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Yikes. Looks like I have an answer. Many thanks again.

ChatGPT 5.2 Auto thinks the following: "In your scenario (1905 UK walls + 2 internal walls + gaming latency), the limiting factor is propagation and backhaul, not peak Wi-Fi spec, and 6 GHz (the BE92U’s headline advantage) is the worst band for punching through old walls—and you also have no...

Hello. I have a very trusty RT-AX86U as my main router, providing WAN connectivity over Powerline adaptors to an old RT-AC56U. It gives mixed results, mostly due to the Powerline tech I suspect. My house has old cavity walls (UK, 1905 built) and my son needs gaming connectivity up in his room...

I appreciate your efforts, but it doesn't change the outcome. Edit: Just tried it again and it works now! Many thanks. I'm mystified. The stub failed on first run but now works.

It persists in /usr/sbin. admin@RTAX86U:/tmp/home/root# rm -rf /usr/sbin/amtm rm: can't remove '/usr/sbin/amtm': Read-only file system admin@RTAX86U:/tmp/home/root#

I see the recommended way to remove amtm is with amtm. But it won't run. Hmm.

I added that in there, following one solution suggesting it was a certs issue, from the threads I linked to above. I removed the mount entry and rebooted, but it didn't make any difference.

Hello, I've been through a few other posts from users that have had this problem and mine doesn't appear to be cert or DNS related. ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AX86U 3004.388.9_2 Mon Apr 28 21:28:05 UTC 2025 admin@RTAX86U:/tmp/home/root# amtm _____________________________________________ Initializing...

Okaay. It was a bad USB after all. The problem didn't show up until I tried reformatting the USB device partitions (Optware, JFFS and Data), which gave I/O read errors. USB Health check didn't detect it, but I wouldn't have expected it to.

Hello good people, I noticed a jffs script failing (the script failed to run the idstools pip package actually) after upgrade to 388.1 and discovered I'm getting "Illegal instuction" when running any python3-pip package. It's been working for at least the last two years running pip packages...

Yup. The pip package openpyn developer confirms precisely this here and no, it's not changed.

I think I mostly agree. I love that kind of challenge though. You must admit, the ability to tilt the information asymmetry of the attacker in your favour with anomalous behaviour detection and monitoring is seductive.

Yep. But chances are you're not running full gigabit (with all of your devices supporting it) on a home network anyway, right? There's always tradeoffs.

I have previously looked into cross compiling zeek IDS (previously aka bro-ids) for Asuswrt-merlin. It's not an insignificant task but would meet a lot of the functional requirements you mention, in particular: Zeek-ids has a scripting language to enable much of this. This is something...

If you have enough memory available on your router, you could also run the original granddaddy of security monitoring solutions - snort opkg install snort and most importantly, look at the output on a regular basis.