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Amazon ... not for the isolated homelab or personal privacy. Why bother with OPNsense, Home Assistant, or Jellyfin or even ZimaOS when Amazon will find your pets before you know they are gone. Alexa, the date that literally hangs on every word you say. Personal cloud storage is for those who...

7 hub And/or add a third AImesh WIFI mesh node for better coverage (which could be an upgraded but lower cost WIFI 6/7 ASUS AX/BE router) as there was no problem reported with ethernet speeds at this time and they do come with 2.5G ports.

"Testing against the WAN address" is ambiguous. From a scanning host on the LAN, the WAN address and all other hosts on the extranet are visible via the LAN gateway (done that more than once) enforced by the firewall rules governing the LAN side. To be a meaningful scan, the scanner must be on...

? What is local "AI" support - a faster matrix multiplication unit on this totally underwhelming platform. It is hard to imagine what application will be simple enough with such totally inadequate total compute and memory for it to be useful, but let ASUS prove what they can do. In good faith...

Agreed. Agreed.

WIFI 6 seemed to me to be a worthwhile upgrade from prior generations. But for now constrained by Spectrum cable service, faster WIFI will make little difference and my coverage if anything goes too far into the neighborhood. Not playing with radio parameters, so WIFI 6 is good enough.

How do you think "harden the perimeter" interacts with the customer's ability on the BE19000AI's to download unsecured docker containers? Realize it is not the immediate issue, but consider the implications of extending a bare metal home router into unrestrained network utility and application...

14,000 member botnet of ASUS routers, very hard to disinfect. Not good. The article does not indicate the exploits used or the fixes other than update now and update often which really explains nothing by itself.

The Pro has six ethernet ports: 2 are 2.5G, and 4 are 1G. It is really a smart switch as those ports can be re-assigned to other VLANs. In router mode, one 2.5G port is reserved for WAN and the other 2.5G port is LAN by default but can be assigned to WAN (in bonded mode I believe but have never...

Oh come on. One has three (3) likely decorative antennas and the other has four (4)! 🤣 That's what you get for listening to marketing. TDLR: The AX88U Pro uses the new processor also found in the BE Wifi 7 product line so that ASUSWRT and Merlin will likely recieve updates for some time to come...

Get off the couch, kid. It is full of bugs, deadly bugs. Never mind the over stuffed furniture, haven't seen a solid answer yet. The truth, you can't handle the truth! [I remember Multics before UNIX].

Or will WIFI 8 be the ATSC 3 of WIFI? Time will tell. Seems mainly to introduce standardized mesh architecture and some new analog modulation. One thing to note, WIFI is very close to exceeding the needed features for many people just like PCs did15 or 20 years ago which will still do what many...

The Cisco CBW150AX would max out at 50 clients of which I have more. Not bothering with the rest because they can't reuse existing equipment (same as OP) and appear to do best (but not only) with at least one ethernet backhaul. I do my PortVLANs in an external switch, most people will never use...

What? I have run a very similar configuration with the two routers literally next to each other for testing and backhauled across ground floor by ethernet with no complications. Can reach 100 feet into outside fields, basement, second floor, and attic with rock solid connectivity. So what "SMB...