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"The kids" will eventually learn to tether their phones and bypass the entire network. <grin> Or use location-based bypass techniques such as... go to my friend's howse wit open netz.

Thank you for sending me down a rabbit hole researching DoH. :)

Sounds like you put the pihole between your home router and the ISP router. I meant put a switch there, plug all three devices into that switch. That's the "DMZ". You're not technically "on the Internet", but it's outside your home network. The ISP router is your firewall to protect the pi...

I'm wingin' it here, so don't take this as the absolute truth: I think you need to put your pihole DNS server on the WAN side of your router... so make yourself a little DMZ there between your home router and your ISP's router... and point the router's DNS server settings at that device. You...

I actually did come to the same conclusion: nvram was low and I've been there before. I took the shortcut: factory reset + restore config and it seems to have helped. Now I have some weird intermittent latency that wasn't there before. I know I'm going to have to bite the bullet and do as you...

I rebooted it again and got more weird results. First, when I rebooted it, the management interface partially loaded to the screenshot attached. After the router had finished booting, I thought it was working again, as the page nearly loaded completely, but no: it still spins and buttons don't...

I just upgraded my long-running AC1900 using the AC68U 386.3_2 code (Aug 6 21:47:27 2021). The router "works", but the web access doesn't work anymore. For several minutes, I got nothing but timeouts (failed to connect). Then as I came here to look for help and time passed, I refreshed and got a...

Black electricians' tape. The Car Talk solution.

I read more about YazFi and it looked to be just what I needed to add functionality to the guest networks. Simplified the entire operation. I was even able to continue to use the AiMesh to extend the network upstairs AND the switch ports on the remote router are on the primary network, just like...

Well, I have three routers: AC1900P, RT-AC68U, and RT-N66U. I will try your & @CaptainSTX's suggestions. I did make a discovery in my foibles. The N66U, configured on a different network, can be plugged into either the primary router or the AiMesh remote. In both cases, I have access to the...

No, but I started reading that and it looks interesting. Nice weekend project, maybe. Thanks for the tip; I'll be reading more.

I tried that, but the VPN problem remains: the guest network still uses the VPN and I don't want that since some IoT things are VPN-averse. That's also why I wanted the guest network on the IoT network: sometimes guests like to watch Hulu or what have you and those lot most certainly are VPN...

ok - thanks. Yes, the IoT router WAN is plugged into a LAN port on the primary (actually a LAN port on the AiMesh remote, but it works.) Where to put the rules might make a difference, eh? I think I tried CIDR notation and it barked back at me, but I'll give it another go. Might have been some...

I set up a separate router for my IoT devices. It runs on the 192.168.8.0 network and my main network is 192.168.2.0. I'm trying to firewall it off from my main network, but apparently no luck. I tried the blacklisting in the firewall section of the main router, but that did nothing. Here's...

This was odd. Maybe someone can explain why this happens. I have two VPN clients configured: a primary in use and a secondary that's turned off. (I figure I can more easily switch to the secondary if the primary fails for some reason. I've had to do this a couple of times when the primary...