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It’s not the reminiscing, it’s how full featured my Asus router was compared to this modern modem/router, I can barely control a thing with it.

That all made perfect sense, thanks for explaining it to me. My carrier is Bell Canada and I see that people refer to the modem as the Giga Hub HH4000. I’m going to do checks on the range of the wifi, I had always wanted to go with the Asus AiMesh so that I could have range for the backyard...

I am so used to all the features and control in an Asus router, they carrier Bell provides this awful app called Bell wifi to control the provided Sagecom, I can’t lose all the bells and whistles of the Asus and the related app and router interface provides, not to mention Aimesh.

I probably read the same thing today, isn’t there an issue with double NAT though? I’m not even sure what is the best way to enable the bridge, is see there is more than one and I think there is a way to not have double NAT but not entirely sure.

Wow, thanks for taking such a deep dive in to it. So I definitely see the Sagemcom support wifi6, does the AC86 as well? Is the AC86 even enough to take full advantage of my 1.5 Gigabit internet, should I be upgrading to something newer. I’m still using my old AC68 and I never even unboxed my...

My local carrier gave me one of these dual modem/routers like they normally do, the Sagecom Giga Hub FAST 5689E. Previously I always just had my provider modem in bridge mode and I just use my ASUS AC68. Is the AC68 capable of getting the full output from this 1.5 Gigabit connection as...

I figured it would be easier to just do an accept only by Mac filtering, but that’s going to cause me more grief by the family, I’m assuming there has to be a way to block by decide name since it’s a field that I can see on my device listing.

At least I could turn it on by demand in that case, and I wish they actually used it for school! This is really to enforce some sleep time.

looking for a parental control here. Child has school device and kid is smart enough and school device security is lax enough that they can change the MAC address, so any wifi blocking or Mac filtering achieves little. I’ve noticed the device name remains constant, is there a way to filter by...

My kid is pretty smart and although parental controls prevent him from installing a VPN app on his iPad, he enter in VPN credentials directly from the iPad native VPN settings. The thing is, when he’s connected to the VPN I’m not even aware as his device will not show up in the device list when...

If there is no built in ad blocker, is there one that is easy and simple to setup from the router?

Okay thank you, so I’m not crazy! I never had to do this in the past, and then I started doubting myself if it was always like this, thanks for confirming it’s due to an Apple change.

So I have DNS filtering so I can prevent kids and guests from surfing x-rated sites. When I use the bypass filtering so that my wireless device can bypass filtering on this same page, I didn’t realize at first but I needed to bypass both my Mac addresses (2.4 & 5) in two separate entries. Is...

Oh thank you, so AC86 is my best bet then I guess for high speed VPN, does Merlin fully support it and is the Merlin build as stable as the AC68?

I live my AC68 with Merlin firmware, it’s rock solid but the VPN speeds are capped at like 25Mbit, is the AC88 the right choice if I want to max out my VPN speed, does Merlin support it? And what’s the realistic max speed for VPN it can do? Are there better options? Thanks