Recent content by ecktt

🤣 I work at the beach....but I live next to a swap.

As the title says but here some background. I currently have a Netgear R7000 which has good range but not enough and the 2.4GHz band is slooow. The R7000 needed restarting every few days now, so it was flashed to FreshTomato Version 2024.1 and so far, so good. I preferred the single SSID of the...

My old Asus rt-ac56u has passed on to the great beyond. I'd like to replace it with something faster with (hopefully) a much wider range. The RT-ac56u had a feature that allowed it to failover from a cable modem to an Android phone via USB as the internet source. This has been very useful in the...

I recently changed out a buggy Asus RT-AC56U for a free Netgear R7000. Feature-wise, it was downgraded as the Merline firmware for the Asus had the best feature set that a home user or a SOHO could ask for without compromising the wifi performance. Reception and speed-wise, this R7000, with the...

I've asked but FlowTT (is the ISP btw) have a separate VLAN that gives free wifi to all their customers wherever FlowTT routers are and so they won't turn off the radio. A previous modem allowed me to turn off the wifi radio but it didn't make much difference if any at all. Every time I update...

The Asus is on the least populated channel (9) and the routers are in the location where the ISP terminated the line. There is little to be done to fix that right now. As originally mentioned, the Arris Wifi is locked ON, Channel Auto (Wifi analyser app says it's 6). That's how the ISP rolled...

The house is not currently wired with any network cable. Probably won't be till my country comes out of lockdown. So the only way to link them is with a short network cable.

I have an ISP provided Arris TG1672G router+modem with the wifi locked ON and an Asus RT-AC56U in AP mode (I really hate this router but that's another story) next to each other trying and failing badly to cover inside and outside of a 2 story concrete and steel house taking up over 2/3 of a 50'...

Thanks for the input thus far. I've added the ZyXEL to cart. Just waiting for any last words.

My sister's home came pre-wired with cat5e and has 28 outlets distributed through out the house terminated to rj45 in a 2'x4'x4" cabinet. All the coaxial cable also ends up there, with an Arris modem for internet and a separate Arris router for a phone line for the security system, so space is...

So I'm guess I might need 4 ASUS RT-N12D1. 1 acting as a router, 1 at opposite ends of the house and 1 in the porch to cover the backyard, to form something looking like a "T".

I saw you mention in another thread that more than a router can't cover 4800 sqft. I'm trying to cover 10000 (100ft x 100ft) with 50ft x 100ft being an uncovered back yard.

Yes, I've read the reviews and used the ranker but none of them have a durability rating, hence the reason I'm asking for advice based on I'd love it if a $50 router would work. ddwrt did extend the life of an old WRT310N Linksys I had. It had a periodic reboot function that was set for...

I've had bad luck with routers, having to replace them every 1-2 years and Linksys has been the worst of the brands. That said, I'm looking for a reliable wifi router. One that will last more than 3 years (hopefully more), NOT have to reboot frequently (hopefully never) and not drop the...