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    Suggestions for running Cat5e/Cat6 to rooms in a new house

    If your local building code allows it, I would suggest running one or more 1 inch (25mm) flexible conduits from the location of your switch, to each room in the house. There is no need to pull ethernet cable through at this stage - just pull Cat6 or Cat6a to the rooms where you will need it...
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    User NVRAM Save/Restore Utility (R26.2)

    I was think about this this morning. I too would like to update from 380.68_4 on an RT-AC66U to the latest Merlin on a yet-to-be-purchased RT-AC86U. The pain of transferring the settings is what is puttiing me off buying the new router. I was wondering if it is possible to set up old and new...
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    USB conflicts

    The standard advice elsewhere on the forum is to disconnect all USB drives before rebooting the router. It seems the router tests the file system of the drives and if they are large, it can run out of memory during the start up process.
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    Openvpn - device name resolution over tun?

    I have not studied it in detail, but there seems to be a similar discussion with a possible solution here: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/lack-of-name-resolution-when-using-openvpn-server.44280/ I have not tested the solution proposed, just wanted to draw your attention to the thread.
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    Is it time to replace my RT-AC68U?

    Would the only reason for upgrading be a wish to increase the range of the router? Would the RT-AC86U have better range than your existing RT-AC68U? However a router and its clients have a two-way conversation, and buying a router that "shouts louder" would not increase range, unless the...
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    Help: Networking issues

    You might like to try plugging the ethernet-only laptop into all the other ethernet wall sockets in the house. If it has Internet connectivity from some of them but not others, look for the differences between the two groups of sockets. For example, are the sockets with no Internet...
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    USB drive not showing up in network on PC

    Not sure if this helps, but here goes .... I saw something similar with a USB stick attached to an AC-RT66U. I found the only way to map a drive letter to the USB stick installed in the router was as follows: 1- use a PC to create a folder on the USB stick 2- plug the USB stick into the...
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    2,4 Ghz band module crashes on rt-n66

    Hmm, really needs more information befoe anyone can start to offer ideas. Are the 3 routers in different buidings, or are they in the smae building and close together so they can "see" eachother ? If the are close together, are they connected together ? Are they all configured as routers, or...
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    [SOLVED] Please help with firewall rules for errant daughters devices

    A few months ago I tried to use Parental Control on an Asus RT-AC66U running Merlin 378.56_2. Stupidly, I did it in a hurry without much testing. When the device I had blocked tried to access the Internet "out of hours", it displayed a message which made it very clear why Internet access did...
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    Mirror drives, or whole servers instead?

    @jec6613 You obviously know a lot more about it than I do. Thanks for clariying ! best PB
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    Mirror drives, or whole servers instead?

    There was an (admittedly rather sensationalist) article this week mentioning that SSD has been removed from the latest build of Windows Server 2016. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/18/vanishing_storage_spaces_direct/ From reading the comments to the article, my conclusion was that there...
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    [Beta] Asuswrt-Merlin 382.1 Beta is available

    I was also considering the AC86U as an upgrade path to my three AC66U. If there's no Merlin, then I guess it would be the (much cheaper) AC68U.
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    Enabled HTTPS for remote management, now can't connect locally?

    Reportedly, the health service in Lanarkshire (Scotland) was recently infected with ransomeware. According to the article below, the method of infection was through RDP. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/30/lanarkshire_nhs_infection_named_as_bitpaymer_variant/ Although the article is...
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    Do you feel Asus has abandoned support for the AC66U?

    Running 3 RT-AC66U's here - no problem with 5GHz. Two are still running Merlin 378.56_2 since I haven't got round to updating to a later version. One is already on Merlin 380.67 There is a very vigourous Merlin user community here, so any problems with new builds are found (and fixed) quite...
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    AiCloud versus VPN server

    My VPN is working fine. Perhaps Asus is thinking of a propagation delay between the IP address changing, and the record being updated in myonlineportal.net. I do not know how long this delay might be, and it has not been a problem for me. (Having said that, my IP address changes only...
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    AiCloud versus VPN server

    I decided that I wanted to use myonlineportal.net, but it is not one of the choices on the drop down list in Merlin. To use it directly, I would have had to write a script and I felt I didn't want to spend the time going up the learning curve, at that stage. However, dnsomatic.com is one of...
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    AiCloud versus VPN server

    Another advantage of going the VPN route is that you could set up RDP or (more expensively) Citrix so that you could access and work comfortably from remote locations which have very slow connections. In my previous job I successfully used this arrangement to access an application requiring a...
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    User NVRAM Save/Restore Utility (R26.2)

    Sorry John, you got there first while I was typing :-)
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    User NVRAM Save/Restore Utility (R26.2)

    A few weeks ago someone here clarified that when migrating from one router to another, even a router of identical model, the -MIGR script should be used. (Sorry, I have to leave in a few minutes and don't have time to locate the specific post on the forum.) If I understand correctly, when you...
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    AiCloud versus VPN server

    I looked at a lot of DDNS services, and in the end decided use dnsomatic.com (a standard choice in the Merlin software), which then notifies my IP address to myonlineportal.net. My IP address changes only once every few months, but so far no problems. Total cost per year 1 Euro (or free if I...
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