It's a bridge head, you boot it, then write the actual image running it.
It's all in the git commit.
Are you talking about this commit (instruction)?
Tear down instructions for this device now available on the wiki.
Is anyone experiencing instability on 23.05.3? Perhaps it's just wireless that stopped working, I haven't checked...
Seems to happen every day or two...
What performance do you get with AX59U?
I'm thinking about SQM at 300-500 fiber line. My provider offers 300/150 or 500/250, pppoe over VLAN. Faster only 2/1 Gig speed and I don't need that.
This model should have the same CPU as AX4200/AX6000 so the performance should be the same I guess?
Searching the forum there are all kind of experiences on all 3 models, from SQM/cake from 300 to up to 800, all the way to 1 gig (which I'm a little sceptical of...).
I need only wired router, this Asus does not have external antennas and can be wall mounted which would be just fine. And I can reuse it later as an AP which is a bonus.
I't currently sold for 61€ in my country, not bad price I think.
Older MTK SOCs where really good supported, I have one MT7621 routing 1000/500 line (pppoe, vlan), no sqm, hw accelerated with like 2% CPU usage. I don't care about SQM on that line.
I know that SQM/cake is single threaded but would this Asus be able to shape up to 500 on the CPU alone?
With a 23.05.3 based build my flent testing suggests that without SQM it can do:
- with packet steering off:
- one direction only - about 900Mbps up or down
- both directions - the limit is about 430Mbps up & 575Mbps down (i.e. aggregate of just over 1Gbps)
- with packet steering on:
- one direction only - about 925Mbps up or down
- both directions - the limit is about 845Mbps up & 845Mbps down (i.e. aggregate of just under 1.7Gbps)
I don't have any measurements for PPPoE, software/hardware flow offload or cake. A simpler - less CPU intensive - shaper with packet steering on was able to get a bidirectional aggregate of about 1.2Gbps.
I suspect that performance is limited to at least some degree by current Linux kernel DSA switch driver limitations - the OEM firmware seems able to separate the WAN port onto a different interface from the LAN ports which isn't possible in OpenWrt.
Only wish I could get it for that price here...
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Thx for the reply.
After some more research I ordered it for 54.50€, shipping and tax included. Should arrive tomorrow or the day after so will see about the performance. Price is really good, usually it's sold for at least 100€.
When I find the time I'l try to test it with stock and openwrt and post results.
BTW, isn't flent only oriented to bufferbloat/response testing?
Yes. SQM on TUF-AX4200 has done over 2 Gbps.
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flent is used for network throughput testing under all sorts of conditiions.
Hi. How to roll back to asus firmware ? I have found another guy how was trying, but nothing work: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-rt-ax59u-cannot-return-to-original-firmware.91126/
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Hello,
I've read the wiki page for the device, and there are two images for the initial OpenWrt installation: one called "Firmware OpenWrt Install Url" - https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.5/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-23.05.5-mediatek-filogic-asus_rt-ax59u-initramfs-kernel.bin, and one linked in the Easy Installation paragraph - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A20QdjK7Udagu31FSszpWAk8-cGlCwsq
If I understand correctly, one should flash TRX file (the second one) through the Asus web interface, but then what is the first file (bin) good for?
Yes
this will be useful when the installed firmware is damaged (for various reasons this can happen)
A test with SQM cake (simplest_tbf.qos) enabled on a 400/40 cable connection, ingress set at 400000:
root@RT-AX59U:~# speedtest-netperf.sh -H netperf-eu.bufferbloat.net
2024-12-04 13:23:02 Starting speedtest for 60 seconds per transfer session.
Measure speed to netperf-eu.bufferbloat.net (IPv4) while pinging gstatic.com.
Download and upload sessions are sequential, each with 5 simultaneous streams.
.............................................................
Download: 391.10 Mbps
Latency: [in msec, 61 pings, 0.00% packet loss]
Min: 9.337
10pct: 10.388
Median: 11.632
Avg: 12.837
90pct: 14.095
Max: 66.314
CPU Load: [in % busy (avg +/- std dev), 59 samples]
cpu0: 15.0 +/- 7.2
cpu1: 12.2 +/- 5.9
cpu2: 11.8 +/- 6.3
cpu3: 11.5 +/- 6.3
Overhead: [in % used of total CPU available]
netperf: 2.9
Test with a USB3-stick (Kingston DataTraveler 128GB) with hdparm:
root@RT-AX59U:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 1600 MB in 2.00 seconds = 800.19 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 600 MB in 3.00 seconds = 199.69 MB/sec
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Did you try new release 24.10?
Yes, today updated from 23.05.5 and everything is working fine.
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Hi guys, new device here. So I first flash the TRX file openwrt-24_rt-ax59u-initramfs.trx from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A20QdjK7Udagu31FSszpWAk8-cGlCwsq
then sysupgrade to latest SNAPSHOT https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-asus_rt-ax59u-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Will that work correctly?
I'm asking since there's a new entry in the wiki https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ax59u stating this:
**Please note that OpenWrt 24.10.0 works only on devices with U-Boot 2022.04-rc1.**
**If you have a recent U-Boot >= 2022.10 installing OpenWrt 24.10.0 will brick your device.**
**If unsure DO NOT INSTALL OpenWrt 24.10.0 and wait for OpenWrt 24.10.1.**
Can this be a problem with the TRX file provided in the Google Drive (currently dated March 31 2025)?
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the initramfs doesn't write anything to flash, and you can always recover.
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@frollic Thanks! So the TRX is in fact initramfs wrapped in a container? If it does not write anything to flash, does it mean that after booting into it, I have to immediately sysupgrade to the latest SNAPSHOT, otherwise it reverts to stock Asus firmware?
that's what initramfs:es usually do, yes.
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