Asus RT AC68U Wifi Problems

TheDerpyWho

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This router works good when hard wired, but wireless devices like laptops and phones randomly loses connection. What can cause this problem?
 

ttjambe

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Anything from bad drivers through to interference and poorly configured wireless security protocols. Please be more specific. What have you tried so far, what has happened. Specs and history of both laptop and router. Recent purchases of wireless devices (e.g. cordless phones)
 

Henk Visser

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Check this reference, it helped me with the same issue at several routers:
From <http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=20597.msg412392#msg412392>

"Re: Wi-fi Dropping Out on Home Network since EOS Utility 2.14.0
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2014, 12:36:19 PM »
I had the same problem with 2.14.  I'm a retired computer programmer, so I have the tools to do network traces to see what was going on.  Basically, the 2.14 version installed itself so that it would run automatically at startup (as several other people have already noted).  When installed, it was constantly hammering WiFi looking for a camera.  Of course, most of us don't have our cameras on all the time, so the utility never found a camera.  The utility was consuming almost all of the available WiFi bandwidth.  This made it difficult for any other WiFi device to run well (any network activity would be very slow).

I went back to version 2.13.40.0.  It does not have the problem.

Regards, Jim"

Thanks to Jim!
Kind regards,
Henk