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Hello, This is my first post here. I had a ASUS GT-AX6000 wifi router for a few years which worked excellent. I recently moved to a new place in which the single access point cannot cover the premises. So I figured that I needed one more ASUS GT-AX6000 to extend the wifi coverage and that...

Hi All So I've downloaded the RT-AX86U_PRO_3004_388.8_4 firmware (I'm on RT-AX86U_PRO_3004_388.8_2 and saw there was an update available) Running a MD5 checksum either from my portable apps, or online, doesn't give a match for the sha256sum.sha.256 value in the zip; namely MD5 from app/online...

When I try to log into the Astrill applet on the router with iPhone, the entire page is blank, but there’s no issue when doing it on my computer. My WIFI is ASUS BE-86U Merlin3006.102.2_beta1. Does anyone know how to fix it?

For the past few years I have been blessed with an ISP that did not often change my dynamic IP address. Maybe 1x per year if that. However times change and the new owners have different methods. It now appears to be about once per month. Thus I have turned on DDNS using the default...

Hello, Long-time Merlin user considering a home-network upgrade with a RT-BE88U - given that Merlin is just beginning to release firmware betas for it. I would like to get some consensus on whether my thinking is correct about getting real-world improvements with a new RT-BE88U - before I...

By default pfSense will port randomize all outgoing UDP connections (reference), which some say indirectly improves the privacy and security of devices behind the firewall. This basically turns NAT into a more restrictive level. for example, a device behind the LAN wants UDP port 48695 open...

Just discovered this amazing tool and subscribed, loving it! I have recently moved to a new ISP that supports "native" IPv6. I am using a Asus RT-AC86u with Merlin, and Cloudflare DNS as default resolver, with NextDNS set up as TLS resolver with IPv6 and TLS address - although the command line...

I've looked through several dozen thread with similar issues, but none appear to provide solutions that have had any effect on my problem. I have a RT-AC66U B1 running Merlin 386.14 the local network is 192.168.50.0/24 OpenVPN is enabled, TUN/UDP, with a subnet of 192.168.69.0/24. connection...

Hi all - title pretty much says it all, but more details are below. I've read through several discussions (example) regarding killswitch changes/issues. FWIW, it appears to me that most have concerned OpenVPN instead of Wireguard connections. AFAIK, none cites issues with NTP sync on boot as a...

I use Asus Merlin and I have a Pihole running on a personal server that is added as DNS on my network that all my devices use on my LAN. Is there some other type of DNS that I need to also setup? I disable all DNS on all my devices so it doesn't interfere with the Pihole. Is this bad practice...

I am new to the openvpn topics. I have an ac59u running on asuswrt and just bought an ac86u running on merlin. I set exactly the same openvpn client on both of these routers (vpn server from hotspot shield). Following are my observations: 1. The dl and ul speed on ac59u is higher than those of...

Hello, I have recently been fighting the issue in subject and I want to share my experience in the hope it might help some others. I have read dozens of articles in various forums, trying to work around or fix the problem. It is apparently a frequent problem with various explanations out of...

My partner and I both work from home the majority of the time, and we both have a lot of Zoom and Google Meet calls over wifi. For the past couple of months we've seen a lot of "blips" during video calls, where the signal seems to drop out on the call and it take a second or two to sync back up...

I keeping firewall restart and it turns on the parental controls, which then blocks my kids computers, the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox. I turn of the enable time scheduling and remove the blocked devices and then it does it all over again.I have done the hard factory reset plenty of times and it...

I have the RT-AX86U Pro router flashed with the latest Merlin (3004.388.8_2). Speeds i'm getting from my ISP are great! 930 down / 40 up. Devices on my 5Ghz SSID gets 240mbps or better. The plex server has a few videos that are 99+Mbps and because of this, I decided to connect it directly to...

Merlin feature request: Two factor authentication web login. (TOTP - Time-based one-time password) I think this would benefit PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) authentication the routers use. For those that have no idea what I’m talking about it’s a security feature that requires you to...

Hello, My AC86u router has been randomly restarting recently, with consistently high CPU usage. It only has the amtm's LED SWITCH CONTROL installed and an OPENVPN service running. I have noticed many kernel errors in the logs.The log is provided below. **Info:** - System: 386.13.2 Merlin -...

I've been having problems with time machine backup and I think i've narrowed it down to Adguard--- I am noticing that I can't complete a backup successfully,and it seems to be something with how adguard is handling domain names of local clients /DNS.. I see this in the adguard logs & on my...

Fresh setup flow for GT-BE98 Pro w/ Merlin has a couple bugs - 1. visual bug, snapshot of old RT-N66 style router 2. Functional bug - after selecting automatic IP, only 2.4ghz is shown, and the router freezes on this screen after apply.

Hello everyone, I am a new user of the Skynet firewall and have been using it for a while now. I find it very useful for blocking unwanted domains and IP addresses. However, I’ve encountered a few issues and would appreciate any help or advice. Slow firewall rule loading: Every time I start...