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Interesting. I have a GT-BE98 Pro and my Sonos Arc and Sub Mini started having issues. I created a Firestick-IoT VLAN and the Sonos ARC went nuts and stopped working. No matter what I did, the Arc would connect but the Sub Mini would not. It was a S%%T show. TWO hour on the phone with Sonos...

My GT-BE98 Pro has been driving me crazy the last several weeks. It’s started with constant reboots. When I really dug into it, it was a flaky Amazon Firestick not playing nice. When I finally isolated those on their own VLAN and made very simplistic network setting for them, everything...

What “Roaming Assistant = Disable” really means On Asus routers (including the BE-88U): Roaming Assistant = the client kick feature When Enabled, the router: Monitors RSSI. Deauths clients below a threshold (e.g., -70 dBm). Forces them to reconnect to a stronger AP/band. So your UI setting is...

Boring stable WiFi on your GT-AX11000 for IoT: Band: 2.4 GHz SSID: “Dedicated IoT SSID” Channel: 1 or 6 or 11 Bandwidth: 20 MHz Security: WPA2-Personal (AES) PMF: Disabled Roaming Assistant: Disabled Beacon Interval: 100 DTIM: 3 Bluetooth Coexistence: Enabled TX Bursting: Disabled

40 mHz causes overlap on 2.4gHz. I’d change it to 20mHz. I’d also not use channel 5. Use 1,6, or 11. Change your authentication method to WPA2 Personal only. Roaming assist: Disable Bluetooth coexistence: Enable DTIM Interval: 3 Beacon Interval: 100 TX Bursting: Disable And one last thing…...

I’m referring to any Amazon devices like an Amazon Echo, or an Amazon Firestick for TV, or an Amazon Smart Plug. These devices don’t connect physically to the router; rather they’re devices connected to your network. They can wreak havoc on your network causing this instability. This seems like...

Are you using a Firestick by chance? There is a known Amazon <-> Broadcom incompatibility issue. The MAC address decoded to some sort of Amazon device. Amazon Wi-Fi stacks are well-known for Poor WPA3 support (especially mixed WPA2/WPA3). PMF (802.11w) negotiation bugs. Aggressive reconnect...

Interesting. On my GT-BE98 Pro, I’m using a 7 letter password. No numbers. No special. Only accessible via LAN. I’ve never used any special characters or numbers albeit Merlin 3006.102.4.

That’s very generous of you to offer. Thank you. I have a backup ARRIS S33 and an old RT-AX88U that I’m limping along until the new GT-BE98 Pro gets delivered Monday. It was indeed spectacular and a lesson to me that the lightning will travel the Cat5 cable between the modem and router. The...

So the wife-unit and I were sitting and relaxing watching the TV. There was a thunderstorm passing and things were firing up. The CM3000 modem and the GT-BE98 Pro (with the latest Merlin of course) were sitting about 15 feet away doing their thing. The BRIGHTEST FLASH I’ve ever seen and the...

Thank you sir. So I'll not worry about them. Cheers.

Greeting folks, I noticed a strange (to me) issue on my LAN. I'm using Merlin 386.7_2 on an RT-AX88u router. I have no VPN set up. No scripts; just plain vanilla networking and about 30 devices connected various through WiFi and wired. My DHCP is set up like the photos below.. [edit for...

Thanks guys... success and everything seems to be fine. It was up and running pretty quickly and I did a factory reset. I copied from my screen shots and viola! I put in my OpenDNS settings in the DHCP and in the WAN and everything seemed to work fine. After about an hour, the TV went wonk...

Thank you. I thought I remembered this previously. I just finished taking screen-shots of all the pages for settings. I'm fix'n to go in! Cheers!

Greeting folks. I'm presently on 384.19 and the wife-unit will be out for a while. I'm contemplating on updating to the 386.7_2. I'm not an expert user as most of you are and my network is pretty basic. Is there anything I should do prior to updating with this large of a jump in firmware? I'm...