[Amazon.com] Refurbished T-Mobile RT-AC68U Dual-Band Gigabit Router US$48 + $15 to ON
- Deal Link:
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075G ... &psc=1
- Price:
- 48
- Retailer:
- Amazon
Refurbished T-mobile branded router is back on sale. $48USD plus $14.99USD for shipping and duties to Ontario. About $80CAD total. I have been trying to buy this router used and everyone is asking $100-$140 on Kijiji. I just ordered two of these to create try AiMesh. If you want to try AiMesh make sure you don't update to the latest asus firmware (see notes from review below)
Previous threads from Jan, Feb and March
Re-flashing Asus firmware to convert it to RT-AC68
Important info from this review
Previous threads from Jan, Feb and March
Re-flashing Asus firmware to convert it to RT-AC68
Important info from this review
It now appears that Asus has disabled AiMesh functionality completely for anyone running a T-Mobile TM-AC1900 that is flashed to a ASUS RT-AC68U with its latest firmware update (Version 3.0.0.4.384.20624). Upon upgrading via the router admin interface, you will no longer see any AiMesh nodes nor anything to do with AiMesh, period. Also, after trying to reinstall the same updated firmware manually, my router was reset back to its original T-Mobile Firmware!!! What's worse, is that this may mean no future updates of any kind for TM flashed variants that are running AC68U firmware. Even Merlin over at SNB forums suggested somewhat cryptically that Asus is starting to tighten up on the TM-AC1900 routers and perhaps even his custom firmware won't work on them for much longer.
Last edited by fatestkid on Apr 11th, 2018 6:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.