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Yes - I did expect everything to work. I did not expect a DNS total failure. What do you mean by "manual setup" - in my system the only lengthy setup is DHCP manual assignment. Yes - I am spoiled by decades of Merlin's wonderful work. It helps to know that you-all did not have any problems - I...

RT-AX86uPRO from v.3004.388.8_4 to 3006.102.4_0 result - every device on LAN has connectivity. The router alone has access to the internet. I did not have: a guest network, wireless scheduler, DNS director. Figured it still must be a DNS problem. Played with DNS settings that are now...

how do you do 2.5G connection on RT-AX88U? Please a schematic pic would be helpful. Thanks.

Please explain how connections are made between WiFi, 8x LAN ethernet ports and WAN inside the 88u. And how does it compare to connection going thru a single ether wire to a 8x switch. If the switch connects 8x high traffic devices (potentially 1Gb/s each) how do they go thru the single wire...

I think you should reconsider. SMART CONNECT=MESH. How can one be without MESH is beyond me. I jumped on ASUS AiMESH from day one. It had hick-up - but it is better than most Mesh systems on the market and does not require me to buy new routers. Just update your firmware and go with the best...

Confusion: Smart Connect OFF = no MESH? But I do want the MESH so Smart Connect must be ON. The Smart Connect screen in Network Tools therefore regulates only MESH? Because of the widespread confusion related to metric of dB, please explain what is the practical difference between -50dB and...

The problem is in going thru ALL devices that need the network name and changing their settings - a lot of hassle on a larger setup. change <NAME> to <NAME_nomap_optout> takes care of Google & Microsoft, but as any optout scheme - it is based on goodwill and does not prevent anything - except...

@RMerlin To protect against geo-location privacy the MAC randomization becomes necessary. Can something be done? The Google's opt-out from geo-location of WiFi routers is to add <_nomap> to routers <name>. But this requires all clients to change the name of AP they connect to. Is there a way of...

That would be super - but not the case when there is no video format of any sort involved. The problem is that the window or the screen cannot be cast; no jpg, no html no nothing.

My biggest problem with the NAS (no RAID) is that when NAS hardware fails I cannot remove the drive and connect it directly to a Windows-based anything and read the files. I am talking about having access to data using different hardware than the one that recorder it. The similar problem is with...

Suddenly Chromecast stopped working which I noticed after the last 384.17 Merlin update. It affects Chromecast3 and FireTV dongles. Nothing helps. They show up as "available" or "source not supported" on two different win10 and win10pro laptops randomly. Or suddenly they work, to stop next time...

http://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/test-builds for RT-AC88u the trx file is not in ZIP. Intentional?

did that - does not work on rt-ac88u at all. Simply does nothing.

I was on MERLIN's firmware 15. For whatever reason, I flashed to the newest ASUS original. Then I saw Merlin's 16 and wanted to switch - and this was the end. The message came up that the Merlin's firmware I tried to flash is not authirized. Well I though to flash to a lower ASUS original - it...