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    No More Social Media

    you must be picking them very carefully. LG and Sony come with Facebook installed (you can only disable, not completely uninstall), as well as other such junk. they assume people will want them out of the box. i even have a really old (6 years probably) Nokia 301 that came with Twitter. yet...
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    11ax is dead. It's now Wi-Fi 6.

    unfortunately the standard naming convention would have ended up in a confusing mess rather quickly. we're at ax now, thee revisions later we'd be at ba, then bb, then... wait for it... bg. and further on, bn. so just imagine how manufacturers would have to explain to older customers that we're...
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    ASUS RT-AC86U Dual Band AC2900 Wireless Router Reviewed

    confirmed. my 86U goes only as far as 112 on 5.2GHz, but i get better SNR (measured with WiFi Analyzer on Android) than on 36. i did not test the 87U on this band, but I think the signal was better on 36 for that model in the same environment before i moved it (it also works better on channel 13...
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    87u Replacement

    i'm not sure the 86U has link aggregation. i looked in the menus and didn't see anything. the 88U is listed as supporting it on Asus' website. there's also the upcoming AX88U, if you need a fast CPU and are willing to wait one year after its release for a mature firmware. also, its price will...
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    ASUS RT-AC86U Dual Band AC2900 Wireless Router Reviewed

    well, i decided to order it while the sale lasts. i've been tracking its price for a year, since it first hit the market, and this is the lowest it's been since then. it launched at a discount, probably because the first batch of customers were practically beta testers. i remember how the 87U...
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    ASUS RT-AC86U Dual Band AC2900 Wireless Router Reviewed

    maybe i misunderstood the graphs. i just found another review that compared exactly these two models, and it seems like the 86U is a slight improvement over the 87U on the 5GHz band. my point about the streams was that, if you have transfer speeds on a 4 stream router similar to a 3 stream model...
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    ASUS RT-AC86U Dual Band AC2900 Wireless Router Reviewed

    i'm thinking of upgrading from an AC87U to an AC86U (actually shuffling some hardware around and replacing a 10 year old SMC tri-band router in a location where i need more wi-fi range). the review says that the 5 GHz is not really that good on the 86U relative to the other models in the test...
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    [Release] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.6 is now available

    it's the same as other people's obsession of trying to use security exploits daily. newer versions come with security patches.
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    [Preview 384/NG] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.5 early test builds

    Correct. The ISP already does all the work, the router doesn't need to update anything on its own. I access it through the DDNS address all the time. It's just that, since I can't get it configured to know that it's on a DDNS address, the .ovpn file only has whatever IP address the router has at...
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    [Release 384/NG] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.4 is now available

    i find that i am unable to generate share links in AiCloud. frankly i don't know for how long this problem has been present, since i haven't used this feature in a long time. is it working for anyone else with this firmware version (and i just need to reboot or something) or is it a genuine bug...
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    [Preview 384/NG] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.5 early test builds

    RMerlin, is it possible to not have to use a ddns-start script and just tell the router what its address should be, without having to input anything else? my ISP is providing DDNS as a free service and I don't have to configure anything other than pick a name on their management website. i see...
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    [Release 384/NG] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.4 is now available

    i don't usually make these "me too, +1" posts, but it seems necessary in this case: i upgraded from 380.69_2 directly to 384.4_2 and it's been working well so far after almost 11 days uptime. i did a reset using the hardware button on the back after updating the firmware, then reconfigured...
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    VPN System Log

    I get similar log entries while using an uncommon port number (over 20000). Is this the result of a port scanning that checks everything up to 65535 or is 443 still open somehow, even though nothing that I configured uses is? I also have remote HTTPS access, but it is also on an unusual port...
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    OpenVPN server error (RT-AC87U)

    Thank you, I tried searching the forums but probably used the wrong words. This thread should be deleted.
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    OpenVPN server error (RT-AC87U)

    I have the OpenVPN server enabled on my router, as I use it to connect remotely to my home PC and an USB HDD attached to the router. From time to time I see these entries in the general log (default message log level: notice, log only messages more urgent than: debug): Mar 4 17:53:47...
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    Upgrade to RT-AC87U

    save a little more money and buy the 86U when the firmware is mature enough (after Merlin releases 382.1). the 87U will eventually get on the AM382 firmware, but it depends on Asus when that will happen. if you do decide to get the 87U, buy a 14" laptop cooler with a large fan for it - you'll...
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    Connect two routers with OpenVPN

    actually, I would keep the server on the 87U and use the client on the 68U, because it has a less powerful CPU. if only the two are connected it probably won't matter, since the tunnel will be limited by the slowest CPU, but if you want to have this permanent tunnel and also connect an...
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    Asus RT-AC87U - Issues from release fixed?

    i got mine in January 2015. the stock firmware was a mess. RMerlin did an awesome job, and so did ASUS (they could have just dropped it to cut their losses). this year the firmware got better and better, and i think back in spring i started seeing actually stable releases (not needing restarts...
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    Limiting Time (hours per day) is it possible?

    you could do it for wi-fi connections by using the built-in scheduler (Professional tab in Wifi) to only have the radio on during certain times of the day. or you could maybe just set the PC to be on a scheduled guest network if you really need both bands of your router for other devices. i'm...
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    Broken mac address filter

    it happened to me also, and I also noticed it when it wouldn't let me add any new devices to the network (pretty much ignoring new entries). you can disable it and it will allow you to add new devices to the network. alternatively, write down or take a screenshot of the addresses in the filter...
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