Recent content by BosseSwede

My heatshrink is 2 mm yellow, so I think I am good. :) It covers the pulled back shield tied to ground and makes it harder for water to get in when raining.

1) The earlier signal drop might actually have been caused by a heavy rain downpour. But it did not drop as far down as I had earlier with a poorer antenna going down towards -88 dBm... 2) I forgot to mention distances, the IoT is about 25 m from the router but outside the house obviously. The...

I have two installations looking almost the same, one at home and the other at my summer cottage. The home installation was upgraded to the RT-AX86U Pro in June 2024 following a lightning strike close by which killed the WAN Ethernet input of the RT-AC86U router I used before. On that...

UPDATE/NEW QUESTION The router has been taken off the VPN duties and a Linux box on the remote network is instead handling the connection to the main LAN at home. This is now working well and the LAN-LAN integration works both ways. New issue I have now discovered a new issue, this time...

Finally solved the LAN-LAN integration without using the ASUS RT-AX86U PRO router VPN functions. I had to configure an Ubuntu machine on the remote LAN as an OpenVPN client which auto-connects to the home LAN. This client then had to be configured for IP forwarding. Then I had to set up routing...

Talked too early regarding LAN-LAN integration Now back home where the main server is located and to which the remote summer home site connects via OpenVPN using the VPN client functionality in the new router to merge the two LAN:s. When I was in the cottage I managed to get it working as seen...

FINALIZING Today I switched on the new router and managed to get "almost" everything checked out OK. But these items occurred: 1) No LED light For some reason all of the indicator LED:s on the front of the router have been switched off so I cannot see the state of the router by looking at them...

Configuration problem somewhere? I have now replaced the old router with the new RT-AX86U Pro and checked it out. Mostly it does work Ok including the connection via VPN back to the home LAN. But I have found a few items that are non-working: 1) Front status LED:s black The row of LED...

I don't see an option to save the DHCP reservations to a text file in the RT-AC86U gui... At least not on the page where the reservations are shown.

I ended up doing this: 1) Used ssh on the old router and used nvram get dhcp_staticlist to get the current reservations which I copied into a file on my laptop. 2) I edited this to separate all reservations into one line each 3) Sorted them by IP number 4) Then I used this to manually add all...

Oh boy! Yesterday a few minutes following my reading the above response there was a 7 hour power outage that arrived in the middle of me using the SSH nvram command.... So only today I was able to continue and now I have a problem regarding how to execute the nvram command: 1) On the old...

Thanks for your input! Much appreciated! The problem is that I have to do the configuration of the new router while at the same time having the old router operational and managing the network... Only when the new router is fully configured will I shut down the old router and then set the new...

OK, I managed to get the router to show the familiar admin page by doing this: 1) I connected the WAN port to my LAN by Ethernet 2) I switched on the router power 3) I connected my laptop to the WiFi network published by the router 4) Then I connected to 192.168.50.1 in Firefox and got to a new...

PANIC! So I have gotten into trouble with the new router: - I connected my laptop to the Ethernet port #1 on the router - I left WAN unconnected because I do not want to interfere with my ISP at this point - I powered on the router and after a while when the lights stabilized I tried to get to...

I figured as much, but there is a problem in entering the DHCP reservations because at that point you need to have set the LAN IP address to the actual used address otherwise you cannot enter the correct reservations (20 of them). And then my laptop will get confused to be on one or the other...