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    Asus Router/Network Security Question...

    Thanks to everyone who replied here!
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    Asus Router/Network Security Question...

    A family member just moved into an apartment in an older row home. I purchased a modem and Asus router for him, and he connected it up and it didn't work. When I went over to troubleshoot, the landlord had an Ethernet cable running into his apartment, and my son had that connected to the...
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    VPN Nube - Speed Question

    Thanks Captain. I spoke with NordVPN today, and they shy away from talking about performance - even sharing what their customer's experiences have been. SurfShark offers WireGuard, but for me and my connection, IKEv2 is faster.
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    VPN Nube - Speed Question

    I've shopped around for VPN's and selected SurfShark on performance, privacy and price. I contacted their tech support when I was shopping to find out what kind of performance hit I'll see with a VPN. I was told by SurfShark to expect a 30% decrease in download speed, worst case. I have a 600mbs...
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    Home Network - Starting Over...

    Still working today. Great!
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    Home Network - Starting Over...

    Everyone... I don't know how this happened, but as I was answering dosborne's post, I randomly looked in File Explorer and DAMN! I could see laptop B from laptop A. I could also see A from B. I set up the shared printer connected to laptop A and B prints to it perfectly. The only things I...
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    Home Network - Starting Over...

    I tried pinging using IP's and I couldn't. I am trying to connect over WiFi. Any other ideas?
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    Home Network - Starting Over...

    Thanks everyone for your input. I've been busy fixing other issues since I started this post. Let me provide a little more info... I need to connect two laptops on my home network via WiFi, one of which has a printer attached via USB that I need to share. I followed the tutorial on TenForums...
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    Home Network - Starting Over...

    OE, It's not some type of official "hub", it's just a desktop in the basement that all of the laptops in the house connect to in order to print. So, it's the "hub" of my network. That's all. :)
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    Home Network - Starting Over...

    I've never gotten my Win10-based home network to operate 100%. Sometimes it works for some computers, other times it just doesn't. I am starting over and want to make sure I get a clean start and possibly get this right! What I have now is an old desktop as my home Hub - it's got the printer...
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    Asus AC86 Dropping 5GHz

    Thanks telUK. I'll try your settings if/when my router craps out again.
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    Asus AC86 Dropping 5GHz

    I set the 5GHz radio to Channel 157 (up from 149) and bandwidth to 20/40/80 (was 80). Speeds are back to what I had with the previous settings - so that's a good thing. Overall, as I think about it, it's probably unlikely that the 5GHz radio became unavailable for all devices in my home...
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    Asus AC86 Dropping 5GHz

    Just set my 86U to Channel 40, using 20/40/80 bandwidth. Trend Micro and Smart Connect were already off. What used to be a 550mbps down connection on my laptop is now 32ombps down tops. I guess that's the price of moving to a lower channel. But maybe it will be more reliable? I made this...
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    Asus AC86 Dropping 5GHz

    Thanks OE!
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    Asus AC86 Dropping 5GHz

    I might try turning off the Trend Micro AI protection and possibly dropping to a lower channel.
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