Hello
I very recently obtained a R7000 to which I immediately flashed AdvancedTomato 3.4-1.38 (tomato-R7000-AT-ARM-3.4-138-AIO-64K.trx).
First time configuring a dual-channel equipment, so the installation was not as smooth as I hoped, mainly due to my own ignorances.
After a few hours, I finally settled on a modestly-working setup, WAN dialing up PPPoE with my NAS and mostly iDevices (iphone, ipads and macs) happily interconnected, with ONE glaring problem:
I am unable to make the 5Ghz channel working with any encryption. I tried WPA2-AES, WPA2/WPA-AES/TKIP, and permutations of it. (I did not test WEP as I think that is pointless). Without encryption, I can connect to the 5Ghz channel no problem, and its performance was satisfactory. Enable Encryption, attempts at connection will fail.
The 2.4Ghz channel is a breeze and working as expected.
Googling it resulted in a similar posts, albeit a few years back, with not much closure on the issue.
Can anyone shed a slight on this issue? Or pointers towards resolving this. I do not believe its a shortcoming of the Tomato + R7000 combo.
(Another problem, of a lesser extent, is I am unable to set the 5Ghz chennel width to 80MHz. Doing so will result in the router freezing/lost connection, with a physical reboot the only recourse. Setting the width to 20 or 40 MHz do not exhibit any problem)
Thanks in advance
I wish I could help but I'm having the same issue.
I thought it was just me.
Can you go through the steps you've completed for setup?
I'm using R8000 and have had similar issues with tomato and kong mods. After an nvram delete or 30-30-30 reset I configure everything I need and reboot. If I don't reboot encryption won't work.
When you initially choose your encryption method select WPA2 personal, AES, and set your password.
Hit save and ( if you're connecting with a computer) when you connect your computer will show what type of encryption the router is using. For me, before a reboot, it always showed up as WEP. Reboot the router and it's AES.
I hope that works
Yes i did a nvram delete after Tomato was flashed to the router. (and a couple more + reboots after :-) )
It does not work only on 5Ghz. It works flawlessly on the 2.4Ghz.
I can verify it is not a hardware problem because both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz worked with encryption when i flashed the R7000 with xwrt-Vortex (380.65). Currently the xwrt-Vortex is powering the R7000.
Yes i did a nvram delete after Tomato was flashed to the router. (and a couple more + reboots after :-) )
It does not work only on 5Ghz. It works flawlessly on the 2.4Ghz.
I can verify it is not a hardware problem because both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz worked with encryption when i flashed the R7000 with xwrt-Vortex (380.65). Currently the xwrt-Vortex is powering the R7000.
Yeah, might just need to stick with a release that is working best for you....
I've had some weird issues with tomato and Kong mods here and there. Kind of have to find a release that works and stick with it. Try new updates and hope they don't break anything.
Personally, Tomato has been the worst for R8000. Terrible WiFi range, random disconects....I'll be staying away for a while