Problem with Asus Router site?

[wklee]

I bought an ASUS RT AX88U and while the router works fine, it seems the Asus Router website doesn't work? The website is router.asus.com. I've set up the router as a repeater. I can access 192.168.xx.xx but the LAN IP can be subject to change, so I don't always get into the router's web configuration page. I had to use my iPhone Asus Apps to discover the correct web page,

Here's the support page:

https://www.asus.com/sg/support/FAQ/1005263/

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[Robert Zanatta]

Hard code the router address to something like 192.168.1.1 and then use that as the URL. Or add an entry to your hosts file for the IP address and use that name.

 

[Eric Carlson]

In your main router, map the new router's MAC address to a specific DHCP IP address, so it won't change. Or set a static IP in the new router. Or keep doing what you already did to determine the IP address when needed. Or check your main router's device list to see what IP address was given to the new router. Do you still need more choices than that?

 

[wklee]

In your main router, map the new router's MAC address to a specific DHCP IP address, so it won't change. Or set a static IP in the new router. Or keep doing what you already did to determine the IP address when needed. Or check your main router's device list to see what IP address was given to the new router. Do you still need more choices than that?

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking that the website router.asus.com should have worked but didn't. I have TP Link repeaters which when I go to tplinkrepeater.net would give instructions on now to get my TP Link repeater to see the LAN IP if I can't find it. I expected my Asus router to work similarly but it didn't work the way I thought it would.

I tried this, which worked on TP Link, but had no effect on the Asus. I had no experience on Asus routers before purchasing it.:

"Option One:

If your extended Wi-Fi network name is different from the main router (e.g. MyHome on the router, MyHome_EXT on the range extender), please connect to the extended Wi-Fi (e.g. MyHome_EXT) and try http://tplinkrepeater.net again."

http://tplinkrepeater.net

http://tplinkwifi.net

 

[Robert Zanatta]

I have the RT-AC86U, and trying to access router.asus.com doesn't work from Chrome on my smartphone. Using the IP address works.

 

[Billiam29]

The functionality of using router.asus.com is likely provided by the Asus device recognizing that fully qualified host name and responding to it itself rather than attempting to actually look it up via DNS. In other words, it's probably "intercepting" DNS queries to the router.asus.com name. You actually don't even get results when you use tools like nslookup or dig to manually query "normal" DNS for the name router.asus.com . At least I didn't.

When you have the Asus device set in repeater mode, you would not be using that device as the DNS server for your PC and wireless clients. Hence the reason router.asus.com isn't working and the advice of others that have replied to access the Asus unit by IP address.

 

[Eric Carlson]

I agree with your assessment of the situation.