My firmware updated to the above version a day or so ago and since then I would get periodic drops throughout the day. Finally today it refused to connect at all.
I called Asus support and first they had a recording about this specific issue. Secondly, once I reached an agent, I explained the behavior I was seeing and she knew exactly where to take me in the settings in order to resolve the issue.
I asked her if the recent firmware was buggy and she gave me a whole lottta yap yap yap, basically saying No.
However, given the recording on the helpline and again the fact that she knew exactly which settings to change to make this work, it seems pretty clear that it was a buggy firmware update.
So, my advice would be not to update to this version of the firmware. They will likely be releasing a fixed version very quickly I would hope.
