Asus TM-AC1900 Wireless Dual-Band Gigabit Router (Refurb) Expired

Compare to $59 NEW + FS [tanga.com] (some reports of false advertising, might actually be refurbished)

This router can be flashed to an AC-68U (currently $136 on Amazon) by following these flashing instructions: http://www.bayareatechpros.com/ac1900-to-ac68u/

Once you flash it to a AC68U, you can instal ASUS stock, Merlin, DD-WRT or Tomato.


1) I used this guide to flash the AC1900 to AC68U so that AiMesh can be setup.

http://www.bayareatechpros.com/ac1900-to-ac68u/

2) I just updated a day before yesterday using the above guide. I haven't done any of this stuff in a few years so had to struggle but was able to read up a lot and finally figured out a few things on my own. If you follow the above guided steps AiMesh WILL NOT WORK unless you use a CFE file that has AiMesh support.

3) So on step 15 instead of
Upload original_cfe.bin to https://cfeditor.pipeline.sh/ > Select 1.0.2.0 US as Source

Use:
Upload original_cfe.bin to https://cfeditor.pipeline.sh/ > Select 1.0.2.0 US AiMesh as Source (option 3)


4) I flashed the AC1900 to AC68U and then had to read a lot to understand the CFE part as I kept pulling out my hair to get AiMesh to work as its supposed to work out of the box but my 2 routers would not see each other no matter what. I used another users CFE file to do the steps and that worked but updating the above steps would have netted the same result.

5) I had to turn off the "Airtime Fairness" as wifi kept dropping on the Mesh Node (second router) .
6) Under Roaming assistant I had to adjust the dbs accordingly 2.4=-70; 5=-90

Ask me any other questions from the guide and I can try to help.


Shahhere

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