Recent content by smitbret

@ ColinTaylor Thank you for the tips. I went through and checked all of these things. I did not know that about RDP. I have tweaked and prodded to the point that I have finally gotten the ports to open..... at least I think so. I have installed the media server software on two different PCs...

Everything is working great on my LAN at home, however I am trying to set up my media server to work outside of my LAN but I am smashing my head against a (fire)wall a this point. The issue isn't just limited to my media server or any one PC, either. I simply cannot get the router to open any...

I have used a C7, AC-68U or R7000 as my primary router for the last 3 years or so and I can tell you that unless there is a specific feature that you need from the R7000 or AC-68U then the C7 is just as good as either of those. Any difference range and throughput isn't something that I could...

Nah, that's pretty consistent with what I have experienced in messing around with it so far. Looks like it's going back. Thanks for the assist.

So I would need to flash the firmware to an R7000, first? I tried that and it wouldn't take it.

OK, follow up question. I am very newbish when it comes to alt firmware. I can't seem to find a comprehensive list of routers that can run Tomato. My impression is that if the R7000 and R6900 share the same Broadcom chipset and relatively little differs between the two then I should be able...

Haven't bricked it, yet. I may just return it and try a Linksys EA6900 for the same money then I can keep a clear conscience if attempting to flash it to an R7000 had some bad results.

I have been looking for a router that can run AsusWRT-Merlin firmware that is not an Asus RT-AC68x. Reason, I had a T-Mobile CellSpot that I flashed to stock and loved that I could set the router as the Master Browser on my network. It made file-sharing among my Windows machines so much...

I have been using T-Mobile's CellSpot router that I hacked and flashed back to stock AC68U. I love the AsusWRT firmware because it allows me to set the router as the NETBIOS Master Browser. So, I am stuck on Asus unless there is a different router that can be setup that way. I dropped...

Are the files being shared over a wireless network connection? They all seem pretty slow if we are talking Mb/s and not realistic if we are talking MB/s. An unRAID system should run 480-640Mb/s with a modern HDD, it wouldn't really be choked by the Atom CPU. I would think that should be the...

No concern for the insecurity of having everyone on the same network? This sounds like a bad idea for a multi tenant setup. I would think you'd be better off dropping a WAN ethernet connection to each residence and letting them be responsible for their own router and LAN.

For AP use, either one is probably overkill. Save some $$$: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUSDVBQ/?tag=snbforums-20

Even if you could, you wouldn't want to. Plex transcoding requires a pretty powerful CPU and that ARM is nowhere near being up to the job.

First, the questions.... Is there a router, other than Western Digital MyNet series, that has an option to force the router to be the Master Browser in a network? If not, where would I find information on setting up a RaspPi to be always on and whose sole function is to control the Master...

If I'm not too late, I'd just like to throw in my vote for this one (TP-Link Archer C7): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUSDVBQ/?tag=snbforums-20 I have used one as my primary router for about 20 months now and it has been nothing short of solid the entire time. I had been curious about the...