Recent content by eastavin

One other side question where does the current default wireguard DNS setting point to? It says DNS=10.6.0.1 but I am unaware of what is there? With this setting things on the web do get resolved.

Hi. A friend with next to no networking experience has configured his asus-pro ax86u router to use Pihole for ad-blocking, DNS (unbound) and DHCP. I said congratulations. amazing what you can learn at youtube college. As far as I can tell everything works ok when I am using a pc on his LAN...

On the off chance you still have not bought a new one in the last 6 months since writing this... I like the horse race display for trying to infer what to buy. Have a look at the weekly download numbers for AX and BE routers here https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/ Its easy...

Could someone shed some light please on this? I understand Merlin is EOL for the ac68u (and that is fine) but I see Asus is still pumping out some firmware updates. The last stock firmware from Asus was Mar 10 2025 Version 3.0.0.4.386_51733. Looking at the Merlin change notes I see the...

Judging from your question you should in the following order immediately discard all saved router configs, check the latest firmware is installed, factory reset your router, then manually configure any changes. Enjoy life :)

Overall I find the asus DDNS service ok. I say OK (versus great) because sometimes the time to live seems excessive. Like a day. But then its free. I have only noticed it down for an extended period once in about 5 years of using it. That lasted just over a week. I am sure there may have...

I dont recall such an issue on the AC68u series. I have several such devices and use them with 2.4Ghz shutoff and I have never had to use the 2.4Ghz panel to change authentication for 5Ghz. FWIW this sounds like a bug?

You can use the old now. Deregister it on your old router, then register it on the new router. When the router gets to your summer cottage it will pick up the new IP address when it starts up. The issue with this free service is that sometimes the time to live might be longer than you...

Interesting. I was looking for a ax86u Pro and everyone in Canada is out of stock too. Maybe they want to EOL the AX series over at Asus? I did a comparision of product reviews on the web versus comments here on SNB about the BE series and they seem to be 180 degrees out of sync. The web...

Depending on your location they may. Pretty sure rogers offers 10gig business internet, though the price may pose an issue. I think 2gig is around $160/month.

Hello. fw 3006.102.4 Starting from factory reset router. I disabled Smart Connect. Then I switched off the 2.4Ghz radio. I noticed that the authentication method was set to WPA3 for both 2.4 and 5GHz at default. Of course it did not take long to discover that some devices dont work with...

Hi. Have a rt-ax86u (not pro). Back in December I changed the old usb storage stick for the Patriot burst 120GB SSD referenced in many posts here. No complaints using the stick but it only had flexqos and was getting old. Formatted the SSD with all the recommended settings via amtm. Set it up...

ok thanks. Maybe I will uninstall it at reinstall it then. I usually work from the Asus GUI so I was assuming the wiki meant the button on the admin panel needs to be on. I now understand its automatic once you install NTP Merlin. I just reviewed the amtm ntp merlin panel and I see that there...

Ax-86u. Setup DNS over TLS strict. Also had amtm download NTP Merlin and start it as I have a couple clients that could use more accurate time. Noticed in the Merlin wiki it says "Note that TLS requires a properly configured clock. DNS Privacy won't use encryption until after your router's...

If you are interested in nuances this is a good blog page. Be sure to check out the links around the P2P server diagram as there are some informative pages there. https://www.nozominetworks.com/blog/new-reolink-p2p-vulnerabilities-show-iot-security-camera-risks Edward