ASUS RT-AC68P

ASUS RT-AC68 P (v2)
Availability: new

Manuf/OEM/ODM Arcadyan WG9117E AC33 (1-ASU)

FCC approval date: 12 August 2014
(Est.) release date: 23 January 2015
Country of manuf.: China

Amazon image

ASIN
B00PZX26NQ (, On Amazon, On CCC)
multiple revisions of this device, use caution

Type: wireless router

FCC ID: MSQ-RTAC68UV2
Industry Canada ID: 3568A-RTAC68UV2

Power: 19 VDC, 1.75 A
Connector type: barrel

CPU1: Broadcom BCM4709A0 (1 GHz, 2 cores)
FLA1: 128 MiB

134,217,728 B
1,048,576 Kib
131,072 KiB
1,024 Mib
0.125 GiB

(Spansion S34ML01G100TFI00)
RAM1: 256 MiB

268,435,456 B
2,097,152 Kib
262,144 KiB
2,048 Mib
0.25 GiB

(ESMT M15F2G16128A-BDB)

Expansion IFs: USB 3.0, USB 2.0
USB ports: 2
JTAG: yes
Serial: yes

WI1 chip1: Broadcom BCM4360
WI1 802dot11 protocols: bgn
WI1 MIMO config: 3x3:3
WI1 antenna connector: RP-SMA
WI2 chip1: Broadcom BCM4360
WI2 802dot11 protocols: an+ac
WI2 MIMO config: 3x3:3
WI2 antenna connector: RP-SMA

ETH chip1: Broadcom BCM4709A0
Switch: Broadcom BCM4709A0
LAN speed: 10/100/1000
LAN ports: 4
WAN speed: 10/100/1000
WAN ports: 1

abgn+ac

Additional chips
2.4GHz Power Amplifier IC;Richwave;RTC6649E;;3;
5GHz Power Amplifier IC;Skyworks;SKY85402-11;SKY, 85402, 11;;3;

Stock bootloader: CFE

Stock FW OS: Linux 2.6.36 brcmarm

Third party firmware supported: AsusWRT-Merlin • Wiki • (List), FreshTomato-ARM, Tomato (Shibby) • (DLs) • (List)

Flags: AiCloud support

Default SSID: ASUS (86 addl. devices), ASUS_5G (39 addl. devices)
Default IP address: 192.168.1.1
the IP 192.168.1.1 is used by 1067 additional devices
of which 146 are ASUS devices
Default login user: admin
Default login password: admin
admin:admin credentials used by 1093 additional devices
of which 158 are ASUS devices

802dot11 OUI: 10:C3:78
Ethernet OUI: 10:C3:78

	FCC ID
ASUS RT-AC68UF	MSQ-RTAC68UV2

	CPU1 brand	WI1 chip1 brand	WI1 chip2 brand
ASUS RT-AC68P	Broadcom	Broadcom
ASUS RT-AC68U	Broadcom	Broadcom
ASUS RT-AC68U Extreme	Broadcom	Broadcom
ASUS RT-AC68UF	Broadcom	Broadcom

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

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• 1300 Mbps max PHY rate for the 80MHz wide 5GHz channel,

• 600 Mbps max. PHY rate for the 40MHz wide 2.4GHz channel = 1900 Mbps class

Wireless-AC1900 Dual-Band Gigabit Router

Product page  • Support page  • Downloads

Wi-Fi Certified (alt.) (as of 08/29/2013)

This certification also applies to the RT-AC68R

This device was under short-term confidentiality, but that expired 02/07/2015.

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

Reviews

• ASUS RT-AC68P Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router Reviewed
  (21/01/2015) on SmallNetBuilder

Forum threads

• On DD-WRT forums
• On SmallNetBuilder forums

Asus RT-AC68P boot log

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

Other

• 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

See also

• Asus Wireless AC networking solutions
• Asus Routers with DD-WRT firmware support
• AsusWRT Support List
• Devices ASUS Routers