ASUS RP-AC87

abgn+ac (AC2600)
Wireless-AC2600 Dual Band Repeater
Homepage	Product page
Wikipedia	Asus routers
WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru	ASUS RP-AC87
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	ASUS RP-AC87
FCC ID	none specified
Type	range extender, repeater, access point, media bridge
CPU1 Y	MediaTek MT7621AT
CPU1 Type	MIPS 1004Kc
CPU1 Speed	880 MHz ( 2 cores ) 16-bit
Flash1 Chip	Macronix MX25L12805D
Flash1 Size	16 MiB 16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> (SPI NOR)
RAM1 Size	128 MiB 134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (DDR3 1200mhz)
RAM1 Chip	Brand? Model?
ETH chip1	MediaTek MT7621AT
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	none specified
Power	100-240 VAC ~ 50/60 Hz, 0.6 A
Connector type	NEMA 1-15P
Serial Port (UART)	yes, 4-pin header, 3.3V TTL, (57600 8N1)
Flags: MU-MIMO, 256QAM
Other
Default SSID: ASUS_RPAC87 , ASUS_RPAC87_5G Default IP address: 192.168.1.1 the IP 192.168.1.1 is used by 1359 additional devices of which 175 are ASUS devices Default login user: admin Default login password: admin admin:admin credentials used by 1358 additional devices of which 209 are ASUS devices
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
Availability	End of Life
End of Life date	2023
FCC approval date	21 April 2017
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	MediaTek MT7615E
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	U.FL
MIMO status	4x4:4
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
n-QAM	up to 800 Mbps
802.11n	up to 600 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Radio 2
Chip1	MediaTek MT7615E
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	U.FL
MIMO status	4x4:4
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac	up to 1733 Mbps
802.11n	up to 600 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz

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

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

• 800 Mbps - 4SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan., 256-QAM),

• 1733 Mbps - 4SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.) = AC2600 class

Overview

See also: ASUS RP-AC66 and ASUS RP-AC55

Links of Interest

News

Reviews

• ASUS RP-AC87 Wireless AC2600 Dual-Band Repeater on Eteknix
• ASUS RP-AC87 Wireless AC2600 Repeater on Digital Citizen

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)

Target: ramips
Subtarget: mt7621
Package architecture: mipsel_24kc
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 23.05.0
Current supported version: 24.10.5

WLAN Hardware: 2x MediaTek MT7615E
WLAN Comment: MIMO 4x4:4 on both bands
Installation method(s):
Asus Firmware Restoration tool, U-Boot TFTP recovery, see git-commit
Recovery method(s):
U-Boot TFTP recovery, see git-commit

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ramips: add support for ASUS RP-AC87 Asus RP-AC87 ac2600 Repeater 2.4GHz 800Mbps 5GHz 1733Mbps Hardware specifications: SoC: MT7621A 2 cores 4 threads @880MHz WiFi2G: MT7615E 2G 4x4 b/g/n Wifi5G: MT7615E 5G 4x4 n/ac DRAM: 128MB DDR3 @1200mhz Flash: 16MB MX25L12805D SPI-NOR LAN/WAN: MT7530 1x1000M MAC addresses as verified by OEM firmware: use address source Lan/W5G *:B0 factory 0x8004 (label) W2G *:B4 factory 0x0 Installation: Asus windows recovery tool: install the Asus firmware restoration utility unplug the router, hold the reset button while powering it on release when the power LED flashes slowly specify a static IP on your computer: IP address: 192.168.1.75 Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Start the Asus firmware restoration utility, specify the factory image and press upload Do not power off the device after OpenWrt has booted until the LED flashing. TFTP Recovery method: set computer to a static ip, 192.168.1.2 connect computer to the LAN 1 port of the router hold the reset button while powering on the router for a few seconds send firmware image using a tftp client; i.e from linux: $ tftp tftp> binary tftp> connect 192.168.1.1 tftp> put factory.bin tftp> quit Signed-off-by: Tamas Balogh

Notes

GPL Info

export RP-AC87 := HTTPS=y MIPS32=r2 RALINK=y MT7621=y BBEXTRAS=y 
  EBTABLES=y AUTODICT=y BUILD_NAME="RP-AC87" RPAC87=y NVRAM_64K=y 
  ODMPID=y REPEATER=y PROXYSTA=y NEW_USER_LOW_RSSI=y REDIRECT_DNAME=y 
  NEW_RGDM=y RA_SKU=y RA_SKU_IN_DRV=y MDNS=y FINDASUS=y MTK_REP=y 
  DHCP_OVERRIDE=y SSH=y QAM256_2G=y \
    ATED122=y MTK_8021X3000=y \
    TEMPROOTFS=y WPSMULTIBAND=y \
    RALINK_DFS=y \
    BOOT_FLASH_TYPE=SPI DRAM=128M \
    FIRST_IF=MT7615E SECOND_IF=MT7615E \
    CONCURRENTREPEATER=y DISABLE_NETWORKMAP=y \
    EXTRA_KERNEL_CONFIGS="MT7621_BAUDRATE=57600 RT2880_DRAM_128M=y 
     UBOOT_CMDLINE=y MODEL_RPAC87=y RA_NAT_HW=n FIRST_IF_IPAELNA=y 
     SECOND_IF_IPAELNA=y SMART_CARRIER_SENSE_SUPPORT=y 
     MT_DFS_SUPPORT=y"