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Got it - thanks for clarifying! So it seems like GW1 would be good for a WiFi printer where the main LAN devices would need to access the GW1-connected printer, but any connection requests from the printer to the main LAN would be blocked. And because of firewall rules, GW2 and GW3 are no worse...

Thanks so much for helping out! Yeah I'm strongly considering moving to 386.7_2 until Merlin can circumvent the NVRAM issues, hopefully in 386.11. WAN remote access was disabled, SSH access was only enabled via LAN (with port changed), and admin access was HTTPS only. The router admin page was...

Indeed as per my original post, the Merlin Guest network has the same SSID as the old router's Guest network. The new Merlin WLAN networks have different SSIDs from the Merlin Guest network.

Hi all, First of all apologies in advance for what might be an amateurish or potentially annoying post. I swear there's only 2 voices in my head ;) Here's the backstory: I replaced an old AC router in a guest house with my RT-AC66U B1 running Merlin (had not been used since 2021). I was...

Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your helpful responses, and my apologies for the delayed response; things began to get hectic with work and I had to spend all of Memorial Day Weekend visiting family. I'd like to provide some updates after toying around with my router for a bit. In short, the...

Just changed the name of the network drive and rebooted the router; the issue remains

Peculiar update: I tried to access the router using my work laptop, and after around 15 times of various time periods/sleep-wake cycles in between, I was prompted to enter my username and password and am able to successfully access the files on my external hard drive through my router. I changed...

Yup, there were many folders created on the external hard drive already. When trying to access the router via its IP address in Windows Explorer, I'm returned with the same error message. I've also set the USB3 port to USB2 operation with no change.

Certainly, I've attached the output files. I'm indeed running Windows 10 and SMB v1 client support was already enabled. Thanks for the prompt reply! (Edit: the post was too messy so I've attached the outputs as files instead; apologies for the prior huge wall of text)

Hello, Thanks to the excellent advice I received on the SNB Forums, I purchased an RT-AC66U_B1 and have been very happy with it. I received it two days ago and the first thing I did was flash the latest Merlin release. Currently I'm trying to set up network drive access via Samba, and I'm...

Hahaha, I definitely wasn't serious about actually doing that! But I really appreciate that you considered the possibility that someone might take the suggestion to heart and try it with their own setup, much to their chagrin. The router gods are currently smiling upon you for making sure it...

Noted - I'll know what to look for when it gets to the point where I want to chuck my router against the wall! I find the image of a wall-mounted router with a USB hard drive hanging for dear life from the router's USB port hilarious. Now I'm kind of tempted to wall mount my AC66U_B1 and just...

Also can we appreciate just how painfully ironic it is that ASUS's naming convention is so terrible that they mislabeled the RT-AC86U as the RT-AC68U on their own store?

@Trip - Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah I've narrowed my choice to the AC66U_B1 running Merlin, which seems to be a tried and true solution. I'd consider myself somewhat technically inclined, but not inclined enough to understand what SQM QoS and bufferbloat are, hah. I'll keep the Qualcomm...

Great - thanks for the information! This is all very helpful.