Recent content by Rumboogy

Distilled and Colin, thanks for your responses. Your are right, it is simple. I just did not understand the subtle differences between these two and now I do!

Thanks. I tried it both ways and both seem to "work" either. By "work" I mean that dnsleaktest.com shows cleanbrowsing.org as the DNS server name. But if I set the DNS under the LAN menu, then it seems breaks being able to connect to the router using the router.asus.com address. So your...

I have an old RT-N66 that I am trying to re-purpose. I would like to set the it to use the CleanBrowsing DNS. But I see two places to set a DNS - under the LAN menu and also under the WAN menu. Which of these locations would be the correct one for accomplishing this? Here are the detailed...

The one part of the story I left out was that I was switching back to the AC68 router (after junking my AC86). I did not restart the ATT gateway - I just unplugged the AC86 and re-plugged the AC68. Then I proceeded to try to update the firmware with two failures. After rebooting everything...

It took installing it three times to get it to stick. Very unclear why this would be the case.

I don't have any USB drives and I did the upgrade after powering on the router. I can try power cycling again and re-upgrading.

I upgraded a RT-AC1900P from 384.11 to 384.11_2. But after the firmware upgrade the version is still shown as being 384.11. Any thoughts?

Instead of debating the theoretical someone could just gather some more data and share it. If a test could be done in an environment with a fair amount of congestion then this would probably be a useful data point for others.

What do you mean by "WPS NVRAM Erase"? Is this just the web GUI Factory default "Restore" button with the "Initialize all settings ..." box check or something more?

Definitely one should feel free to use the SSIDs as needed (at least on the 5 GHz radio when in low congestion). I did not play around with the spreadsheet. I did not ever realized that I could - I saw it was locked and did not try further. Your analysis is interesting. As far as what...

Thanks. The computer I did the testing on was 25-30 feet from the router with two walls in between. The Network Map View List shows is having around 2 bars on the 5 GHz. It is certainly faster than any ISP plan that I have had (or plan to get in the near future). As far as your Ethernet to...

Lots of detail here. Thanks. When you say "reset" what is the procedure? Do you clear JFFS first then "Factory Default" it? Or can you skip the clearing of JFFS and just do the Factory Default?

Thanks for the detailed response. Let me ask a follow up question. In my case I had just recently done a firmware install, then a factory reset and finally a fresh configuration. In doing my recent testing of the guest networks I seemed to have messed the unit up (every time I make a settings...

L&LD, A question for you about saving and restoring. On the AC86U with Merlin, if you save the JFFS and the config and later want to restore to the previous point what is the procedure? Do you restore the JFFS first then the config, or the other way around, or just the config file and not the...

I did a 2nd experiment to test the WLAN speed without relying on an ISP at all. The conditions were all the same as the first experiment (5 GHz radio, very little local traffic, same router & firmware, etc.) except: As the data source I used a Mac connected by gigabit Ethernet directly to the...