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    Can Verizon CR1000B work with other brand MoCA adapters?

    I am considering connecting the two floors of my home via the existing coaxial cable using MoCA. For that, I am considering using Verizon's CR1000B router that was given to me for free with the Verizon Fios installation as a MoCA adapter, so that I can buy just one other MoCA adapter. I was...
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    R6330 in bridge mode suddenly refuses to connect via Wi-Fi to the "main router"

    For about 2 years, I've had the following internet configuration at home: ASUS RT-AC86U (with Merlin firmware) being my main router, and Netgear R6330 used as a bridge for 2 Ethernet-only devices: desktop+SMB-file-server and an MFP printer. After moving to a different place, I've restored the...
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    samba share from router-attached HDD

    Thank you for that idea, I don't know how I hadn't thought about it. And yes, you are right, it does seem to be a problem with the desktop PC's SMB client. (It worked when I connected the laptop to that Netgear bridge via Ethernet. Since I've discovered that almost a month ago, I've been trying...
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    samba share from router-attached HDD

    I have an RT-AC86U router with an attached HDD (USB3). I created an SMB share. I can access it from a laptop and a phone. However, I have problems accessing it from a desktop that is connected to the same network via ethernet & Netgear R6330 in a bridge mode. (This router connects a few...
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    Question about security protocol used by RT-ACU86U

    These are the screenshots from the Wi-Fi survey page ( /visindex.asp ) for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, respectively. My router (shown in read in both cases) is RT-AC86U. I am just curious, what is meant that my router has "AES" (and not AES-CCMP)? As far as I understand, "AES" is just an encryption...
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    In what time zone are the parental controls?

    First of all, thank you, @ColinTaylor for suggesting these commands to check the rules. The rules look fine, but after that initial incident, I didn't experience this problem. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to look at the iptables at the time of the incident, as my kiddo needed to start the...
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    In what time zone are the parental controls?

    That's what I expected, but, something doesn't compute. There was no message changing to DST, but a bunch of processes reported restarting/reloading: Mar 12 03:00:30 miniupnpd[2803]: shutting down MiniUPnPd then ovpn-server1 also restarted (causing dnsmasq to restart and reread its...
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    In what time zone are the parental controls?

    I encountered a strange problem with Parental Controls -> Time Scheduling: After the change to the daylight saving time on March 12 (in the US), it looks like the scheduled times remained in the non-daylight saving time. I have a computer for which the offtime is 21:00-7:00, and now it gets the...
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    failed to write /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases: No space left on device (retry in 60s)

    I also had this issue in late November. As I discovered from the log later, for several days in a row ( I saw 3 days, but I didn't see the onset of those , I was getting errors dnsmasq-dhcp[30491]: failed to write /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases: No space left on device (retry in 60 s) Those were...
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    Any conflicts between ASUS Android router app and Merlin firmware?

    I am wondering if anybody has seen any real conflicts between the ASUS android app for controlling routers and Merlin firmware? I am not talking about the obvious differences in functionality (and some things not available in the app), but only in the things that might get the router getting...
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    What does "The For ALL DEVICES flag of Prof 1 has been set to DISABLE" mean?

    I observe it on RT-AC86U with the latest (386.7_2) Asuswrt-Merlin. However, I saw it in relation to other ASUS router models, so, I assume the meaning of this log message is the same across different models, isn't it?
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    What does "The For ALL DEVICES flag of Prof 1 has been set to DISABLE" mean?

    I've recently noticed this message in the syslog: kernel: The For ALL DEVICES flag of Prof 1 has been set to DISABLE While trying to google it, I've found it in a bunch of posts on different forums, but I cannot find any mentioning of what it means (and when is likely to appear). It is not...
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    Relatively high load with idle CPU on ASUS RT-AC86U with ASUSWRT-Merlin

    Thank you for that link! (Having worked with different *nix systems for many moons, I feel weird seeing these erroneous load numbers.)
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    Relatively high load with idle CPU on ASUS RT-AC86U with ASUSWRT-Merlin

    I am not experiencing any problems, so, at this point it is just a curiosity. I've just noticed that the "load", as reported by top (1) and can be seen in /proc/loadavg is consistently (over the past 20+ minutes) sitting above 2.70 (sometimes spiking to over 3.00), while the CPU is 99.x% idle...
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    RT-AC86U w. Merlin "disconnects" RT-N66R in media bridge mode

    Thank you, @Tech9! That's helpful! (That info should be in the pinned threads. But, I am guessing, not that many people are using it as a media bridge...) I hope to have time to play with this in about 2-3 weeks. Do you remember if there were any critical issues fixed/changed between 380.66_6...
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