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    Asuswrt-Merlin router with 2.5gbps WAN and LAN ports - quick bit of purchase advice, please...?

    Sod that, then, I need my Merlin firmware. :D I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think my Virgin Hub 5 sports 802.3ad. :( It has a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet port, so they probably figured it wouldn't need that. I'm starting to get the feeling I should just hold fire for a bit and hope Asus eventually...
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    Asuswrt-Merlin router with 2.5gbps WAN and LAN ports - quick bit of purchase advice, please...?

    Having looked at Asus' website, I am struggling to understand the capabilities of those two devices. It looks like the AX3000 V2 has a 2.5Gb WAN port, but the LAN ports are all gigabit - except that it's possible to aggregate two of the LAN ports to make a 2Gb connection. Is that right? If so...
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    Asuswrt-Merlin router with 2.5gbps WAN and LAN ports - quick bit of purchase advice, please...?

    Well, sure. But I do sometimes do some heavy downloading on my desktop PC, at the same time as my partner is running a remote desktop session to her workplace upstairs (she works odd hours) and then leave that running while I'm watching Disney+ and checking for app updates on my phone - it all...
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    Asuswrt-Merlin router with 2.5gbps WAN and LAN ports - quick bit of purchase advice, please...?

    Oof, £270. I was hoping for something a shade cheaper than that! Well, I'll mull it over.
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    Asuswrt-Merlin router with 2.5gbps WAN and LAN ports - quick bit of purchase advice, please...?

    Hello all. I wonder if I could ask for a quick bit of purchase advice? I'm in the UK and my broadband provider is Virgin (cable service). The supplied Virgin router is... okay, but not great; so instead I've been using an RT-AC86U router (with Merlin software, naturally), with the Virgin "hub"...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    Ah, yes, you're right - I could swear I had tried almost exactly that before, and it messed up the metric values; but it seems to be giving them sensible values now - see all the entries with Metric 21 here: C:\WINDOWS\system32>route print...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    I haven't had a chance to check this yet, but this sounds like it's going to fall foul of Metric problems. In order for the PC to use the USB adapter preferentially for Internet traffic, the USB adapter has to have a lower metric than the gigabit adapter. In order for the PC to use the newly...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    As such, this didn't help, because the "unidentified network" doesn't create a registry entry. But studying the rest of that page did allow me to make some progress! It's possible to use the Group Policy Editor to set unidentified networks to be treated as private. Of course it's not that easy...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    We-ell... for any given IP address, only one adapter will ever be talking to it. The gigabit adapter deals with IP addresses between 192.168.0.4 and 192.168.0.255; the USB adapter deals with everything either above or below that range (including the gateway, which is 192.168.0.1). There's no...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    If I understand correctly, you can't really block anything using the route command, you can only enable routes; but then the question becomes, could we enable (say) everything below 192.168.0.0 and everything above 192.168.0.255, and then add one more route to enable access to 192.168.0.1...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    Okay, so this still isn't working for me. I've figured out why: once I remove the gateway setting from the gigabit adapter, Windows no longer recognises it as accessing the same network, and relabels the "new" one as "public" rather than "private"; so, in order for other devices on the LAN to be...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    This is roughly what I'm seeing at the moment. With the gateway setting removed on the gigabit adapter, gigabit adapter set to Metric 10 and USB adapater set to Metric 20, the PC can still access the Internet via USB, and can still access other devices on the network via the gigabit adapter -...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    "Try going away and leaving it for a few hours to see if anything changes spontaneously" is not a strategy that had occurred to me. :D I will give that another go and report back tomorrow!
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    So, as far as I can tell, doing the route delete command seems to have the same effect as manually removing the gateway setting on the gigabit adapter - if I run the command and then check the adapter's properties, the gateway value has been cleared. I assume you were expecting that? I googled...
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    Under Windows, can I use one ethernet adapter for LAN traffic and one for Internet traffic?

    .2 is the built-in gigabit adapter, and .3 is the 2.5gbps USB adapter.
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