Recent content by HTBruceM

I am only marginally familiar with VPNs, so consider that caveat to anything that follows :) What do you accomplish by running a VPN client on Windows IN ADDITION to the VPN running on the router? I would assume that your Windows client is encrypting it's network activity, and nothing on your...

Maybe load an earlier Merlin FW or stock ASUS FW?

Still no issues after another week of usage.

Update: I've been on the stock ASUS FW (3.0.0.4.386_45898-gfa90458) now for the past 4 days, using my ISP's DNS servers, DOT disabled, router acting as local LAN DNS server (no DNS servers specified in the LAN section). Everything working nicely. I feel like the issue has something to do with...

Wade, can you please elaborate on your reasoning here? Seems to me that for a workload like website browsing, a non-optimized MTU value would have only a VERY minor performance impact. I cannot imagine how it would cause certain websites to either not load at all, or take MINUTES to load. Not...

There seems to be nothing quite like DNS issues... they're so random and transitory. I hate DNS issues. In the Aug/Sep timeframe I updated my pair of RT-AX86u AiMesh machines to 386_3_2 firmware (coming from 386_3). At that time I also enabled DNS Encryption in the router - using DNS-over-TLS...

Back on topic.... Installed the 386.3 last week and it has been rock solid. Nice work Eric.

I once had a Sony Blu-Ray player and discovered that is used a hard-coded DNS address for its FW update process. At that time I was using an EdgeRouter-X with a rule to drop any DNS that weren't using my selected DNS server. As a result, that Blu-Ray player would NEVER update its firmware...

One thing about your home construction - concrete walls/floors. That means you will have more extreme signal loss through those walls/floors than a typical wood frame home. So you will probably require more APs than other folks with more traditional wood framing. Line of sight is going to be...

Did you enable any of the Asus AIProtection features for safe browsing and parental controls? Those features might give you some protection, since you're disconnecting your Disney Circle device.

Did you notice that Disney Circle Plus has an FAQ site? On that site there is a listing of "compatible" routers. It says you may have to enable "Compatibility Mode" in the Disney device if your router is not on their compatible list. When you turn on "compatibility mode", your devices are going...

I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. Hmmm... THREE different routers ALL exhibit the exact same behavior, and Asus couldn't find anything wrong with one of them. What are the odds of the exact same hardware failure occurring on all 3 routers? I think astronomical. So it seems like it HAS to be...

Well technically the guest network provides similar functionality to a VLAN but it's not really equivalent to true a 802.11Q standard VLAN. And remember that the guest network is WiFi only - so you can't connect an ethernet device to it without using a bridge. 99% of the IoT devices use very...

This would be a bug, right? I wonder if Asus has a bug report on it.

I agree with L&LD. IMO, the separate router does provide more robust isolation between the IoT devices and your main network. You would have completely separated networks, as opposed to the Guest Network where your isolation comes from some firewall rules. But is the overall benefit of a...