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    YazFi YazFi DHCP lease times

    I'm not worried about the network traffic. Quite the opposite - in my case I tend to use 1 hour lease times which if anything increases DHCP traffic as leases are renewed. There is an existing script that feeds a bunch of information to Home Assistant including DHCP pool usage. That was being...
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    YazFi YazFi DHCP lease times

    One for @Jack Yaz .... I've been playing around with some automations linked to state of the DHCP pool and noticed that the lease times for YazFi configured DHCP pools are hard coded to a day. Instead of hard coded to a day, what would you say to linking the DHCP lease timer to the config in...
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    Asuswrt-Merlin router with 2.5gbps WAN and LAN ports - quick bit of purchase advice, please...?

    So spending higher now to meet current usage isn't the best approach but based on your comments about downloads vs wfh vs streaming, 2.5G WAN and a router that can run gig internally would give you the gig speed for downloads essentially isolating the leftover for the more latency sensitive...
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    Solved Adding own router to Toob

    Not the best in terms of detail but there's a specific reference to Toob and Asus routers on this review. The OCUK forums seemed to have a bit of discussion about Toob and third party routers too so it looks promising. I must admit, your faith in install engineers is better than mine -...
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    Beta Asuswrt-Merlin 388.1 Beta is available for select models

    Looks fine to me. First is the subnet on the isp side with the other being the subnet you're using for your own LAN.
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    UK gov internet scanning

    I saw an article today about the UK government supposedly doing vulnerability scans across ALL UK infrastructure. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/british-govt-is-scanning-all-internet-devices-hosted-in-uk/ https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/scanning-the-internet-for-fun-and-profit...
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    How often do you reboot rt-ac88u?

    It's a bit chicken and egg - you don't know if it will get worse without knowing the root cause. Completely agree it's possible and doesn't make sense but when it comes to software in particular it could be anything. The longer you leave something running the higher the chance you trip over...
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    How often do you reboot rt-ac88u?

    Depends where the bar for availability is set I guess. I figure a 10 minute outage including WiFi recovery for IoT devices at 4am on a Sunday doesn't bother anything critical and it's a regular predictable pattern on any data gathering. (The fact anything wired is on a separate switch to the...
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    How often do you reboot rt-ac88u?

    Possibly a stupid question but would a weekly reboot at some ungodly hour of the morning when everyone is asleep do the job? I'm curious on why the ask for monthly. Appreciate it doesn't get the fancy uptime award but if it does the job on stability for users with the result of 100%...
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    Getting Ready for Black Friday - But Confused (Again)

    For the average consumer, even taking the router class (e.g. AC2900) didn't really help as last I checked it told you max router combined wireless throughput rather than what you would actually see based on dual band/tri band, channel splits etc. Has that improved with the AX class?
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    need a new wifi router - old tech. vs. new?

    Thanks both. I'm fine with no features (for now!) and I certainly have no need for the speed increases that AX can offer. (UK consumer broadband generally topping out at "up to" 1gig makes the various routers with 2.5gig WAN ports pointless here for now.) I'm still dubious on the likelihood of...
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    need a new wifi router - old tech. vs. new?

    This caught my attention as I was going more by EOL information for my Ac88u. So essentially the Ac88u is still on sale but pretty much unsupported? Or at least no further security updates. UK asus site lists March as the last update - ironically, Merlins GPL merge for 386.7 meaning he...
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    Is SmallNetBuilder site still active?

    Not sure what Canada is like but given the typical ISP contract here in the UK, before it turns to a rolling monthly contract, that ties rather well to "marketed product we care about" rather than "stuff still kicking around on our network because people don't want/need/can't afford new product...
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    Is SmallNetBuilder site still active?

    Maybe I'm just too distrusting of ISPs (or mine at least!) after historical problems. Several generations of Virgin Media home hubs were renowned to be pretty ropey for various reasons. Given I'd rather the device do the job it needs to rather than be a talking point of home decor I wasn't sold...
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    Is SmallNetBuilder site still active?

    I'd like to argue this point on the basis that nobody buys a router looking like it was a Star Trek special effects model but unfortunately you're probably not wrong - knowing at least one person who bought a ASUS top end ROG router to fix wifi coverage problems purely because it was expensive...
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    Are there any Asuswrt-Merlin solutions for self-hosting your password manager Vault on the router hardware?

    Looks interesting though I'm not sure I'm sold on the use of the self signed certs for internal traffic it mentions. That still leaves the headache of CA certs on individual devices. I might be missing something in the caddy docs though. Now I've got it configured, the nginx container...
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    Are there any Asuswrt-Merlin solutions for self-hosting your password manager Vault on the router hardware?

    Actually, no. You can get. Letsencrypt cert through domain ownership - the challenge protocol works by amending domain records based on the challenge token given. No public facing website required. A combination of nginx and auto-renewing letsencrypt certs using domain challenge works well for...
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    Terrible write performance

    Just to add to the recommendation from @sfx2000 , the risk factor he refers to is one that has been increasing as disk sizes are increasing. The fact you're running 18TB disks technically means you have a greater chance of a second disk failure during re-build (i.e. catastrophic) than I do with...
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    Real world speed/reliability/distance differences? Worth upgrade AC86U to AX6000 and SB8611? Testing....

    I'd say that article is spot on when it comes to general household usage. Interesting gamers only get a brief reference as many people in the UK I know on gig services do it specifically because of the demands game updates have at the point the gamer wants to play - you don't want to wait half...
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    WOL(WakeOnLan) when local network traffic detected

    @dookei I missed your earlier reply but yes, it would be client side. It works for my setup here but only because anything I care about in the equation is running a Linux install in someway shape or form. (I did years ago have a messy cludge where a samba share bounced to the WOL based NFS mount...
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