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MerVLAN VLAN Manager – Simple and Powerful VLAN Management MerVLAN is an addon for Asuswrt-Merlin that adds a graphical VLAN manager directly inside the asuswrt-merlin web UI. It is designed for AP-mode deployments and lets you: Assign VLANs per SSID (Wi-Fi network) Assign VLANs per...

Hello everyone, We’re in the planning phase of building a new hotel, and I’m seeking advice on the most efficient and scalable way to design the network infrastructure. We have two options in mind and would appreciate your professional input: Traditional setup: Running dedicated Ethernet...

I'd like to ask advice about how to design my WiFi network at home and suggestion waht devices to buy: - It's a 3 story building with total 220sqm~2400sqft. - Currently I use 4 mesh devices indoors (D-Link covr 1100), all connected with wired ethernet. It's two on the middle story plus one on...

Hey all, Just had my 950VA UPS alert me last night with the solid tone and green / red flashing LED that it's battery was dead, or soon to be, or other related issue. So today I ordered a new one delivery from store that's a 450VA. I'm pretty sure this will be plenty to back up the modem /...

Hi. I got 1Gbps fiber and I'm trying to build home network from scratch because I currently have ASUS TUF-AX5400 as the main router connecting via PPPoE and an TP-Link Archer C6 v2 (abandoned by TP-Link) as AP on second floor and with that 4 different wifi networks and I want to do a single mesh...

In short, I am able to access a website when I connect my PC directly to the modem, but not when I use a switch in between. To login to that website, we need to register our IP addresses first through our HQ. We registered 3 out of 5 static IP addresses allotted by our ISP. The ISP gave us a...

Hello folks I have been using an Asus Rt-AC86U router for several years. For me it is very important that I can access my individual SSDs and HDs on the USB3 port individually via Samba. That's why I installed the Samba_Fixer (https://github.com/dnlongen/ASUSWRT_Samba_Fixer). It ran for years...

Hi everyone. I'm pretty new to home networking. A while ago I setup an OpenWRT WiFi Router and that was quite complicated but I got it working. I'm now trying to better understand networking as a whole and design my own home network. I have been planning to build a NAS for file sharing, etc. and...

Technical Informations: Asus RT-AX86U Firmware Version: 3.0.0.4.388_23285 So The issue: Its really easy to describe. My 2.4 Ghz Network is not working anymore. you can not connect to it realiably, if if you manage to connect to it, there is no internet access possible. 5 ghz Network work...

Hi everyone! I’m absolutely new to networking and hoping to set things up our new home to allow the family to work and play without seeing dreaded buffering or latency problems in the years to come! Unfortunately the house is not wired for Ethernet but it does have coax wired to the basement...

Any software/web app recommendations for creating a network diagram?

Hey all, Just a quick question, I've been reading more instances lately where Spaces can cause issues with SSID names. I was curious as to what this specifically applies to in today's standards. For example, my SSIDs are "iFrog Media", and iFrog Media 5GHz" I've never had any kind of...

I'm trying to figure out how to use an encrypted SSD as a networked drive with my XT8 router. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Not really sure what I need to do here

I have lost my second PfSense router to another friend of mine for the 2nd time in as many years! Anyway, they were on an old hardware and I was planning an upgrade; because, we have starting planning a home-automation project. We want to lockdown the network before we do anything on this...

Good day :) I am planning a network for my home, a building of 4 apartments. Two heads are better than one and so I want to get a review of the proposed topology attached here. The downlink from telco to home is Fiber 200 Mbps. Thankfully, please review and tell if there are any missing...

Hi, I wanted to set up a router VPN on my AC68U. I installed asuswrt_Merlin for that, and I see it's possible to create a VPN tunnel & set certain IPs to use VPN, exclude others. However, the only way to change from using the tunnel to not using it is by manually moving the IP. Is it possible...

Hello folks, Please how to connect all these devices to this switch? All the devices RJ45 cables are going to the Rack Patch Panel. No internet connection will be involved. Thanks in advance

Hi, I currently run a LAN server behind my Asus Router. It connects to a commercial VPN provider as a client and this is the router for all WAN access. Because of this, as you will be aware better than I, it tunnels through the router before being visible to the Internet and this means that it...

I am having issues when gaming, namely that I am disconnected from game servers in Overwatch. Really inconvenient. - Can someone help me troubleshoot? - 1) Can this be due to faulty firmware installation (clearing nvram) or - 2) can it be blamed on my ISP? - 3) can it be due my old wired...

Hi! I have read up on several guides for setting up a VPN on mu ASUSMerlin router. But im still having the issue that not my whole network goes threw the vpn only my computer and not the phone and everything else connected to the network. - Basically I want it to be setup as my superb editing...