Recent content by anotherengineer

Forgot about those on cell service, was thinking their laptop and/or desktop since they are on those 90% of the time.

Indeed. I don't really care if my ISP sees me going to SNB/techpowerup several times a day. I do care about identity theft or personal banking info leaking and filtering nasty/inappropriate stuff from my kids..........have I done enough for that? I don't know, I hope so, I'm not a...

This is what I have router WAN set to https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/#familyshield Our FamilyShield nameservers are: - 208.67.222.123 - 208.67.220.123 Before if you tried to access adult or other content the cisco/open dns screen would pop up on browser but now it doesn't do that. Looks...

did that, corrected FF and LAN on router and got this...........doesn't look like open dns family

how about this default firefox setting??

Indeed But it isn’t and I don’t know why. It used to though.

Interesting...........I was just following opendns setup instructions and worked like that before windows says not opendns family LAN worth a try I guess done and no change

I have this set but it does not seem to be picking up since it's not blocking adult content

Good day, My router says mtu is 1500, however speed guide analyser says otherwise (below), does/can cake affect the MTU? « SpeedGuide.net TCP Analyzer Results » Client OS/browser: Windows 10 (Firefox 146.0) MSS: 1364 MTU: 1404 TCP Window: 263168 (not multiple of MSS) RWIN Scaling: 8...

I'm assuming he is long gone though? Which DNS do you use and do you use DoT and or DoH?

Interesting. I have ran DNS bench full paid version and it said (below) which was odd because I did. I was using open DNS with family filter for adult stuff cause kids in the house. The fastest DNS servers that came back for me were all of the CIRA ones. (using only the UDP scan and not DOT...

I bought a set of DDR4-3200 crucial pro 2x32GB for $160-ish CAD, either unavailable now or over $600!! From some articles on techpowerup the memory companies are saying 2-3 years before shortages reduce.......

That simple? Security risks/concerns with the home network?

Hello, my son wants me to set up port forwarding on our main home router for a game server. Not sure how to do this on Merlin, but also not sure of the risks?? Any specific way this should be done properly? He sent me this info Thanks

My AX86U PRO is still on 3004.388_4, however latest release on sourceforge is saying 3006.102.5, not 3004.388.10. What version did the ax86u pro split at so I can read/follow proper changelog? thanks edit - did more reading 3004.388.9 (9-Apr-2025) - NOTE: BCM4912 models such as the GT-AX6000...