Recent content by JoeHz

I would call it a migration to a supported configuration rather than a true upgrade, but sure, why not. The DS912+ was released in 2012 or so. It's stuck on DSM6. Both beasts target roughly the same market (4 drive bays). Now you'd have the choice between the 423 and 923 but of the two, I'd...

For most people, yes. When it comes to home networking, I have NEVER ever been most people. I was always pushing the limits of high end consumer gear to the point I ran Netware 3.12 in my apartment in the 90s. When we bought our home (still pre-wifi), the very first thing we did was have the...

One of the things I found was that I was demanding a bit too much in the way of features of my old RT-AC86U for the amount of memory it had on board (it could do all of the things, just only for a while until someone's stray memory leak ate it all). So yeah, I found that problem too, but there...

Gotta be honest here, I was thrilled with Asus and AiMesh until the day I wasn't. What killed it for me was an older AC device I relegated into AIMesh duties stripped off VLAN identifiers from the packets it was passing on. This is an unacceptable failure mode for any product. Unmanaged...

GNP will eventually work quite well I think. Just the new features GNP offer end with at router or mesh node that is running 3006. Older Asus models will limit you by the number of networks they can share, and (if you see my experience in a recent thread) will also try, but silently fail to...

The DreamMachine SE was on order before you posted that, but thank you for trying to help.

I know I won't be pushing Ubiquiti to the edge of its featuresets. They have customers doing far more complicated stuff than what I would be doing. Conversely, anyone who is using AsusWRT_Merlin is, by definition, doing things with their Asus routers that Asus is okay with them doing, provided...

Just dirty upgraded and I still have issues with DNSDirector (or not using DNSDirector) where my guest networks have to have their DNS Servers explicitly listed or they cannot resolve names. It's worth mentioning that my DNS is defined by running the NextDNS.io CLI, so this might be their bug...

Isn't everything? You can not like it all you want, but you can't redefine the term. NAS == Network Attached Storage.

In my case, I can. Mesh is a nice-to-have feature for me, but if I have to go AP only to get my VLAN functionality working, I will. If this means I have to buy new product that supports VLAN, I'll do that too. But under no circumstances would I go back to the manufacturer that forced that...

Of Ubiquiti products to soon-to-be former Asus Customers? Why yes. Yes, it does. I am on record that the RMerlin firmware is the only reason I have any loyalty to Asus products. It provides the functionality I want. Planned Obsolescence as a way to sell more product is not a very good...

I can buy that it's not recommended bc there are better ways to do this, but this is literally the definition of a NAS (Network Attached Storage).

What router do you have? Many have a USB attachment on them. My first baby NAS was an old hard drive put into an enclosure and attached it to my Asus RT-AC86U. The router itself made it available over SMB to windows devices. Doesn't get that much simpler than that, but it did use memory on the...

To be precise, I've never installed YazFi anywhere. I was simply hoping it would fix this problem if put on the 3004 firmware router/aimesh node. What I observed was that the smart plug had no issues connecting with strong signal strength to the iot network wherever it was, but when connected...

We just took the plunge on home automation with some Amazon Echo devices and KASA smart plugs. 1) So I went and created an IoT network in GuestNetworkPro with its own VLAN ID and subnet and discovered a hiccup. The plugs all worked fine when they were connected to the main router (An...