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    Can't access 192.168.100.1 when connected through my ASUS AX Router

    I am not sure as I don't remember. It has been at least a year since I installed Pfsense. There was a tick box when you installed Pfsense that would allow it. Looking at the firewall rules it is blocking all private IP addresses so you could add a rule above the blocking rules to allow IP...
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    Yet another question about VLAN w/ RT-AX88U Pro in AP mode.

    I bet that old switch is loud and runs hot. When I googled it showed 2 800 watt power supplies.
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    Yet another question about VLAN w/ RT-AX88U Pro in AP mode.

    That is true. I asked what layer 3 switch you were using?
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    Yet another question about VLAN w/ RT-AX88U Pro in AP mode.

    This is all layer 2 stuff. Your original diagram has a layer 3 switch labeled on it. A VLAN is layer 2 until you assign a network IP. Once you assign a network then you need a router or layer 3 switch.
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    External antennas on the likes of AC86U, is that the magic for range?

    You are living in a fantasy world, not a real one.
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    Please explain multiple APs, mesh, roaming, handoff, and broadcast frequencies

    Mesh is a redundancy system. It has been changed by consumer router companies to mean wireless backhaul systems. It is no longer a redundancy system because they push the wireless to the limits and use it that way. It needs to be on the same channel to support redundancy which does not work...
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    Tabletop SMB APs?

    Cisco publishes radiation patterns for their APs.
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    Can't access 192.168.100.1 when connected through my ASUS AX Router

    Pfsense now blocks all private IP addresses from the firewall to the WAN side so maybe ASUS does also. I guess they only use the WAN IP. You can turn this off if you want. But it is on by default now. So, 192.168.100.1 will not pass the firewall by default.
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    Yea, you can't match small business APs for performance when it comes to multiple APs. This is what they were designed to do. A wireless router was designed to work alone. They are trying to patch it to work with more than 1. It does not work well.
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    Tabletop SMB APs?

    Personally, I think table units with big antennas look ugly. I think a nice ceiling mount looks good and blends in. And is out of the way on the ceiling. Adding cable to the ceiling is much easier than walls. You just punch a hole in the ceiling and run the cable.
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    External antennas on the likes of AC86U, is that the magic for range?

    So not published. I also read where people are losing connections because they have a lot of IoT devices, not hundreds. Down around 50 or 60.
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    Need help setting up WiFi access in Office

    When you get a lot of cables because you have a lot of users it gets much harder than home. When I worked we used all Cisco enterprise networking equipment. I only setup 1 office after I retired for 19 users with IP phones and I used all Cisco small business equipment. Nowadays, I would use...
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    Need help setting up WiFi access in Office

    How many users? Do you have local servers? Are you all cloud based? How many wired connections and how many Wi-Fi users? Do you need IP phones at their desks? If you have more than 20 users, clients not devices, then you need a pro. ASUS skills won't do.
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    What it sounds like to me is the ASUS is trying to match small business APs that we have had all along. They are just trying to come up to specs to match business APs. And they are still not there today, maybe in the future.
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    3 pack ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 vs. 3 AX86U?

    I think the higher power POE makes for a better AP also.
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    External antennas on the likes of AC86U, is that the magic for range?

    But is that actual talking devices or connected devices? There is a big difference.
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    Using pfSense with a L3 core switch

    Interesting. Yes, if you block them on the WAN side then China will receive the packet and it will be blocked on the return from China. So, yes you really need to block on the LAN side so they do not receive a packet. In the old days I tried to blocked China with ACLs. I had a couple pages...
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    Another thing about using 2 APs that people keep forgetting is that you can use 2 radio channels for IOT devices at the same time whereas a single wireless router can only have 1 2.4GHz active talker at a time so you have a 50% performance boost in active talkers. This also beats mesh as mesh...
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    3 pack ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 vs. 3 AX86U?

    I have now 3 Cisco 150ax 2x2 APs. I started with 2 Cisco 581 4x4 AC APs. I replaced my 2 581s in the exact positions with my AX APs. They actually had less range in my house through the walls. The 2 things that stand out to me are my old 581 APs were 4x4 and used higher POE power requirement.
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    CakeQOS CakeQOS for Gaming?

    Back in the old DSL days 6meg was it and you constantly were hitting the limit so Cake would have been good. But you still are going to drop packets when you hit your limit.
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