RT-BE88U Works Fine for Clients, but Administrative Features Can't Access Internet

[Basspig]

I just installed an RT-BE88U router and amazingly, got my web server, streaming video server and NAS and all IoT devices working flawlessly.

The only issues seem to be with internal "bells & whistles" type features, such as the internet speed test and firmware updater. They cannot access the internet. Even though the internet status is "connected" and all client PCs have internet. It's baffling. What feature is not enabled that makes this not work? Or are these features not yet implemented in firmware?

[Basspig]

This is my result of the signature check:

[jzchen · Accepted solution]

Since that was updated, I wonder if you can go back to getting the DNS automatically/from the ISP, and it now works properly...

I have never seen the speed test not work.  But I have seen the firmware update check fail to connect with update server many times....

[Basspig]

I just switched the DNS back to 'default ISP' and was able to run a speed test this time.

I'm thinking maybe the default wasn't asserted when the router was fresh out of the box. Is that possible?

I was also noticing that if I got logged out of the UI, the nest time I logged in the QoS - WAN/LAN Bandwidth Monitor would not show any activity. I've set the log out time out to "0" now, and as long as I leave the browser tab open, the bandwidth monitor seems to work.