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    Broadcom BCM6756 VS Mediatek filogic830 which CPU router is better?

    That's what reviews are for.
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    Broadcom BCM6756 VS Mediatek filogic830 which CPU router is better?

    Performance of the Wifi radios, for starter.
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    [Youtube] Video from Dave Plummer on online privacy, mainly DNS

    The same question applies to pretty much any service. - Who do you trust most for hosting your emails: Google, Microsoft, Proton or your ISP? - Who do you trust most for securing your PC: Eset, Trend Micro or Microsoft? - Who do you trust most for providing your reliable Internet access...
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    [Youtube] Video from Dave Plummer on online privacy, mainly DNS

    Requires web server support, and more complex to setup. Also I don't think the standard has been finalized yet, it's still at draft stage. EDIT: yep, still a draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/25/
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    [Youtube] Video from Dave Plummer on online privacy, mainly DNS

    He does tend to shoot info at a fairly high pace, probably in part because he relies heavily on reading his text rather than just having a more natural talking presentation. But he usually does a good job at distilling it to the essential, and giving simple explanations to some of the more...
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    How to set 10MB half duplex on a LAN port for RT-BE86U

    Try putting a cheap 5 ports network switch between the router and the device. It might better handle the handshake of that antique device
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    DNS Providers - Who to trust?

    Recent video doing a great job at explaining how to protect your privacy, covering topics like DNS, SNI and VPN providers. https://www.snbforums.com/threads/youtube-video-from-dave-plummer-on-online-privacy-mainly-dns.95662/
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    [Youtube] Video from Dave Plummer on online privacy, mainly DNS

    Dave Plummer (former Microsoft engineer who worked on components such as the original Task Manager) posted a very good video talking about online privacy, mostly on how to secure your privacy at the DNS level. It's one of the best video I have seen on the topic, where he even explains things...
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    SFP+ Port IPTV Support on RT-BE88U – Will it be integrated into Merlin?

    It will be integrated whenever I merge an Asus GPL that has the feature implemented.
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    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 3004.388.9 is now available

    That's because of how Wireguard works. Wireguard is a connection-less tunnel, meaning that if you close a client, the server has no way of knowing that you did that. The server will keep reporting all peers it has ever seen. All it can do is send KeepAlive packets, and report whether it...
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    DNS Providers - Who to trust?

    I don't know the latest numbers, but it's indeed quite a small percentage unfortunately. Even a major tech giant domain such as google.com is not DNSSEC-signed. merlin@ubuntu-dev:~$ dig +dnssec google.com @192.168.10.1 ; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.20.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> +dnssec google.com...
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    Merlin 3004_388.10_alpha1 (now 3004_388.10_alpha2 for most devices)

    Asus isn't being late here. Look at the date of my post about Gnuton's GPL. He hadn't asked for it earlier because he didn't have time to work on his project until recently. Asus sent him not that long after he asked for it. It's a different version than what I last merged, so Gnuton will...
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    DNS Providers - Who to trust?

    Why bother with the infrastructure required to run a recursive resolver that can properly handle 50,000 customers (with both the capacity and the redundancy) if you can offload that to a third party. It makes sense to me, at least for home users.
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    DNS Providers - Who to trust?

    Whoever runs the nameservers. Can be Cloudflare (which I use with asuswrt-merlin.net for example), can be a cPanel where you host your website, or can be a bind9 server that you host in a VPS. The resolution allows them to get your IP even if you don't actively connect to a web service at that...
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    DNS Providers - Who to trust?

    These articles need to address the various downsides of doing what they suggest, because there are some. If suddenly your Steam downloads get slower or you start getting streaming buffering, that's the kind of potential issues that can happen if you start using a random third party DNS, ending...
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