Recent content by balcy24

I don't know if this will help but I was having slow speed issues with my Spectrum internet and RT-AC68U. Spectrum upgraded their service to 200/11 months ago but I never saw anything above 99/2. Turns out it was my Bandwidth Setting under Adaptive QoS/QoS in my router. I moved it up to 250/20...

Using Chrome it was hilarious!!! For all the work you do here I can see where you might need some comic relief.

Now that was funny!!! :D

My RT-AC68U has been running 16+ days now with no reboots using 374.40_beta3.

I use Phonepower VoIP but it works basically the same way. For my home network I set DNS, Time, NTP, RSVP (port 53, 37, 123, 3455, transferred 0-10) and my NAS as the highest priority, Phonepower as high, web surf (port 80, 443, transferred 0-512) at medium and file transfers (port 80, 443...

I made sure everything was disabled that was named in the various online articles about possible Asus vulnerabilities, anything I didn't actually need to use, yet my WAN IP address was one of the 13,000 named (YIKES) so now I'm really concerned. I turned off all the AiCloud stuff, FTP access...

Out of curiosity, I just installed Lan Speed Test and LST Server on my home network. My laptop has an Intel 7260 AC wireless card connected to an Asus RT-AC68U with Merlin 374.39. My desktop is connected using wired gigabit. My max test speed was 239/319 Mbps going from laptop to desktop (same...

I have a Synology NAS on my home network (AC68U). You need to forward the port to your NAS internal IP address not to the outside IP. I have ports forwarded for DSM (tcp, port 5000), photo station (tcp, port 80), DS Cloud (tcp, port 6690) and WebDAV (tcp, ports 5005, 5050). I use my NAS...

I just ran 2 naked tests and got 5.4Mbps down using testmy.net. Then running naked on Speedtest I got 24Mbps down so I'm not sure why the difference. I do lose some speed in the evening because of the neighbors but not that much! Immediately running PIA OpenVPN on the PC I got 6.1Mbps on...

I just did a quick Ookla Speedtest of my AC68 (running Merlins 374.39 build) using my Charter 30/3Mb service. Naked was 34.12 down, 3.07 up. Using PIA from the PC and connecting to their midwest server which is closest to me, I got 86.46 down, 2.76 up (really weird). Using PIA OpenVPN thru the...

Yes from the program, under advanced.

I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish but I was having trouble getting uTorrent and port forwarding to work with PIA. After doing a ton of research I came across a tip that worked for me. Using the PIA advanced interface, enter a remote port number (I used 9201) and check port...

Update: I found the culprit. I noticed when my wife was on the cordless phone my link speed dropped to almost nil. My cordless phone is a Uniden 5.8 GHz which interfered with the router. I replaced the phone with a DECT 6.0 now all is well even with beamforming turned on. If others have flaky 5...

Thanks! That information solved my 5 GHz connection problem with my RT-AC68U. My Roku 3 is maybe 5 ft from my router and 4 ft from my laptop and using 5 GHz with the same control channel. I had noticed in inSSIDer that my link score was only 83 too. My laptop link speed would bounce from 866 Mbs...

I had disabled beamforming over a week ago and it helped for a while (several days). I tried powering down for a min and rebooted but no change. I then went into the wireless 5 GHz settings and changed wireless mode from auto to n + ac and so far so good in case others have similar issues...