Recent content by dfunked

+1 for ditching it. As others have said there are far superior cloud options available without the huge security risk.

Was going to say you shouldn't need to ever plug in a home hub. Mine never even arrived when my connection went live, but thankfully my AX86U worked first time.

Just wanted to chip in and say thanks too. Up and running in a few minutes and does exactly what I needed it to do.

Yeah, if my AX86U suddenly died, I'd probably just look at a pro instead as a replacement, not this. Just doesn't seem like good value at all unless the 2.5Gb ports are useful. It's the perfect form factor for me, but not at that price and without true wi-fi 7.

Up for preorder in the UK at overclockers for a fairly eye-watering £300. Curious to see what everywhere else lists it at.

You shouldn't need to install it. Just connect via SSH and type amtm. You are actually running Merlin firmware? (sorry, had to ask!)

Yeah, the single 2.5Gb port on the AX86U has always puzzled me, and now they've gone and repeated the mistake. Either put at least two of the max speed ports in, or just don't bother at all.

Where are you seeing 200Mb upload speeds with BT FTTP? On openreach lines it's 110Mb for the typical 900Mb down package and 115Mb for the newer 1.6Gb down package that only EE are offering at the moment.

Kind of hard to answer without knowing what kind of area you need to cover, what kind of building you have etc... Even then only you will know which areas have poor coverage. I would say experiment, experiment and then experiment some more. Figure out where the worst coverage is and put a node...

Donated. I couldn't imagine going back to stock firmware now after using Asuswrt-Merlin for a few years. Keep up the great work.

I use an AC86U as a aimesh node without issues when mixed with an AX86U as router. I think I had issues with WPA3 enabled, but I had issues with that in general so ended up disabling it. It's not ideal, but if you want to reuse old kit then it'll certainly work. My reaction is why on earth do...

Yeah it was ridiculous. I had my heart set on the new (at the time) AX86U and even then it took a month after launch for me to find it at a sane price.

No point in jumping in until we have the clients to back it up. I'm due to get a new phone this year (Pixel 8 Pro probably), so that combined with a new NIC and possibly a new laptop and I might consider upgrading at some point next year if they come out with an equivalent to the AX86U.

Did you have issues with the AX86U? Mine just worked flawlessly as soon as I plugged it in, which is lucky because the BT home hub never actually got delivered for some reason. Tracking shows that it's still in the Gatwick sorting office over a month after it should've been delivered. Just...

Not sure about iOS, but for Android at least it's a per network setting and not an overall setting for the device. You can disable it for your home network and still make use of it on public networks, where as a security setting it actually makes sense. I tend to turn it off at home on each of...