Recent content by Rolo

Yes, still buggy. I still have to have all the bells and whistles disabled for it to not run itself aground every few weeks. I still have to power-cycle it monthly to keep it working correctly. The big issue with it is its 64-bit architecture: nobody is developing custom firmware for it. Asus...

AFAICT, AI protection updates cause the router to freeze after a few weeks, requiring a power-cycle. Additionally, each of the three switches below it have to be off and not just the AI Protection one overall for them to truly be off (this kind of bugginess doesn't inspire confidence). The...

Devices would lose connectivity (they would show connected but wouldn't pass traffic) until I disconnected/reconnected them or restarted the router. This would happen with all three bands or two bands (both 5 or 2.4 and one 5). More specifically, the issue is with channels/freqs being set to...

Are you using AI Protection? Every time I've enabled that, I've had problems (stops passing traffic, crashes) I never could get SmartConnect to...well....keep connected and not for lack of effort; that was one feature I really wanted to work. Having three separate networks and manually...

Airtime fairness was the other thing I disabled. How are these devices configured? You have to eliminate the device first (is it disconnecting?) before looking at the router. What devices do you have? Do they go into power-saving mode? Are they mobile and leaving the area? Are any of them on...

I did and I stopped having that issue (and many others) when I disabled SmartConnect. With SmartConnect, sometimes my YouTube app would see the TV and sometimes it wouldn't; toggling WiFi on the phone would usually bring it back. Same for the ecobee app and thermostats--only I'd have to...

Are you using SmartConnect? If so, try without it and use different SSIDs for each band. SmartConnect was the main reason I bought this router and no matter what, it's been garbage. (putting all devices on one band, leaving the other unused; frequent device disconnects; preventing devices from...

I get these messages and I have QoS disabled. This thread has a few ideas: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-rt-ac88u-drops-homekit-devices-wlceventd.54482/

Keka and macOS' Archive Utility can't unzip it ("unsupported format") Not a good preview of things to come. Nothing about SmartConnect bugs, which is the feature I wanted to work.

These articles are misleading: buried in them, towards the end, after all the paranoia, drama, and sensationalism, is the fact that people are reusing passwords and doing things everyone is repeatedly told not to do. Ring cameras aren't "getting hacked", useless passwords are. This is akin to...

Yes, it has always had problems (crashes/reboots, slows down until a manual reboot, clients momentarily losing connection) and therefore I do not recommend the GT-AC5300 (or any Asus product for that matter since I've eliminated all of them due to issues like this: motherboards in 2005, laptops...

It's mandatory for troubleshooting router issues--which the AC5300 never not has

What do you mean, "How safe is it [use it across the Internet]?" What do you think is "unsafe"? Your "AppleTV is always running" but what do you think it's connected to? The Internet. What you're suggesting is having a telephone not connected to anything outside your own house--not much good...

Interference is the first thing to check, especially since you've been through (3?) different routers. 2.4GHz is a busy band (and not just for routers but many different devices/protocols use it). Use a WiFi analyzer (plenty free on the Play Store) to find the best channels to use and try a few...

Doesn't your ADT have a monthly cost? I don't know anything about Apple, so I can't comment on that. I use Ring, which has fire, CO, motion, door/window sensors, DOOR LOCKS, battery backup, and cell backup. The discount on my homeowner's insurance offsets the annual cost minus twenty bucks...