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  1. Rolo

    Smart lights Blubs Using Home Wiring

    This forces these to the cloud rather than having the native device controllers talk locally. Personally, I want my stuff to still work during an Internet outage if at all possible and it doesn't make these any more secure or manage traffic any better. What am I missing?
  2. Rolo

    Smart lights Blubs Using Home Wiring

    "Better" in what way? You have to define it. Lower frequencies have better range and penetration, which is what you want for objects housed in walls all over the place. Additionally, higher frequencies require exponentially more power and have tighter tolerances, which means higher cost with...
  3. Rolo

    What do you think would be the best solution for doorbell?

    Accessible via the Internet was the OP's requirement. Your router is on the Internet, as is your firewall. What's your point? A view of the user's driveway is already publicly accessible, no hacking required...
  4. Rolo

    What do you think would be the best solution for doorbell?

    Ring Video Doorbell 2 Wasserstein Weatherproof Solar Charger Mount for Ring Video Doorbell 2 You can toggle ring alerts and motion alerts independently and you can set the motion detector's range and 3 zones (left/center/right) It is accessible via the Internet through a web browser, the Ring...
  5. Rolo

    Smart lights Blubs Using Home Wiring

    Alexa already uses the Internet. Unless you're only using the Alexa for Windows app on a wired PC and not any of the echo devices or Alexa app on a smartphone, Alexa uses WiFi. The only "home wiring" here is power and messaging protocols over powerlines is a horrible idea and wouldn't be any...
  6. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    Personal attacks and appeals to authority do not an argument make Firmware is the problem; exchanging it won't fix that unless I "exchange" it for a different make entirely like the other guy you're nit-picking did Again, you aren't getting the whole data-point thing: your not having a problem...
  7. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    You're confounding the terms "throughput" and "performance" and are only using one data point Performance includes stability and reliability, not just speed and not just in a lab but real, actual performance The throughput (or even performance) of this router is zero when it's spontaneously...
  8. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    Anyone know if there is a way to have the router's syslogd write to USB storage? I've been using Visual Syslog Server but I don't want to keep the PC awake to log entries.
  9. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    Layin' it on a little thick, aren't we? Unless you have an actual schematic of or disassembled that unit, you have no way of knowing if that's a mechanical switch or not. Don't forget different hardware revisions, so yours may not match his.
  10. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    Except that a proper power-cycle is to power off, unplug it, hit the power button ON for a moment to discharge capacitors, then power off and reconnect power and then power it on
  11. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    He is far from the only one.
  12. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    32738 was a bad idea for me. Not long after flashing and power cycling, it crashed. 21140 had been stable. I also didn't appear to have 5GH-2 anymore (first time) since no devices connected to it (I have all three channels in SmartConnect). Flashing back to 21140 and my devices appeared on...
  13. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    You can check the router's uptime in the "System Log" tab in the web UI. The app might have it also. Additionally, you can SSH login and use the "uptime" command. I stopped buying Asus PC components and laptops in 2006 because they started making junk. I almost didn't buy this router for...
  14. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    It's not "stupid" since the GT is a completely different CPU architecture than all other models.
  15. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    Router says "The router cannot connect to ASUS server to check for the firmware update. After reconnecting to the Internet, go back to this page and click Check to check for the latest firmware updates." when trying to update it. It's not on this download page either...
  16. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    What benefit(s) do you expect to get over your current setup?
  17. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    So I understand: your objective is to get full strength signal everywhere...? Is that necessary? (versus having an adequate signal everywhere) A consideration: you have 8 radios competing with each other in addition to whatever your neighbors are using, so that may diminish throughput...
  18. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    I can't fathom any reason to do this: you're bottlenecking the two GT5300s through a router with fewer radios and a fraction of the processing power. Most likely--though you'd have to experiment--one GT will be on the 86's 2.4GHz channel (which may be better anyway if the 2.4GHz signal does...
  19. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    Can you be more specific/descriptive?
  20. Rolo

    ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 (Owners)

    They definitely improved SmartConnect with 648 firmware; I couldn't use it prior to this firmware and am using it now. You should test the powerline adapter between two PCs (there's a free throughput test, "NetStress", IIRC) first to get an idea of how they perform and then plug them into the...
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