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Thanks for this insight as I was able to get the button back by assigning static DHCP IP to my address. That's when I learned that monopoly mode wasn't actually really enabled because it required me to press it to enable it when coming from the monopoly mode IP. But when logged into the GUI from...

hm, any idea who added this feature? Would it be possible to remove this feature altogether? Since it's basically been reduced to a zombie background process taking up resources and interfering with print sharing while retaining no way to disable it from the GUI?

I wonder if it's a bug that the button for enabling / disabling Monopoly mode is not there anymore after enabling it. Did you just upgrade your firmware?

Ironically I just came here to find this out myself. My router is stuck in Monopoly mode and I don't see an off switch. Anyone know?

Sounds like Have you tried downgrading to 3004_388.8_0 to see if it works?

Works for me but I'm running asusmerlin on an ax88u. Don't know if that makes a difference but it's weird if your router isn't even recognized after you reboot. That would suggest to me its not supported on the merlin firmware of your model.

Thanks. My issue was because I'd stupidly tried to load the firmware for the wrong model. d0h! I'm really glad losing DDNS was the worst of what resulted. After downloading and upgrading to aX88u instead of aC88u everything worked quite perfectly. My problem was that it's impossible to...

This is true for me as well. The difference is that it didn't actually upgrade my firmware. It threw me back on 386.1-2 with broken DDNS. I tried to upgrade again and while loading it said firmware was corrupted. Edit: DDNS has gone back to functioning on my old firmware. I think I will stay...

Curious what made you decide on VyprVPN?

Got it. Thank you for clarifying.

Sorry I wasn't trying to insult your intelligence but my speculation was that a drive that was still using MBR and improperly formatted with one giant 5 TB NTFS partition would not be recognized by the router because of the 2 TiB limitations of MBR. I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing.

Oh you didn't know? MBR partition limitation is 2.2 TiB. But you can create additional extended partitions with logical partitions in them. Regardless I have come across the larger than 2.2 TiB limitation before as well. The limit comes from MBR having a 32 bits wide field for a partition's...

You mean primary partition sizes up to 2TB? Yeah I just wasn't sure the layout of drive. MBR could have primary partition of 2TB and extended partition with the rest. I always seem to get these weird 3 partition layouts on those preformatted drives with fat32 on them.

Ah. Sorry I missed that. But are you using GPT? I ask because you said you've got an old 512MB drive working. That appears to indicate its using the old antiquated mbr instead of gpt. I'd use gdisk and convert to UEFI/GPT with bios boot partition. That way router will for sure see it.

Awesome, thanks for the tip!