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Q on smart phone's MAC address : Most phones now come with the feature to randomize the MAC address, so does your Travel Routers cloned MAC address change when you move to different hotel or re-authenticate your wifi service at the same hotel?

thanks you sir for saving me time :) loos like a cheap wifi adapter is on the buy list now :)

Thanks. So you are saying even if I get a media bridge that supports VLAN, still I cant do this as the Main AX86U Pro router does not support multiple/split VLANs?

I have a Asus Rt-ac86u working as a Media Bridge. It connects to my Main Routers 5G wifi network. My main router is Rt-AX86U Pro running Merlin : 3006.102.5 I have a IOT only network running on 2.4g band. The guest network has a separate sub-net. I see that I can assign the physical LAN port...

Dirty update from last official FW to the 3006.102.5, 20h and things are running fine. Also installed the Router Date Keeper (that 31 Dec dates in logs were bothering me :) The RAM usage seems to have gone down by ~75-100Mb. 1Q) how to show the temp in F in the System Info tab? Also: my temps...

3) Forgot to add: I updated the DHCP lease time to 1 Day / 86400 second. This has hugely reduced the size of the log.

No issue today. Changes made in last few days: 1) Moved the Desktop to a Fixed IP 2) Disabled IP V6 on Desktop adapter I will update this thread if the issue happens again.

Thanks for the tip, I have done that ... its wait and watch now :)

yup Desktop and Pi are on same subnet, they are not on guest network. Pihole always had static IP, Yesterday night made desktop a fixed IP and shut off the PC. Today morning the issue did not happen (not sure if it is solved) This almost sounds like a setting is getting lost/flipped or a time...

Desktop was configured to get IP automatically form Router, Yesterday night made it a fixed IP and shut off the PC. Today morning the issue did not happen (not sure if it is solved) PiHole has fixed IP at Router (LAN>DHCP). Not on Merlin as of now. I have guest Guest Network Pro , but the...

Update: 26 July Issue happened again. Desktop has correct Pi Hole DNS. No internet Unable to Ping the Pi Hole or Ad Guard IP Disabled all other network adapters, rebooted desktop, no internet. Checked with Tablet on same WiFi SSD, same DNS, it has internet Changed DNS to public DNS, flushed...

My Desktop and My Phone are on the same SSID, phone continued to work. I did not think of that. You may be on to something. Next time I will try this approach also.

The FW was installed in March when it came out and the setup has been running fine since then. Its only last 1-2 week I noticed this issue. And again its not daily, occasionally. One the FW was updated, I did the reset and config from scratch.

Thanks for the inputs. The setup has been running flawlessly for like few months. Pi Zero W 1 runs PiHole as primary DNS, Pi Zero W 2 runs Ad Guard DNS a secondary DNS. Next time this issue happens, I will use public DNS and see if it solves the issue without main router reboot.

I have removed the dongle, next time this happens I will check the DNS servers. Thanks for the tip.