Recent content by Never Ready Eddie

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated! I'll keep an eye on the thread in case anything changes or we get new information.

Thanks guys. So after following the above instructions I got the same looking output as yours: ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U 386.5_0 Wed Mar 2 16:35:59 UTC 2022 XXXXXX@RT-AC68U-8920:/tmp/home/root# ps w | grep "ktest" | grep -v grep XXXXXX@RT-AC68U-8920:/tmp/home/root# iptables -vnL OUTPUT | grep...

So, I'm fairly techy but Windows based so I struggle to understand anything Linux or command line stuff on how to talk to the router and check if its infected. I've seen several commands shared in this thread but don't know which one to use or more importantly, how to use them. Would someone...

You make a fair point in that if I could have the USB HDD running reliably on the Shield itself, that would be the best option from an access and performance perspective. It was also slower to copy files too over my network when mounted on the Shield but I will try it again. Perhaps I gave up...

Yes I am aware of the power down option and have it set to off. I used to use it when it was a dumb DLNA server before I started using PLEX but as you say, I disabled it to try and speed things up. No real difference seen though. Its USB powered but as I said, accessing and playing from it using...

Sorry for my late reply. 1. Firstly I can select SMB with a drop down menu thanks to my Merlin firmware. 2. I wont spend another £200+ on a NAS to solve a small issue as plenty of people complain about their performance issues too so its seems a waste of money. The ASUS router attached HDD...

My setup is an NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019) running a PLEX server with the media stored on a hard drive plugged into my Asus RT-AC68U (Merlin Firmware 384.17) acting as a NAS. I moved the USB drive from the Shield as it would loose access to the plugged in HDD for some reason. Having it on the...

I have installed a new 4TB WD usb hard drive on the USB3 port of my AC68U but the health scan returns errors. I have chkdsk scanned in Windows with no errors. Log below ntfsck 3014.5.21 Checking NTFS Superblock ... Device name : /dev/sda1 NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size ...