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Here's a basic question. I have two ASUS routers: my main router is an RT-AX86U and my remote router is an RT-AC66U running in repeater mode. If a device (here, a Philips Hue bridge) is connected (via Ethernet) to the main router, shouldn't it be visible to a smartphone connected (via Wi-Fi) to...

That's what I did when the power switch old RT-AC66U died, but ASUS wants to charge me a service fee to release the old DDNS name because it's tied to my old (>5 years) router, which is out of warranty. What a ripoff!

I'm running 378.56_0 and am trying to assign manual IP addresses after resetting my router to defaults. My problem: after adding some manual IPs in the LAN > DHCP Server tab, when I click the Apply button, the login popup reappears and, after logging in, I see that my changes were not saved. I...

Hey, it worked! Thanks. (I was previously accessing the router admin UI by entering "router" in my browser -- I have "router" mapped to 192.168.1.1 in my hosts file.) Why would accessing through the IP address successfully change the admin password, but accessing through the host name fail?

My RT-AC66U had stopped allowing my normal logon. (A second RT-AC66U in Bridge mode also "forgot" my normal logon. This post only concerns my main router.) Thinking I might have been hacked, I used the default admin/admin, which was successful, flashed 378.56 and reset to factory default. I now...