[Milhouse]

My bad with saying 8.0.3, no idea why I thought the version was that, if course I mean 8.0.2.

Phew thanks, thought it might have been something else...

After 15 minutes of a forced N connection, i have not seen one hang/pause yet, so yes I would say forcing N still works good. And on forced N 5ghz i still get ~100mbps on iperf tests to my nfs server, so its still good enough for my means.

And Yes, I would say since after 7.0.x, the 8812au AC part has been bugged.

The version Im using is 711, note Im not that familiar with the betas and what not, this is the first one Ive tried, but seeing as you wanted some comment on this particular wifi usb chip, thats why I installed it.

Unfortunately these Realtek drivers are pretty poorly supported. In fact, they're mostly supported by the wider open source community rather than Realtek and the current rtl8812au repository we have been using until recently now appears to be dead and no longer maintained, hence why I've been scrabbling around trying to find a different repository in the last few days - the zebulon2 and paspro repositories looked promising, particularly as they seemed to be using a more recent driver (but apparently it still doesn't fix AC).

If LE8+ and these builds work with rtl8812au reliably on N only that's probably about as good as it's going to get unless there are any dramatic improvements in driver support (ie. new driver, or an AC bug fix). With an actively supported repository that's more likely than one that is dead.

Thanks for testing and reporting!