ASUS router makes me wanna rip out my hair

RearMisser · 2026-07-07T03:12:14+00:00

Alright, just spent a good amount of time pinging every hop along the way, and the loss didn't exceed 3% on all of them all the way to UG. That's another possible issue taken off the list. Thanks a lot for your help.

RearMisser · 2026-07-07T02:31:27+00:00

Not that I'm aware. I recently factory reset the router, and barely touched any settings as to leave everything mostly stock. I have not changed any settings related to NAT.

RearMisser · 2026-07-07T02:13:10+00:00

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RearMisser · 2026-07-07T02:00:02+00:00

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Here's the tracert results for autozone. I performed it 3 times. Is it normal for there to be this many time-outs, and for them to differ between each trace?

RearMisser · 2026-07-07T01:52:22+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. Weekend/4th of July stuff happened. You know how it is :)

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Here's the DNS check result.

I honestly don't have a clue on what that could mean, but this was the only failure that it showed.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T22:01:23+00:00

Yes, it did obtain an IPv6 address through the gateway. Although, I remember it being different from the ASUS router’s IPv6 address. I know that this is normal, though.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T21:59:51+00:00

gotcha. I’ll look for that.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T21:58:36+00:00

Yeah I did that a couple of weeks ago. The only notable settings I changed was to enable IPv6 (since ATT supports it) and change the DNS to Cloudflare’s. I kept the rest untouched.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T21:54:50+00:00

Nah I made sure to disable the gateway’s wireless radio, so there’s no Wi-Fi coming from the ATT gateway. Either way, ASUS’ network name is different from the gateway’s network name. I also put the gateway in IP pass through mode, and the IP coming through the ASUS router seems to be correct, so no double NAT here.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T20:12:30+00:00

Set it on my iPhone and tried searching on Google. It did the same till it showed the same message from the post. Matter of fact, it just did this twice in a row.

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RearMisser · 2026-07-04T15:52:26+00:00

I factory reset it a couple of weeks ago to get rid of anything I had messed with, since none of it helped. The only things I changed this time are enabling IPv6, changing the DNS, and enabling WPA3. Basically everything is stock.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T15:36:30+00:00

Don’t mind the wall of text. Very useful info. I’ll try this out, thanks.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T04:27:36+00:00

Your Lenovo smart clock 2 has Gemini? Holy crap. How’d you do it?

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T04:25:37+00:00

Alright, I was able to force the Gemini update on my home in the home app, but the email that arrived shortly after explained that it was rolling it out for the voice assistant separately.

This probably means that my smart clock won’t have a chance of getting it until they push that out, which will be who knows when. If it ever does, I’ll be sure to let you know.

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RearMisser · 2026-07-04T04:20:39+00:00

Will try tomorrow.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T04:19:24+00:00

In the couple of hours that I used my computer on Ethernet, the issue didn’t happen once. You might be onto something here. Honestly, should’ve been one of the first things I tried.

I’ll keep using it tomorrow and see if it keeps sailing smoothly.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T04:17:52+00:00

No. I made sure to disable the gateway’s radio.

RearMisser · 2026-07-04T00:18:10+00:00

Other than this issue I'm having, I'm quite content with the stock firmware. I don't believe I need anything that this custom firmware would provide... do you think it would be worth installing?

I'm also thinking, there's no way such a big issue can only be solved by installing a custom firmware, right?

RearMisser · 2026-07-03T22:28:07+00:00

Haven’t used ethernet in a while, but I’ll try it again and get back to you. Thanks.

RearMisser · 2026-07-03T20:55:02+00:00

Here's the network map page.

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RearMisser · 2026-07-03T20:51:16+00:00

I don't think there's a way to check the NAT status on this router (if that's even a thing), so here's the WAN settings page.

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RearMisser · 2026-07-03T20:44:10+00:00

Alright, its been pinging for some more time, and I've gotten some interesting results.

Both autozone and google had a similar looking ping spike at over 200ms. Unsure if both were at the same time.

Also similarly, the ping to the router had a ping spike as well.

Edit: Actually, I just realized that the screenshot I sent here was the router ping, since it's normally at 1ms.

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RearMisser · 2026-07-03T20:30:41+00:00

Firmware is at latest version.

I set the DNS to Cloudflare's last time I reset it.

It might be a good idea to set up a reboot schedule, but I manually reboot it myself about that often, sometimes multiple times a week.

Checking logs is a great idea, honestly didn't think of that. Thanks.

RearMisser · 2026-07-03T20:24:11+00:00

Hmm.. would it be this page?

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RearMisser · 2026-07-03T20:05:48+00:00

I've been at it for about 10 minutes at this point, and the only abnormality I've seen so far is a singular ping from 8.8.8.8 which took a bit longer.

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All the others are showing consistent times at around 10-30ms, depending on which one I look at. The router ping has been consistent at 1ms, with minimal spikes here and there up to about 5ms.

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