ASUS RT-AC68P

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abgn+ac (AC1900)
Wireless-AC1900 Dual-Band Gigabit Router
Homepage	Product page
Support	Support page
Downloads	Download page
Wikipedia	Asus routers
WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru	ASUS RT-AC68P
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Status Unknown
Tomato any flavor	Supported
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	ASUS RT-AC68P (v2)
FCC ID	MSQ-RTAC68UV2
IC ID	3568A-RTAC68UV2
Type	wireless router
Series	RT-AC68
CPU1	Broadcom BCM4709A0
CPU1 Type	ARMv7 Cortex-A9
CPU1 Speed	1.0 GHz ( 2 cores )
Flash1 Chip	Spansion S34ML01G100TFI00
Flash1 Size	128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	256 MiB268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	ESMT M15F2G16128A-BDB
ETH chip1	Broadcom BCM4709A0
Switch	Broadcom BCM4709A0
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-WAN 4-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: 10:C3:78 Ethernet OUI: 10:C3:78
Stock bootloader	CFE
Stock FW OS	Linux 2.6.36.4 brcmarm
Expansion IF types	USB 3.0, USB 2.0
USB ports	2
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	19 VDC, 1.75 A
Connector type	barrel
Serial Port (UART)	yes
JTAG Port	yes
Flags: AiCloud support, AiMesh
Additional chips 2.4GHz Power Amplifier IC;Richwave;RTC6649E;;3; 5GHz Power Amplifier IC;Skyworks;SKY85402-11;SKY, 85402, 11;;3;
Other
Default SSID: ASUS (100 addl. devices) , ASUS_5G (46 addl. devices) Default IP address: 192.168.1.1 the IP 192.168.1.1 is used by 1326 additional devices of which 173 are ASUS devices Default login user: admin Default login password: admin admin:admin credentials used by 1343 additional devices of which 207 are ASUS devices
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Arcadyan WG9117E AC33 (1-ASU)
3rd Party Firmware Support	AsusWRT-Merlin • (Wiki | List) , FreshTomato • (List | DLs) , Tomato (Shibby) • (List | DLs)
Retail
Availability	limited
FCC approval date	12 August 2014
(Est.) release date	23 January 2015
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD):	$199.99
UPC	886227672462 (UPC DB, On eBay)
EAN	0886227672462 (UPC DB, On eBay)
Newegg	N82E16833320228
ASIN	B00PZX26NQ
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4360
Wireless interface OUI	10:C3:78
Antenna Connector Type	RP-SMA
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
N-QAM	up to 600 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Radio cor_rev	40
Radio 2
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4360
Wireless interface OUI	10:C3:78
Antenna Connector Type	RP-SMA
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac	up to 1300 Mbps
N-QAM	up to 600 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
Radio cor_rev	40
FCC ID ASUS RT-AC68UF MSQ-RTAC68UV2
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio2 chip1 brand ASUS RT-AC68P Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom ASUS RT-AC68U Extreme Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom ASUS RT-AC68U V3 Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom ASUS RT-AC68U rev A1 Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom ASUS RT-AC68U rev B2 Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom ASUS RT-AC68U rev C1 ASUS RT-AC68U rev E1 ASUS RT-AC68UF Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom ASUS RT-AC68W

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

For a list of all currently documented ASUS device with specifications, see ASUS.

• 1300 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.),

• 600 Mbps - 3SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan., 256-QAM) = AC1900 class

Overview

• Wi-Fi Certified : WFA19421 (as of 08/29/2013)

This certification also applies to the RT-AC68R

See also: ASUS RT-AC68

Links of Interest

News

• ASUS Announces Next-Generation Wi-Fi Devices on ASUS Press Release
• Asus RT-AC68P Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router on BestBuy
• Broadcom Announces Beefed-Up SoCs To Power Up Draft 802.11ac Products
  on SmallNetBuilder

Reviews

• ASUS RT-AC68P Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router on SmallNetBuilder

Forum threads

• On DD-WRT forums
• On SmallNetBuilder forums

Asus RT-AC68P boot log

Notes

FCC Info

Multiple manufacturers are noted within the FCC test report

• Askey Technology (Jiangsu) Ltd.
• Compal Networking (KunShan) Co., LTD. (Arcadyan)

The FCC label indicates the int. Arcadyan model

is WG9117EAC33 1-ASU (WG9117GAC)

• The ASUS logo, "RT-AC68U-V2", "REV 2.20" and "HannStar KMV-4"

is silkscreened on the board in the FCC photos.

CPU: Broadcom BCM4709A0KFEBG (TT1348;P10;E90YZ.7-01;Z1A)

WLAN: 2x Broadcom BCM4360KMLG (TE1403;P20;348143;3W)

Flash: Spansion S34ML01G100TFI00 (411BB132;A12;SPANSION)

RAM: ESMT M15F2G16128A-BDB (KPF1;T30L901;341)

Quarz: 40MHz (X3, X4), 25MHz (X2)

OUI: 10:C3:78

cpu info

Linux version 2.6.36.4brcmarm (merlin@mint-dev) (gcc version 4.5.3 
 (Buildroot 2012.02) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 20 15:01:26 EDT 2014
CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc090] revision 0 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7f
CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
Machine: Northstar Prototype
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writealloc
MPCORE found at 19020000
PERCPU: Embedded 7 pages/cpu @c8215000 s5472 r8192 d15008 u65536
pcpu-alloc: s5472 r8192 d15008 u65536 alloc=16*4096
module ledtrig-usbdev not found in modules.dep
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
Total pages: 60416
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 
console=ttyS0,115200 init=/sbin/preinit earlyprintk debug
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 128MB 128MB = 256MB total
Memory: 255548k/255548k available, 6596k reserved, 0K highmem

• ASUS RT-AC68P/boot log

PA type

# PAtype. 
0: RT-AC68U
1: RT-AC87U
5023: RT-AC68U V2 with original PA 5023
85402: RT-AC68U V2 with new PA 85402 
 => Skyworks chip on 5GHZ

SKY85402 Datasheet