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    why no good branded routers with Optical input ?

    recently i had FTTH and realised ISP's xPON ONU/T are not as good.. i was so much confident that in today's world of FTTH, well known branded routers like Asus, DLink, Netgear etc i was confident they must be having routers which now takes Optical also.. G-EPON is now a well known standard...
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    dual wan router suggestions

    ( please forgive me if this is not the right forum to ask ) my current AC68U Wan port, Lan 1 and 2, and WiFi stopped working :( need to buy one dual Wan router budget around ~100-150 $s which one would you suggest ? Sent from my Redmi Note 5 Pro using Tapatalk
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    " _dwb " suffix compulsory for wifi back haul SSID ?

    i read somewhere that it's a RULE that wifi back haul SSID must be same as SmartConnect SSID followed by _dwb for example as per this if the SSID is abcd then back haul SSID must be abcd_dwb ? is this true ? we should not have any other SSID name for back haul ? Sent from my Redmi Note 5 Pro...
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    Happy birthday to us

    Happy Birthday Merlin ! You are a legend for many of us ! see ? i am on 384.16 already !!!! :) I always wondered how you manage your "personal world" and this - for i believe you are living somewhere in the world, have a job / consultancy, managing all that and working on these FWs for...
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    AC5300 - 2.4 G WiFi dropping

    emboldened, did couple of more things.. wanted to understand whether it is smart connect and AI-MESH which was causing the problem and if not wanted to have them on.. hence created smart connect and AI-MESH again.. also made MU-MIMO on.. so below are the effective settings which were...
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    AC5300 - 2.4 G WiFi dropping

    thanks Colin and Sheikh !!! i assigned fixed channel, selected 20MHz, turned off IGMP snooping, disabled tx bursting, disabled multi mimo, disabled universal beam forming, stopped smart connect, provided separate ssid to each band and assigned specific devices to specific band through Mac...
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    AC5300 - 2.4 G WiFi dropping

    I need help. I am sure this question must have been asked, but please forgive me to ask my specific instance.. AC5300 on 384.15 with full reset My wife's WiFi was dropping every now and then (i think even prior to 384.15).. Curious i loaded a WiFi Analyzer and below is what i see...
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    too many WLCEVENTD Assoc Disassoc ReAssoc messages

    i did not have mesh before and have it now but yes i also have tons of these WLCEVNTD messages in both cases before and after.. Sent from my Redmi Note 5 Pro using Tapatalk
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    too many WLCEVENTD Assoc Disassoc ReAssoc messages

    thanks sanna for the feedback.. i am networking illiterate person hence everyone please forgive me if i am saying something stupid.. with the state of these routers and WiFi technologies we are in at the point in time, is it a norm that these technologies have not matured yet to the level...
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    too many WLCEVENTD Assoc Disassoc ReAssoc messages

    AC5300 latest FW 384.13 friends i get too many below type of messages in my log for various Mac ids : Sep 17 20:08:11 WLCEVENTD: eth1: Disassoc <<mac 1>> Sep 17 20:12:18 WLCEVENTD: eth1: ReAssoc <<mac 1>> Sep 17 20:12:18 kernel: br0: received packet on vlan1 with own address as source...
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    smart connect - AC5300 AiMesh with AC68U

    Last weekend i could successfully AiMesh my main AC5300 with AC68U.. very happy about this :) just one thing i could not understand about this setup my AC5300 came in Dual band smart connect and not in Tri band smart connect (SC).. is this normal ? is this because AC68U is not Tri band...
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    why does Trend Micro need to collect data for Adaptive QOS?

    in my opinion there is nothing wrong in this question - these forums are for understanding / learning about what and how and why etc.. and these forums have been immensely useful through the help and support of forum colleagues.. but i think this " I really don't like Asus as a company. " i...
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    RT-AC5300 : combine two Internet connections ?

    i have two 50 mbps Internet connections configured in dual wan fail over mode.. it is working as expected in fail over mode.. is there any way i can combine these two connections and get one pipe of 100 mbps ? any kind of hardware which can take these two as input and output of that i can...
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    RT-AC68U - 16 mbps USB3 write speed - is that normal ?

    Hi, I have Seagate powered USB3 HDD connected to USB 3 port of my RT-AC68U.. When I copy files from my desktop to this HDD, it is very slow at around 16 mbps.. is this normal speed? or else what needs to be done to increase this speed? Please let me know.. -KK
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    RT-AC68U - how to extend wifi reach to other rooms

    Hi, I have RT-AC68U.. I want to increase its wifi reach to other rooms.. Which wifi extender you will recommend for RT-AC68U? thanks for the responses..
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