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I have not tried the others as Sophos was my first choice and I love it. The free Home license is for one UTM but it allows all features (many of them are Enterprise so not needed) and you can have up to 50 devices (IP addresses) behind the UTM. I was surprised that it worked after install...

If you want to have 8GB in your NAS to run VirtualBox VMs, etc then that is fine, otherwise you could 2 of these 2GB Kingston SO-DIMMs from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239973

I bought my 2GB (actually 2x2GB) from Amazon in UK but this is what I bought: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191448 Server memory (ECC) will not work in the NAS as it uses the Intel Celeron CPU that does not support ECC memory - it just uses standard laptop SO-DIMMs...

Maybe keep an eye on the temperatures to see if it is over-heating?

In theory, ECC memory is a good idea however in SOHO NAS it is not always possible as the CPU (Memory controller) has to support ECC. I just checked Intel and the Atom / Celeron chips do not, you will need a Core i3 or higher for ECC.

http://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/download Read the 4th thread (sticky) in this section............

DG834G is 802.11g so if you could use it your WAN would be limited to 54Mbps max - I would think that the free WLAN is either 11n or maybe 11ac. DD-WRT or Tomato firmware may work if your DG834G is v4 - v1, v2, v3 will not: http://secure.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Known_incompatible_devices...

Log into the routers admin page and disable Remote Admin if you don't need or want to have any access from Internet.

Update to my post above: Setup my new AS5002T with the 2 WD Red 2TB drives and ran Bad Sector Check and SMART scan from Dr. ASUSTOR - no errors after ~5 hours per disk. So far I am impressed with the hardware, it is quiet and looks/feels great. To answer my own questions above: 1. I was...

Most home users are not educated on the role of a gateway router. Most home users should not be exposing anything to the Internet and if they need remote access they should know how to run a VPN. USB ports and DMZ options on ISP home routers is just a bad idea. Best is to run a UTM behind the...

If you want to upgrade to a Beta firmware then you should download it from ASUS and then do a manual firmware update from the routers firmware update page - the auto detect and update will only show released versions. Then after it restarts, you should do a full reset to factory defaults to...

I am running the Asustor built-in Bad Sector Check on each new disk as this runs each disk at full speed for ~4 hours and I can monitor disk and NAS temps then decide to keep or return suspect disks. As you do not have a NAS you can try WD tools from...

I decided on the RT-AC68U (although I use it as a WAP). For me the clincher for Asus over TP-Link, Netgear, etc was RMerlin's firmware which opens up a lot of options and fixes issues far better/quicker than relying on a single vendor. As for DHCP, I use a netmask of 255.255.255.192 which gives...

Having just been through selecting a new NAS to replace my 6 year old NAS, I thought that it would be interesting to see how many people are actually using each of the main vendor products on offer. Also given that Asustor is a "new" kid on the block and how they have risen in the Charts (top 2...

I think that you should test this without disconnecting any cables as the router will sense the cable is not there. Try to disconnect the internet connection coming into your ISP modem and then see if the AC68 fails over to the other connection.