Recent content by boggsie

Thanks for the recommendation ... As you suggested, I went ahead and tried the Device Discovery and the Firmware Recovery tool(s). The instructions for both were similar and relatively straightforward. Alas, there is no joy in Mudville.

I think my ASUS RT-AC68U is dead? This router is setup as an AIMESH node, connected via Ethernet backhaul. I've been running Merlin on this and the base router (RT-AC88U) for more than a few years without any issues. Today morning, I came downstairs and WiFi connectivity was unexpectedly...

I've been reading a bunch over the past few days and the concensus is that if you want turn-key, then get a complete unit. However, if you like to tweak and want options if the drive happens to go bad, then source the unit and the drive separately, while obviously keeping drive case...

... and I would add: never trust your backup to a single tape. back in the day, I had a raid-5 array degrade and before I could swap in a replacement disk, another drive failed ... bummer no worries, my trusty tape will restore my data ... bummer RAID-1 BACKUP TEST BACKUP MEDIA...

First off, 90 minutes ago I knew very, very little about NAS. Thanks to this web site and fourms, I feel that I am informed well enough to keep from making a regretable and costly mistake. With the help of the resources on this site, I narrowed my candidates down to the D-Link DNS-321 vs...