Recent content by RMerlin

Personally I run Plex Server on my QNAP TS-464. That would be the direct successor to the TS-453E. I'm quite happy with it. My Plex client is a Shield TV Pro. Before that, I had an Asustor, but I wasn't using Plex back then. Initially I ran XBMC/Kodi on the Asustor itself. When they...

There's nothing of this on the GT-BE19000AI.

What AI specifically? It's just a marketing term to denote the presence of an NPU that allows on device inference. The router does not connect to any external LLM.

In summary, stop trusting AI chatbots... The CPU and wifi SoCs are the same (BCM4916 CPU, BCM6726 wifi). So no, the performance won`t be different. The NPU has nothing to do with either of these. It's currently used by Frigate for its video image recognition, for instance. I suspect it`s...

You say that as if Asus was a team of three persons who can only work on one thing at a time. Their team is large enough that they can even continue to provide security updates to devices that they themselves marked as being End of Life almost two years ago. That should tell you a thing about...

Might be because it needs to scan locally available networks, which is typically a location service.

Tuya's wifi uses cheap junk. I have a pair of Tuya smart powerbars that keep disconnecting and reconnecting 2-3 times a day, sometimes one of them end up connected as 802.11g instead of 802.11n, requiring a power cycle. They are the only devices on my network that do that, even my Roomba...

if using ProtonVPN it might be worth considering switching to WireGuard for better performance. Their WG implementation works very well within Asuswrt-Merlin, it's what I use for 24/7 VPN testing here on a guest network. I have 47 days of uptime on my main router, and that includes that VPN...

You guys might remember WinFi, a really nice Wifi analysis tool for Windows that was provided a ton of extra info not found in other tools, such as channel utilisation or 802.11 extension report. The author went MIA around the time he was supposed to release V2, with a timebomb causing V1 to...

The webui will display everything returned by OpenVPN's status command.

A link dropping to 10 Mbps usually indicates a device going into sleep mode, so nothing abnormal there. It goes to the lowest possible speed as it doesn`t need more than that to just listen for WOL packets.

No you don't. I recommend you do some reading on what a VPN is, and how it works first. Your goal is to configure a VPN server on the router, and then you use a VPN client on your computer to remotely connect to it. This has nothing to do with a paid VPN service provider.

They already launched the BCM6718 back in October, so that's a second wave of WIfi 8 products from them, including the main CPU/SoC.

The only way you can prevent the use of Icloud Private Relay is to use a DNS server that will backhole the canary domain. If you use DNSDirector, that means using Cleanbrowsing-2. If you use anything else, it has to be on the WAN page, but additionnaly you must also enable "Prevent client auto...

Cleanbrowsing-2 blackholes Apple's canary domain, which is why the description says it also prevents VPN/proxy usages (Apple Relay is really a VPN): $ dig @185.228.168.168 mask.icloud.com ; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.20.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> @185.228.168.168 mask.icloud.com ; (1 server found) ...