Recent content by zjohnr

I have been using, without actually paying all that much attention to, an Asus RT-AC56U I apparently purchased back in Feb 2014. :oops: It has been/still is running the last supported version of Merlin, 384.6. I am considering installing the last Asus RT-AC56U firmware that I see on the Asus...

D-Link Shipping Smart Power Outlet This press release mostly just raised questions for me ... as press releases always seem to do. (Probably by design?) My main question is what sort of a scenario would a remote power switch be used in. None occurred to me, but maybe only because I have a...

I moved the AC56U to ASUSWRT-Merlin v374.40 A quick (for me) follow-up note to my previous long winded comment about my ASUS RT-AC56U. After submitting that post I stumbled across Scott Deleew's 26 DEC 2012 article, ASUSWRT-Merlin Reviewed. Based on that article and on my understanding that...

Am I satisfied with the AC56U? Yes and no. I would suggest you at least glance through an article like Tim's, "Is AC1900 Worth It?". While the questions he asks are focused on AC1900, it's also worth it to consider the "Is it worth it?" question in a more general context. In other words...

I am hopeful. But the only way to know is to get it, set it up, and live with it for a while and see what happens. My house is probably not even 1200 sq ft and I am seldom as much as 25' from the router, so range is not my top priority. Also, I follow what I think of as the Tim Higgin's "Dope...

Newegg has AC56U for $100 again weekend of Feb 15-16 I'm not sure how much my "me too" comments are worth, but ... I went with ordering an AC56U a few minutes ago. Newegg has it for $100 again over this weekend. My (possibly mistaken?) understanding is that the AC56U has the same...

This is a question about the "Con" listed in the review, ASUS RT-AC56U 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1200 Gigabit dated 03 October 2013. I'm not sure what "Very expensive for an AC1200 class router" may mean at this point in time. Has the price changed (much) since the router was reviewed...

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, but it is where the forum link at the bottom of the article took me. I just wanted to point out some nits I noticed about Huh? A Million WiGig Chipsets Shipped? First, the article reads "The company, a developer of 60 GHz 802.11ad complaint...

OK, so apparently Synology did drop the Freescale PowerPC processor I tend to be a tad slow so I only just now noticed that the following SmallNetBuilder announce article was updated with some spec changes for the DS114 & DS414. Synology Announces More SOHO NASes Also announced today are...

It was also interesting that the Atom referred to was the recent CE5315. In this press release, Intel describes the Atom CE5300 series as a low power system-on-chip (SoC). I have been used to classifying a NAS as either an SoC or an Atom based NAS. Guess that is still valid, but the...

And this site, www.techorz.com/peripherals/synology-diskstation-ds414-computex-2013, says that the DS414 will still be Freescale but the clock is bumped to 1.33 GHz. I am not aware of any announcement from Synology about a DS414 so who knows? Not saying it is wrong, just that I have no idea...

The "Closing Thoughts" section of the SmallNetBuilder review of the Synology DS413 ends with the following thought. The main risk I see is Synology's long term commitment to the Freescale platform. If they decide it's not worth keeping up three versions of their NAS OS, development is going to...

How did it work out for you? Just wondering if you ever acted on your research. If so, if time permits, could you update the thread with what you actually did and how you feel about the results? I'm just always curious about how things actually turned out as opposed to what was planned. ;)...

An update on Mac Airport 2.4 GHz client link rates A brief update about ways to learn the client link rate in a Mac in addition to the link Tim provided (quoted above). First, as pointed out in one of the posts in this thread, in Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6, information about the client...

Thanks! Did anyone bother to tell the router manufacturers ... and their marketeering departments in particular ... about this? :rolleyes: Thanks, Tim. Every extra bit of explaining "the obvious" helps in my case. :) -irrational john