Fully accept that the Asus RT-AC68U is a very well respected router by many well informed kitz forum patrons and much further abroad, this was the main reason I decided to purchase this model and go down the separate modem/router path.
Chances are, I was just unlucky and got a bad one from Amazon, to be honest, would likely have accepted a replacement at the same cost had that option been available at the time.
However, have decided to avoid rather costly Asus devices at present and currently investigating other "2 box" options which will suit my rather modest requirements at much less cost.
Quote by Alex Atkin UK:
I'm not sure everyone would notice if PPP was dropping often, depending on if they are active when it happens or not.
Yes indeed, I probably would not have noticed the PPP session drop outs had it not been for my Google Home Hub (Wi-Fi connected) which sits beside my PC VDU repeatedly reporting "no connection" & "re-connection", initially thought it was a Wi-Fi issue but then established on the router GUI that it was PPP session disconnects/re-connects.
@Alex Atkin UK:
Noted from your profile that you are running a BT HH-5A on OpenWRT, I spent Saturday converting my old Plusnet Hub One (re-badged BT HH-5A) to OpenWRT, just for fun !
Have not had a chance to play with the GUI much as yet but looks quite interesting.
How do you find your conversion, any use ?
PS: Will open another post on the subject if this gets involved, was going to post my "conversion experience" anyway.
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