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    Why Your Network Cable is Slowing You Down

    This is an excellent article about installing Cat5e, vs Cat 6 or Cat6a. Here's a excerpt, but the article gets into much more detail as to why: "...people who are paying extra for Cat 6 and 6a assemblies, and who think that they are paying that little extra for the sake of "future proofing,"...
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    Feature Set of Smart Switches

    With the rise of more and more connected devices, I would like to start segmenting my networks (home/home office, small office with retail front) for security reasons. By segmenting, I mean Layer 2 VLANs. The wikipedia articles on Network Switches states that there are two categories of...
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    Authentication in an Wired Network

    Can you point me in the right direction to learn about how to authenticate clients in a wired network, similar to a key in a WiFi network? I'm hoping there is a simple way to keep an unapproved device from being plugged into and gaining access to the data on a wired network. We're currently...
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    Tracking Down Bandwidth Hogs

    Using Asus RT-N66U with Merlin 378.55 I'm trying to figure what is eating up bandwidth on my network. I first suspected NetFlix or Youtube, so I blocked those outright from the entire network. However, there is still something hogging bandwidth. I've enabled Traffic Monitor and can see what...
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    Parental Controls & HOSTS based Ad Blocking

    I've implemented the HOSTS based ad blocking script discussed in this thread. It works, except... when DNS Filtering under Parental Controls is enabled, ads are no longer blocked. I'm guessing that when DNS Filtering is enabled, the router is ignoring the router HOSTS file. Is there anyway to...
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    Reseting WAN port

    I'm currently running 738.51 on a RT-N66U. Since installing 738.50, I've had a number of issues which I've been trying to work through. The current issue is my WAN port dropping. When the WAN drops, I am not able to ping the cable modem. I could write a script on a CRON job that pings the cable...
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    Enabling Both OpenVPN Servers

    ASUS RT-N66U Merlin 376.47 I'd like to access my net from both Android devices & windows PCs using OpenVPN. Apparently Android will only work with a TAP configuration. And, apparently a TUN configuration is needed for the Windows PC to have full network access. As such, I've got one...
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    Wireless Coverage Comparison

    I'm current running an Asus RT-N66U with Merlin (376.45) as my router. For wireless APs, I'm using two Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 flashed with dd-wrt. I originally bought the N66U because of its high rankings for wireless coverage, but I've found the G54s provides better bandwidth at greater...
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