Recent content by RussellInCincinnati

Good idea. Have basically given up on the older adapter, under arch Linux and Windows it usually will not connect at 5ghz.

With a 10-meters-away RT-AC68u (3-stream 802.11ac) router running 384.4 Merlin firmware, my Edimax 7833uac USB WiFi network adapter ($35 dollars or so) connects at 1.3 gigabits per second nominal link rate on a 5 gigahertz channel. Connection strength on Linux reads "100%." The older Edimax...

Exactly my own experience with AiMesh. Mediocre performance, but you do get the convenience of one SSID to log into throughout a site with many routers. AiMesh on expensive Asus routers feels a little like trying to use an Asus router as a serious file server. Can't you get a much more serious...

You can verify in many other parts of this forum that the client list/client status info is not under control of the Merlin firmware changes. It is part of some of the binary code where Merlin does not even have source code access. For years throughout many revisions we have seen that this...

Thanks, RMerlin. Will investigate how to change to that probably-faster cipher/encryption method with my NordVPN service. Guess it will involve staring at the little client .ovpn config files they download to you. Great idea.

As mentioned above in post number 26, with the correct Wlan Pi image burned onto a micro-SD card, with the easily-downloaded "Etcher" software for my little Linux box downloaded from https://etcher.io , and then doing this from my Linux command prompt: $ sudo chmod +x Etcher-linux-x64.AppImage...

The NanoPi NEO2 is a cool little computer, took me 8 minutes to assemble because of several mistakes. Booted fine with the included microSD card. Got an IP address ...224 immediately from my Asus RT-AC68u router. Easy to SSH into a command prompt as per NanoPi quickstart guide. Why can't we...

There is no way that any type of 25%-35% overclocking of your RT-AC68u could possibly change any type of throughput from 300 megabits per second to 900 Mbps.

Doubt that a stock version 1 RT-AC68u can do much more than 18 megabits per second with OpenVPN. 18 is about tops.

It has long been clear through many versions that the client lists are imperfect in several respects, due to Asus-written code that the Merlin project does not attempt to re-engineer.

It would be great to know your transfer speed with stock Asus firmware. So we could determine if this forum is the right place to discuss your desire for better performance of the Asus WiFi router as a nearly featureless file server.

Not sure what a very large directory is...EXT4 would surely work fine in your situation, particularly since going through a USB port, and certainly going through a low-power router that has other things to do besides being a NAS appliance, the niceties of XFS files would not survive the trip to...

Merlin, what is the current list of file systems supported by version 384? And what is your latest file system recommendation for max reliability? Also, why no support for the Commodore 64/VIC 20 cassette tape format?

What a great post. Finally got my VPN exemptions working. /Russell

Thanks much to RMerlin as usual, and Martineau thanks for such great help. You have pointed the way for further studying, wonderful.