Trouble with consistent signal and speed on 5Ghz band

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Herman Thrognorton

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Network adapter - Wireless Intel Dual band AC-3160
ASUS RT-N66U router
Toshiba B4200 laptop.

With 2.4 Ghz selected on my laptop, I get download speeds of 75 -80 Mbps. When I select the 5.0 Ghz band, I get 8 Mbps.

Laptop is unobstructed view of the router and it's 6 feet away.

Sometimes the 5.0 Ghz band does not even show.

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It should be the standard firmware upgrade screen in tomato. The main issue will be is if it fails. You then must download asus recovery software and load the firmware with that.

This is the penalty of third party firmware you have to learn what you are doing. This is partially why default router software is simple because people do not want to spend the time reading the support pages on the third party web sites.
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Herman Thrognorton

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I did not... I had a similar problem when I was in Panama... no 5 Ghz.

I'm now thinking I have a "router" problem. This RT-N66U was brand new and I had Tomato put on it, why I'm not sure. Anyway, I swapped that router with a spare I had, an ASUS RT-N56U. On the 2.4 Ghz band I'm getting 71-74 Mbps, on the 5 Ghz band I'm see 84 Mbps consistently.

Maybe the Tomato stuff? How much risk in resetting to factory settings on the RT-N66U?
 
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bill001g

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I think it depends the color shirt you are wearing when you try to load the factor firmware :)

Going back sometime is as easy as putting the filename in the router web page and pressing go. Other times you get a dead router and have to load it with the recovery software. It seams on many of the asus routers you have to load a older factory firmware first and then load the later firmware. They later firmware is checking for something and not loading correctly.

Since you liked tomato would go to merlin firmware. It has many more feature than the base asus code but it has much fewer bugs that the other third party firmware since it is simpler.

The good news is that it is almost impossible to completely brick a asus router any more. You just have to keep trying until you get something to load.
 
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bill001g

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It should be the standard firmware upgrade screen in tomato. The main issue will be is if it fails. You then must download asus recovery software and load the firmware with that.

This is the penalty of third party firmware you have to learn what you are doing. This is partially why default router software is simple because people do not want to spend the time reading the support pages on the third party web sites.
 
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Herman Thrognorton

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I will give it a shot... hopefully you'll be around if I run into trouble
 
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