Recent content by Richard Cooke

Hah! When I was handling the router I must have pressed the WiFi kill switch on the front. I honestly had forgoten it even had that feature! I had to press it for over 3 seconds to restore it, so I must have been holding the router up to get at the cables or something, with a finger on the...

Acanac.com A licensed reseller in Canada, they resell everybody else! They don't allow access to the "ISP" side of the X50. I can only see the PPOE account. It makes no mentioned of the VLAN settings, nor the MAC of the WAN jack. Although, as somebody else mentioned, it only has 3 jacks...

Well that's interesting. Tomorrow I will try this again. As I said in the first post, the first test I had no WiFi's at all. I have 3 configured: - 2.4Ghz - 5Ghz - 2.4Ghz Public (no password) for guests and neighbors whose own system is down. All have different SSIDs. Not a single one was...

And thank you for your prompt respone and continued input. I gretely apprecaite it!

I will go and widen my search but what I need is how to set this in this router with this firmware - or Stock firmware. When I search assus-merlin+AC87U+VLAN I mostly find posts on this site, mostly in this group. But as I said, they are all doing exotic things. I have yet to see anything...

My ISP will only support their X50 toy. If I want to use my own hardware, they will happily tell me the specs, but I am on my own.

I was happy with my RT-AC87U using Merlin! Everything seemed to work fine, and the WiFi range was impressive. Then my ISP offered me optical service at 500 up and 500 down for the same price I was paying for VHDSL 50/25! So I jumped at that! They installed a Nokia optical modem. And sent me...