Firmware RT-N56U_3.0.3.8-081_base.trx is unreliable

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Wait a few days / hours

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
1. A web interface that keeps the spinning wheel spinning forever when loading 
http://my.router/Main_AdmStatus_Content.asp (or any other page, even the login 
page) from the same LAN
2. No ping possible over OpenVPN connection
3. Unreliable internet connection (browsing, especially https hangs randomly 
but frequent)
4. Sometimes the CPU graph does not output any information at all
5. Sometimes the status is like: 
Load Avg:   -- -- --
CPU Load:   --
Memory Free:    --- / ---
Uptime:         ---
6. Log displays a red exclamation mark, but when opening, no data is visible in 
the log output

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
RT-N56U_3.0.3.8-081_base.trx

Regression:
0. occurs on 2 devices after upgrading from 079 to 081
1. reboot, no improvement
2. power cycling, improves immediate (no idea for how long)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by i...@vakantieland.nl on 23 Apr 2014 at 4:44

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+1

Have been experiencing Samba server issues as well and hard drive performance 
issues. Seems Samba permission are lost randomly  after a few hours and HD 
becomes slow or unresponsive after a while or heavy R/W. Tested on PC and works 
great. Issue started since latest release. Power cycling solves issues but 
that's annoying since device could stay on for weeks without any problems 
before this release.

I'm sure its just a bad release and will be fixed in the next one :) 

Original comment by julioqc47 on 28 Apr 2014 at 3:06

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I'm having unreliable initial connection to internet too. I don't know how to 
explain because it doesn't happen to all devices or software. On PC, everything 
works fine. But on devices like XBox One, it is having a hard time connecting 
to its services but once connected it works fine. Same goes with Facebook app 
on Android devices. It is having a hard time downloading the images. All posts 
are loaded very quickly but the images takes a long time, sometimes until time 
out. The same goes to Google Play Store.

Anyway, previous version 080 has less issue but I can't seem to find the 
download link for it anymore. I wanted to download the base version.

Original comment by programa...@gmail.com on 25 May 2014 at 2:41

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I'm also experiencing instability, especially with WiFi simply stopping to work 
for a minute and then coming back online.
Would love to know where one can download previous versions...

Thanks.

Original comment by tamir...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2014 at 7:38

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I have also been experiencing random instability with Internet traffic. Occurs 
both on WiFi and wired devices. Random web pages will take an extremely long 
time to load, or load incompletely, or not load at all. Refreshing the page 
several times will sometimes fix the issue. Other times rebooting the router is 
necessary to fix the problem (temporarily). 
There are not entries in the system log when this occurs. Problem is evident on 
multiple computers connected to the router. When those same computer are 
connected directly to the cable modem or upstream router, web pages load 
quickly and as expected. 

Original comment by mattbrit...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2014 at 5:05