Should they each have separate SSIDs? should 1 and 2 have the same? Should they all have the same?
Any experience / advice on best practice for advanced settings with this router?
I am currently running DD-WRT v3.0-r30796 std (10/25/16) firmware. All other versions I had problems with getting my VPN to work.
I am using the same SSID for all of them. One thing I did which fixed the poor 802.11ac performance and WiFi dropouts was changing the Channel Width and the Protection Mode for each network to the following setting.
With these setting I haven't had any issues with the WiFi dropping out/stop working after 24 hours and I am my connection speed is 433Mbps now.
The default channel width is Full (20 MHz) for all channels and I was getting at best 76Mbps and the WiFi would stop working within 24 hours. I then I set each channel width to Dynamic (20/40 Mhz) for all channels and the connection speed went up to 200Mbps and still had issues with WiFi dropping out. The setting listed above have been working great for over 3 days now.
Should they each have separate SSIDs? should 1 and 2 have the same? Should they all have the same?
Any experience / advice on best practice for advanced settings with this router?
I am currently running DD-WRT v3.0-r30796 std (10/25/16) firmware. All other versions I had problems with getting my VPN to work.
I am using the same SSID for all of them. One thing I did which fixed the poor 802.11ac performance and WiFi dropouts was changing the Channel Width and the Protection Mode for each network to the following setting.
With these setting I haven't had any issues with the WiFi dropping out/stop working after 24 hours and I am my connection speed is 433Mbps now.
The default channel width is Full (20 MHz) for all channels and I was getting at best 76Mbps and the WiFi would stop working within 24 hours. I then I set each channel width to Dynamic (20/40 Mhz) for all channels and the connection speed went up to 200Mbps and still had issues with WiFi dropping out. The setting listed above have been working great for over 3 days now.
Aaron
I don't know why but my MacBook Pro 2014 it always connected in the 2.4 GHz do you know why.
Should they each have separate SSIDs? should 1 and 2 have the same? Should they all have the same?
Any experience / advice on best practice for advanced settings with this router?
I am currently running DD-WRT v3.0-r30796 std (10/25/16) firmware. All other versions I had problems with getting my VPN to work.
I am using the same SSID for all of them. One thing I did which fixed the poor 802.11ac performance and WiFi dropouts was changing the Channel Width and the Protection Mode for each network to the following setting.
With these setting I haven't had any issues with the WiFi dropping out/stop working after 24 hours and I am my connection speed is 433Mbps now.
The default channel width is Full (20 MHz) for all channels and I was getting at best 76Mbps and the WiFi would stop working within 24 hours. I then I set each channel width to Dynamic (20/40 Mhz) for all channels and the connection speed went up to 200Mbps and still had issues with WiFi dropping out. The setting listed above have been working great for over 3 days now.
Aaron
I don't know why but my MacBook Pro 2014 it always connected in the 2.4 GHz do you know why.
Should they each have separate SSIDs? should 1 and 2 have the same? Should they all have the same?
Any experience / advice on best practice for advanced settings with this router?
I am currently running DD-WRT v3.0-r30796 std (10/25/16) firmware. All other versions I had problems with getting my VPN to work.
I am using the same SSID for all of them. One thing I did which fixed the poor 802.11ac performance and WiFi dropouts was changing the Channel Width and the Protection Mode for each network to the following setting.
With these setting I haven't had any issues with the WiFi dropping out/stop working after 24 hours and I am my connection speed is 433Mbps now.
The default channel width is Full (20 MHz) for all channels and I was getting at best 76Mbps and the WiFi would stop working within 24 hours. I then I set each channel width to Dynamic (20/40 Mhz) for all channels and the connection speed went up to 200Mbps and still had issues with WiFi dropping out. The setting listed above have been working great for over 3 days now.
Aaron
I don't know why but my MacBook Pro 2014 it always connected in the 2.4 GHz do you know why.
I have put the ath0 an ath2 in Channel Width VHT80 (80 MHz) and it working now
Well my WiFi crashed yesterday and also got a new mac book pro. I changed the SSID to auth0 SSID=VPN2, auth1 SSID=VPN1, and auth2 SSID=VPN3. My new mac now connects to VPN3 at 867Mbps and before when all had the same SSID I would connect at 433Mbps. Still having issues with WiFi stopping to work and tried the latest beta r31544 and couldn't get my OpenVPN Client to connect to my VPN provider which is IPVanish. Currently waiting for a new version of firmware that works with IPVanish.
I ended up going back to stock firmware for now as had intermittent problems and couldn't get better than about 70Mbps. Will just wait for updated drivers for this router.
Linksys factory firmware does not enable 3rd WLAN (ath2) and does not mention it in any of their documentation. I suspect it is used by Linksys for DFS and BT coexistence. BS added code to allow users to use it as WLAN AP. Ath2 has same MAC address as ath1. Might be the cause of stability issues with DD-WRT on the WRT3200ACM. Personally, I disable ath2.
Last edited by elvisimprsntr on Tue Mar 07, 2017 21:55; edited 1 time in total
I installed build 31571 on my WRT3200ACM router yesterday. I disabled auth2 and have auth0 and auth1 set with different SSIDs. Haven't had a problem with either WiFi dropping out so far. Only issue I am having is I can't get OpenVPN Client to work for ipvanish however I was able to get ipvanish using PPTP.
ath2 on mine always just shows tx errors on the status; 0 OK and tons of errors, basically runs at 0%. Nothing ever connects, everything uses ath0 or ath1 depending on its capabilities.
This is with the same SSID, same passphrase etc., on all three interfaces.
Sorry for dragging up aged thread but thought I should share my experience with wrt3200acm.
I bought this a few months back as a wireless client and USB print server (GDI based), was using r33375 which has been very stable for me but have always had ath2 disabled as when it was enabled it caused issues.
ath0 is wan, Client, Full, mixed (20Mhz)
ath1 is lan, AP, Full, mixed (20Mhz)
I have a 405 mb/s to upstream router but am limited on the client side as ath1 only supports 2.4Ghz. This is not a problem at the moment but it would be nice to be able to have ath2 as a 5Ghz interface for the lan.
Have just loaded r33986 a couple of hours ago so just brought it back to mind. Wi-Fi speed checker now works .
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 18:15 Post subject: wrt3200acm ath2
ath2 doesn't seem to do anything. I gave it a separate SSID but a wireless scan doesn't list it. I've tried several firmwares with the same result. Currently, I'm using firmware 34929.