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The more devices I connect to my router, the slower the internet gets.
I certainly do have the channels set differently :) 2.4GHz: AC66U @ 6 & AC51U @ 11 5GHz: AC66U @ 100 [DFS] & AC51U @ 48 I'm forever power cycling my modem in anger :) also power cycled in the twilight hours in case I'd fair better rebooting when the rest of the UK is offline. I'll go wired...- spider
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The more devices I connect to my router, the slower the internet gets.
I have found the setting to monitor per IP so am keeping an eye on that now - a handy feature to know about. I don't see anything out of the ordinary (to my untrained eye). The occasional activity from my various IoT devices (Hive, Philips Hue). Majority of activity from the (wired) PC I was...- spider
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The more devices I connect to my router, the slower the internet gets.
Hi All, Perhaps I should have put this under 'General Wireless Discussion' - although I am happy to spend money to improve my situation! TL;DR; AC66U - lots of wireless clients - with one client added internet is super fast; streaming is great - the more clients I add the slower the internet...- spider
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Supplementing my router with a desktop PC
Ahah, Perhaps this is how I should be doing it. Modem to Router 1, standard wifi no VPN Router 1 Port to Managed Switch to act as WAN port for Mini PC Mini PC Running VPN Client and acting as a gateway for Router 2 All traffic from Router 2 will be passed through the Mini PC which is running... -
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Asus N66U running fw 380.65 VPN has "start with wan" problem
Hi, thanks for your post on my other thread, it's good to know I'm not the only one wanting to find a solution to that particular problem. When I am at home again I'll reboot my router and grab the log so we can compare. -
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Supplementing my router with a desktop PC
Hi John, I can confirm mine does work with the "start on wan" option enabled. It sounds like we have similar requirements for sure! I've been thinking about this and I think I can condense my original question down to this: Can I outsource the VPN processing onto an always on desktop and have... -
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Supplementing my router with a desktop PC
In the past I have set up something called PiHole on a raspberry pi which enables you to block adverts network wide by configuring the router to force clients to use the Raspberry Pi with Pi-Hole installed as the DNS server. Using my Asus VM60 (Intel® Core™ i3-3217U Processor, 4GB RAM... -
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Supplementing my router with a desktop PC
I've signed up at ExpressVPN and have set up my Asus AC66U (with Merlin 380.65_0) as a client to their service so now every client connected to that router is also routed via the VPN service. There are a number of things I do not like about my setup and a number of things I'd like to have in...