Recent content by jbaugh

Thanks for the info. I'm going to give wifiman a try and see what I come up with.

Tonight I noticed a strange entry in the list of clients on my Asus router. I've never seen this before and I'm worried if it is a security risk. The client's name is listed as "Espressif Inc". The only thing I've done differently recently is to enable the AiProtection feature on my router...

Yes, I see the radio button for Adaptive QoS. I have tried setting up QoS with that button selected and with the Traditional QoS button selected. Repeated testing of bufferbloat on dslreports.com with QoS DISABLED shows a consistent score of "F". When I enable QoS, select Adaptive QoS, and...

I appreciate all of the responses my inquiry has generated. Unfortunately for me the discussion in this thread tends to be above my technological level. But I would like to report on my efforts thus far to mitigate bufferbloat. First I updated to the newest version of Asuswrt-Merlin...

Thanks for your reply. Prior to updating to this router my previous two routers ran Tomato firmware. So this is a Thanks, This is a useful bit of information if I do make the decision to flash a different firmware. John

Thanks, I have tried to set the QoS as you have suggested. But something is not working. I've toggled on the "Enable QoS button and selected "Adaptive QoS". My bandwidth is about 120 down/12 up. I've set the "upload Bandwidth" to 9 and the "Download Bandwidth" to 90 and hit "Apply". When I...

I have an Asus RT-AC68U router currently running Asuswrt-Merlin FW 378.56_2. I'm interested in converting to the OpenWrt firmware since it apparently has features that allow some mitigation of the buffer bloat problem I'm experiencing. I'm pretty new to this issue of flashing router firmware...