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    Laptop strugling with wifi - Surface Book 2 + Asus Zenwifi XT8

    Hi! Not certain this was the correct place to post but here goes. I've had my laptop, Surface Book 2 13" I7 8gb for a few years. Once every now and then I experience severe wifi connectivity/speed issues, especially much lately. I get speeds of a few mbps or sub 1 mbps at 30 ms ping (normally...
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    GS-AX5400 Wifi Question

    Hi, Just wondering if it is normal for the 5Ghz Wifi Channel to take 1 to 2 minutes longer than the 2.4Ghz to show up to connect to after a reboot? I have 2 of these in a mesh and am wondering if I have a defective one or not. Thanks.
  3. poolbeetse7en

    Guest Networks - Schedule

    Hi folks, I'm trying to work out how I can create schedules on the Guest Networks to toggle them on/off during certain days/times. My kids are driving me nuts with it and they can easily get around the parental controls with MAC address spoofing etc. Instead, they are going to have their own...
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    GT-AX6000 - Beginner Setup (Merlin etc)

    Hey all! Am relatively new to custom firmwares etc and seeing the power that routers can have. I just got the Asus GT-AX6000 to replace my Netgear R7800. Wanted WiFi6 and slightly better hardware. I'll be using WiFi to connect pretty much everything (Besides a philips Hue bridge and an old NAS...
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    Asus AC86U WiFi channel 13 not working

    Hi all, I have an ASUS AC86U with Asuswrt-Merlin and have been using the channel 13 on 2.4GHz without problems for 2 years. A few days ago, channel 13 stopped working without any reason and without doing anything on the router. I was watching a movie online, and suddenly the WiFi dropped on...
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    ASUS-RT-AX82U Router Randomly disconnecting

    Hello everyone, Thank you for a great forum. This is my first post, so please go easy on me. I bought an ASUS-RT-AX82U last year and although most of the time it's great, I've been having a lot of problems with it where it randomly disconnects from 2.4GHz / 5Ghz WIFI and wired LAN devices...
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    Asus AP power saving settings

    looking at buying kwickset wifi lock and the biggest complaint is the battery life. I can easily run a 5volt power cord to it but I'm curious if there are any settings on rt-AX82u I can tweak to lower the wifi power consumption on the lock. I know most of the threads on here are about...
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    WiFi connection problem

    RT-AX68U, fw Merlin 386.4. WiFi connection problem. I don't understand the reasons. I see a successful connection: Mar 1 15:05:21 dnsmasq-dhcp[1489]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.50.22 a0:20:a6:2f:77:57 pzem3 Then many attempts to get the device name: Mar 1 15:06:21 dnsmasq-dhcp[1489]...
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    AX88U/MBA 2020 switching between channels randomly

    Video: https://streamable.com/5nf8k0 I just reset the router to default settings as well, I have no idea what it could be. Has this happened to anyone here?
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    AX86U Dropping on Ethernet and Wifi, Different Devices

    After buying this router last year to solve another lag issue, another issue has been progressively getting worse where devices are randomly and briefly dropping from the internet. It starts off as outgoing packet loss (noticed in VoIP calls, hearing others but not being heard, and in games...
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    Home Automation

    Hi all, I am evaluating Laxone home automation server for our detached property. We prefer connecting remotely through VPN than using a 3rd party cloud. The other alternative is leveraging Thread and Matter (due mid this year) compliant services / products over wifi. Our current set up is -...
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    WiFi unicast, group ciphers and group key update interval for proper operation of IoT devices

    The smart home topic discusses the operation of IoT devices and WiFi router settings. The possibility of enabling "unicast ciphers", "group ciphers" and "group key update interval" is mentioned. Is there a similar thing in the firmware for Asus? On my Asus RT-AX68U with Asuswrt-Merlin 386.4...
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    YazFi Guest Network for WiFi Smart Home Devices

    Hi all, Happy New Year! Making a guest WiFi network for smart devices (Hue lights, Alexa, Google Home etc). Should I enable/disable any of two way to guest, one way to guest or client isolation? I'm not 100% sure I truly understand what they mean. Thanks.
  14. ROBYER1

    ASUS ET8 Roaming Assistant Disconnecting 2 nodes from each other (possible fix)

    This is a tip post as I was noticing my 2 ET8 AiMesh nodes would disconnect randomly from each other. Hope this helps others or comment if it did/you have any tips! I have a setup of 2 ET8 notes and I would notice occasionally I would have the non-router node upstairs disconnecting. In the...
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    Could this help me to get better/stable internet?

    I have a Tenda f3 (V4.0) router i think this is current latest, using it as main router, a wire coming from my isp directly to the modem, isp have a fiber modem near my house from which a ethernet cable attaches to my router (f3), it requires a username and password to access internet (i tried...
  16. Purdue

    WiFi working only on 5 Ghz not 2.4 Ghz

    Hello, I'm struggling with one issue I cannot understand: on my AC68U with FreshTomato, i've successfully set up all the VLAN I could, bridged them, assigned DHCP. Then configured the two main WiFi (2.4 and 5.0 Ghz) and added a couple of Virtual Wireless, as in the picture: Now, please...
  17. dialupfibre

    Getting dial up speeds on fibre - Intel AX210 and Asus AC68U

    Greetings all, I never thought I would take this issue to the forums but this has been driving me totally crazy for the past two days, so any help would be more than appreciated! As the title states, I have a very strange connection problem on my setup: - An old ASUS DSL-AC68U running on...
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    NoDogSplash cross compilation for captive portal page on connecting to WiFi

    I want to install NoDogSplash in an android(version 7.1.2) embedded device which has realteks WiFi module. Target board details: OS: Android Linux Kernel: 3.14.29 Architecture: arm64 Compilation Procedure followed: - Compilation of libmicrohttpd: - ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu...
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    No email with WiFi

    When trying to send email from my iPhone thru my Spectrum router using WiFi, the message gets hung up in my outbox. If I turn WiFi off on the phone and resend the message from my outbox, it goes fine. Any suggestions?
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    WiFi upgrade to work with RT-AC68U?

    Hello all. Looking for advice for boosting my existing wifi. I have fibre to my home, currently on 360mbps down and 75mbps up. My modem is a fibre modem that runs direct to my Asus RT-AC68U. Most of the data hungry devices are wired throughout the house such as PCs, voip phone, PS5, satellite...
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