Recent content by brtravel

thank you for the reply! that would make sense, but I can't see DHCP turned on anywhere, do you mean in the AP or the bridge (all 3 pieces ubiquiti)? I've just scoured all three again and don't see any DHCP option turned on. google isn't helping me find turning off DHCP for a unifi AP...

I have a beloved AC56U running Merlin, and the internet connection is shared to a neighboring building using two Ubiquiti Litebeam dishes to create a bridge, and an Ubiquiti UAP-AC-Lite access point to provide the wireless connection in that building. I have all the Ubiquiti gear in very...

anyone know the command to query the internet connection status? edit: pinging google (ping -c 1 -q google.com) accomplishes this pretty well, but I wonder if someone knows exactly how to query specifically the "Internet status: " field in the Network Map GUI?

My friends consider me tech savvy, but that's a low bar, I am quickly lost on command line instructions so I've previously only used the GUI for my Merlin router. However last year Apple made their Shortcuts app a lot more powerful and useful, and I've been having fun automating some things in...

I have been having intermittent problems for a couple months now getting connectivity with my AC56U running Merlin and an OpenVPN client for all my traffic. Previously I would try many things and restart many times, sometimes something would 'fix' the problem, sometimes nothing would, but the...

I am having major NTP issues as well with this update on my AC56U. I was occasionally having them before this update and the system time would be set to Jan 1 2015, after a few reboots it would usually correct itself to the correct time. I saw in the notes for this update that there is an NTP...

My AC56U with Merlin is working wonderfully for me with OpenVPN, UPnP media sharing, and frequently using Download Master. I don't wish to change anything, except, I need more range. Turning the AC56U radios off and running a UAP to a more central location seems like a good and reasonably cheap...

I was upgrading while I read this and you had me worried. I'm using LastPass with the browser extension, and although paste doesn't seem to be enabled, the little LastPass star shows in the password field and can be clicked to insert the password.

I've felt the same way about the scripts, the wiki is certainly not a step-by-step tutorial. Please continue to share what you learn and if you get this working.

Thank you for the replies, it seems that changing to 'Strict' did fix the DNS leaks according to those two checking sites. However I'm still having issues with some Google services/pages that I wonder if they're DNS related, but this is a good start and I'm happy to see the conversation continue.

I'm using the latest Merlin build (also tried 2 other recent builds) and when using OpenVPN client I find that my DNS is leaking when checking at https://dnsleaktest.com/ and https://ipleak.net/ . Either my true ISP alone will show, or a combination of my true ISP and other DNS at my VPN server...

Protecting yourself while on unsecured wifi is a great use of a VPN, but there are other uses that make sense in the home environment also. 1) Privacy - using a VPN keeps your internet usage private from your ISP, some ISPs throttle certain kinds of traffic, this would prevent that. It also...

Is this the post? http://www.snbforums.com/threads/how-to-setup-ssid-for-vpn-and-ssid-for-regular-isp-using-merlinwrt.9839/

Thank you for the reply, and for the firmware! Do you know of a guide to getting started with scripts? I really just want to get the SSID for VPN and SSID for ISP thing working, but I realize that Wiki entry is for more advanced users; I don't understand the script and I don't even know where...

Since we're discussing simple scripts questions, I'll jump in here. A few months ago I was a total newb to all this, and of course still am a 98% newb. I got an AC56U running Merlin (April '15 build) with OpenVPN client. That's good, but I want to do more using JFFS scripts. I've browsed all...