Recent content by nav2004

After having just returned the ASUS RT-AC86U I am not considering the TPLink Archer C2300.

Have you guys not have had wireless signal drop randomly on the 86U ? I had this and I returned it in yesterday after having owned it for a week. So now I am on the lookout for a new router but just wondering if I got a bad piece and if I should give 86U another chance given that it is on sale...

Well my ownership of this Router was short lived. Have had it for just over a week and family was reporting that Wifi kept disconnecting few times in a day. Then on Thu I experienced it myself as I was working from home and using VPN to connect to my work. I looked briefly through Router log and...

Thank you so much @ColinTaylor I enabled Samba share with enable guest account and can now access the root folder of both HDDs and map them to a network drive. As this is all within the home network, I am fine if every device on this wifi can access these. Also, initialized openVPN and was...

Oh, I am curious how to set this OpenVPN up. If there any posts in the forums, when you get a chance, I would love to read up on that and enable it in the router. I have only used VPN for accessing my work network, so not sure what it does in the Home environment. I am assuming, it let you...

Thank you @ColinTaylor for the explanation. I really would have wanted to see all files/folders under Label 1 for instance in your example. Now if I have 5-6 folders in my root, it will not be ideal to map a drive letter to each. An alternative might be for me re-structure the folders and...

I don't have allow guest login enabled under "Network place (Samba) Share/Cloud disk I tried what you mentioned on my Windows 8.1 laptop using the value in Device Name listed under the Samba Share screen, which was RT-AC86U-E468 I can change it, but have left it at that for now. It kind of...

I just used the AiDisk wizard and Samba was also turned on by it. But you cannot access the router if you type \\RT-AC86U-E468 That might be because Windows 10 has disabled the SMB1 Protocol because it is obsolete and unsafe. It says your system requires SMB2 or higher.

Hi everyone, Just purchased and set this router up. I have two HDDs plugged into the 2 USB Ports. I am trying to now map a drive letter to access each of these from all the computers in home. I am unable access the drives at the address it shows under AiDisk ftp://192.168.50.1/ I have...

New to the forum and just purchase the RT-AC86U Can anyone explain about this Merlin firmware ? Have you guys already removed ASUS firmware and flashed it with Merlin ? Or is the ASUSWRT firmware based on Merlin which is why Merlin is used often in the forums. What would it do to warranty if you...