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    Router and client show different IP addresses for client

    I am having a weird issue, a Macbook Pro in my network is showing one IP address for itself while the router is showing a different one for it. Normally I would be like "that's odd" and move on, but the VPN Director is clearly not functioning properly because of this (and probably a whole bunch...
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    Best new router for Merlin?

    Thanks to everyone for your views! I just got an AX86U and, so far, I am VERY happy with it. The CPU cores are not spiking as often as on the AC66U_B1 (and I get two more cores!), performance seems and feels better, in all, a happy transition! Now I'm going thru the new features of this model...
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    Speedtest giving strange value

    By the way, just to chip in with my experience, it seems I was having issues due to CPU spiking. After a few days the router always needed a reboot to get back into proper speeds. I noticed the CPU cores spiking really bad when I was having issues. Solution: Bought an AX86U :P
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    Best new router for Merlin?

    on nice, interesting t hen, that's worth looking into! So via a wired link then using different channels, it should be alright?
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    Best new router for Merlin?

    Very detailed, thank you! And what would happen if I kept the old AC66U-B1 as an AiMesh node? Would that hinder the AX86U performance?
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    Best new router for Merlin?

    So besides the AX86U, what else is decent? Is there a cheaper AX option?
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    Best new router for Merlin?

    Yeah exactly why I mentioned this, it IS redlining, I get CPU spikes a lot. The router worked great for many years, I think it's due time for an upgrade (and work can pay for it :) ) Thanks for your input, I'll start looking at that one, but hope others chip in with their views too!
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    Best new router for Merlin?

    What does everyone think is the best new router to get for Asus-Merlin in a heavy bandwidth home office/home setup? Our AC66U B1 seems to be struggling. What's the difference of the AX line?
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    VPN Director not applying rules to right VPN profile

    Yeah but not my case, this is why I said, my provider (Nord) uses only 10.7.x.x and 10.8.x.x (10.7 is TCP, 10.8 is UDP)
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    Speedtest giving strange value

    Well, that just isn't it. Finally after a few hard restarts, this looks normal (showing basically the same results as from the client). I don't know what it is, but feels like every now and then the router just decides to make everything bog slow, and nothing solves it but a restart. Nope, no QoS
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    VPN Director not applying rules to right VPN profile

    So I happened to run into this issue. My VPN service only gives out local IPs in the 10.8.X.X or 10.7.X.X values. Is there any way I can fix this for the time being? Anything I tell VPN Director to route through Client 2, gets routed through Client 1.
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    Speedtest giving strange value

    Yeah the test is not going thru the VPN (I also turned the client off), it's going thru WAN. And I chose the same server on both. It's like it's showing 10% of the speed. Here's the results I just pulled: vs:
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    Speedtest giving strange value

    I noticed my router now has a Speedtest built into the WebUI and decided to give it a try. Surprisingly, it's giving me the wrong value on download speed. I don't understand why. if I test from my laptop going to speedtest.net, I get ~200Mbps download, 30Mbps upload, which is what I supposedly...
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    Problems running VPN server...

    All already posted in this thread's first post: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/problems-running-vpn-server.61769/ Anything. A computer, a service. Nothing works. It's set to LAN only. So no. I don't want Internet access. [edit] i tried something else. Without the VPN, I opened a web server...
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    Problems running VPN server...

    Hello it's me again with this problem, I had given up then and came back to it again recently and still cannot figure it out. I have a few questions: - I have firewall enabled in the router, would this be impeding the access to the LAN while connected to the VPN? So I need to do something with...
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