropping WAN1 for no reason every few hours, stalling all traffic. I had a CISCO RV042 that never did this even though it too is quite mediocre. Luckily I still have it in a box. I have unplugged my DSL failover line and run cable only now. I'll keep an eye on the log and see if it still drops the WAN connection every few hours.

- Static DHCP : I want most of my networked gear to have fixed IP addresses so there is less risk of duplicates and all the mess that that gives. My ancient D-Link 655 neatly prints a list of all current reservations along with readable names if available. You can then reserve one and edit a readable name. Fast forward about 4 years and double the price. Now ASUS only gives you a drop box with all DHCP reservations and perhaps a few readable names but no indication which address is already reserved. When you pick one there is no opportunity to enter a readable name nor does it preserve the snooped name. Just a MAC and IP address. Completely and utterly pathetic.

How dare they ship a 'premium' product and have it be so mediocre? Do they never use competitive products and think "hmm, good idea, we should do something similar?" It's not like they'll get sued over DHCP reservations, right?

An attempt to reach ASUS tech support was more frustration. The web form kept saying something like 'empty to allowed' even though all forms are filled int. More mediocrity.

I think ASUS should have stuck to their pretty decent mother board. Oh and the netbook I have is pretty decent.

Time to email Newegg and see about returning this turkey I think. Now that I'm typing this I really don't think this router is worth the money. Perhaps it's really good at network storage but it will never beat my Windows Home Server for that. Perhaps its AC is really good but I just got that to future proof my home network. Don't need it yet. The N is faster on my Macbook and apparently my Comcast modem supports GbE because I got 110 Mb/s wireless Speedtest.net download speeds. My RV042 is only fast ethernet. I need the failover though so it will likely go back in. Bummer.