Recent content by Josh Schneider

I just read one of your discussions in another thread. I have a lot to learn and consider (or not, depending on how much effort I'm going to put into this). One thing's for sure is that I'm probably not going to create an optimal system. My house dates to 1924 and there are limits as to where I...

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to networking, so I also don't really know what "true mesh" means, other than non-technically, that it should allow my devices to seamlessly transition from one node to another. And, on that count, my system's never really lived up to the promise. I'm sure there...

Currently, this is beyond my comprehension / technical ability, but I'll keep reading. I did see a mention of mesh in VPN Wireguard and VPN tinc documentation. I could, of course, put extra routers in AP mode, but not the same. The whole reason I'm even thinking about it is that Merlin's...

To be sure, there's no mesh functionality at all with FT, correct?

If I were to switch from Merlin to FT for my RT-AC68P with an RT-AC66U B1 and an RT-AC1750 B1 -- which I'm pretty sure are almost identical, and run the same firmware -- as AiMesh units, I assume I'd have to lose AiMesh. Would I pretty much have to start over from scratch to make the switch?

I just stumbled upon this old thread and have to say, I think the meaning of "Offtime" is definitely the time that the device should be blocked from Internet access. The difficulty I still have is figuring out how to span days, or maybe what the 24th hour is as compared with the 00th hour. I'm...

Hello, and thanks for this tool. I successfully installed it, but after running, I lost and had to recreate my static assignments. Now it looks like I have duplicate entries, because nvram still has dhcp_clientlist. Should I just clear that (set it to "")? Thank you

Sorry to necro-post, but seems relevant to this discussion. I have an AIMesh setup with two mesh nodes and my main router in my basement. I have an SSD attached to one mesh node and an HDD attached to the other. From what I've read, I can only control things like Enable HDD Hibernation from the...

Thanks @Silly Rabbit, this worked perfectly for me using ethernet backhaul and also the Asus Router Android app. I stood by the AiMesh node while it restarted from a reset, after updating to that beta firmware. I thought the ethernet icon (WAN port) just wasn't going to change from red to...

I think I'd just forgotten how to get to the point where I could configure one of my other routers as an AIMesh node. Finally found it and am trying to set that all back up now.

Thanks. I bit the bullet and reset the router anyway. I had backed up the config recently, so it was pretty painless. OTOH, now I lost my previously configured AIMesh node, and I can't seem to reconfigure it as easily as I did once before.

In my main router, I "accidentally" chose to enable access restrictions (Remote Access Config) to only one AP (I have 3 routers, the main and 2 APs). Now I can't access my main router's UI, which previously was reachable at 192.168.1.1 (with HTTPS on 8443). I also cannot SSH to this router now...

I actually had gotten a hold of the mass production tool for the controller, but frankly, didn't want to figure out how to use it and risk really destroying the drive. Oddly, after I managed to finally wipe the partitions and MBR, all of the previously reported block-level errors disappeared...

Well, after that update I did finally manage to use an NVME tool to completely wipe the disk. It now cannot be initialized or partitioned (again, CRC errors). I guess that's as good as I can get to send it in for replacement.

Following up on this. I managed to get what was salvageable off the drive, and also now have it installed directly in a laptop and am running a WinPE set of tools from a USB stick. The drive seems to be in a completely unusable state. I've tried all commands from diskpart, including clear...