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    questions about Synology SHR ....

    i would also caution anyone who relies on spindle-based storage, to stay away from SMR hard drives. i have 2 older WD products (a MyBook and a MyCloud), in which both unit's hdd's failed. they put SMR's in them to sell them cheaper. Shingled Magnetic Recording can lead to allocation errors...
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    questions about Synology SHR ....

    thanks for that advice .... one of the things i was interested in knowing about is the ability to create 2 or more RAID volumes with multiple disks installed. not sure where you're looking, but almost all single bay and 2 bay WD NAS's are bottom of the barrel in terms of the NAS industry. does...
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    questions about Synology SHR ....

    understand and noted these points. i keep appropriate # of duplicates of my data for redundancy, but being a home user, eyeballing a server-grade raid setup would be overkill and expensive for me. simple thinking, that a Synology would provide just as good data handling/protection as my...
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    questions about Synology SHR ....

    i currently have what would be considered a barebones NAS (WD EX2 Ultra) .... and I want to migrate to a Synology in order to benefit from advanced RAID features and other features offered by DSM. have some general questions about DSM, and how it treats disks .... that would help me decide...
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    merlin fw update ... AX86U

    wondering if an update will land soon for the AX86U ? The last fw version that merlin put out for this router (386.3_2) is about 3 months old now .... realize there's other fw's he's working on and is very busy .... just asking to see if an update is coming our way some time in the near future.
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    Asus AX router, model ET8 VPN question

    Noticed this thread .... thanks for the info. Concerning settings like RSA Encryption and options in Advanced Settings, what would be your recommendations ?
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    i’m going to plan on another wave of tweaks to my network with this router. would be beneficial to know why some legacy devices that can use 2.4 are not compatible with the ‘primary’ 2.4 broadcast of the AX86U ? that could help with choosing features like smart connect. maybe the reason is...
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    i missed that fine print somewhere in the gui or the manual. thanks
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    bbunge thanks for those suggestions ... will look into them with time. as it stands now it took some decent chunk of my time to do the 'heart transplant' on my network and have all devices seamlessly working for everyone when they woke up this morning. being intermediate with Asus routers...
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    i use a work provided vpn, yes. and it is indeed connecting to the first 2.4GHz guest broadcast because I don't want it having visibility to my LAN. and it was assigned a 192.168.101.x IP .... i have tried to change it's IP and make it binding (in the router) but that doesn't work. wrt the...
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    something else i find concerning .... i have a work computer that i connect to my network. but my LAN IP subnet is different from the popular 192.168.1.x subnet usually used. this work computer connects to my router with an IP of 192.168.x.y (both x and y are between 2 and 254). so far it...
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    i am using entirely new and unique SSID's for this newer router.
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    AX86U 2.4GHz broadcast question

    i recently setup an AX86U to replace an older AC87U. I do not have any AX devices, during setup I chose to use 2.4GHz and 5GHz as separate networks/broadcasts. i noticed almost right away, that older wifi devices like printers, home appliances, older game consoles (that use 2.4GHz WiFi only)...
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    AX86U aggregation

    thank you
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    AX86U aggregation

    in that case, i would opt to use just the 2.5GbE port to connect to the switch. given the faster connection between switch and router that should in theory allow more throughput between the router and my devices connected to the switch … up to the link limit of each device, correct ? or do I...
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    AX86U aggregation

    does the AX86U allow lan aggregation including the 2.5GbE port ? logic: 2.5GbE + 1GbE = more throughput. i have an unmanaged switch with 2.5 ports. initially planning to connect the switch to the 2.5 port on an AX86U to allow for more throughput to devices connected to the switch. my nas has a...
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    IP pool starting and ending .... question about

    thanks all for your feedback and knowledge sharing
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    IP pool starting and ending .... question about

    you got me confused in that you answered “no” but the explanation tells me that the DMZ’d LAN device WILL reveal it’s LAN IP to the outside … ? so if that is correct, then the IP is revealed and a ‘snooper’ or other interest looking at the traffic coming/going with my public WAN IP would know I...
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    IP pool starting and ending .... question about

    thanks all for your input on this. one last thing i want to ask. if i put one LAN device in the DMZ, does the router-assigned device IP address appear to the outside world ?
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    IP pool starting and ending .... question about

    the issue i guess i created for myself is wanting to vary the 3rd and 4th octets according to a use case. i would settle for the /24 bit setup, though not ideal for memory sake and not as easy to memorize as it would if i picked a fixed 3rd octet to assign to device tiers/types. since it's...
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