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    Limiting Time (hours per day) is it possible?

    If you are looking to limit bandwidth, that is reasonably easy. If you are looking to limit access, like with stubborn children or free WiFi, that is not so easy. Some routers offer a feature called "Captive Portal" which may offer what you want.
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    [Fork] Asuswrt-Merlin 374.43 LTS releases (Archive)

    Let us know if it works in practice. IPv6's Privacy Extensions are a potential problem.
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    ER-X: small is beautiful

    @kvic Have you made use of the CLI yet? I have read good things about VyOS's CLI. (It's modeled after Cisco's IOS CLI, I think, which I really enjoy using.) One of my biggest complaints with pfSense is the inability to further tweak things via CLI. Practically everything must be done through...
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    ER-X: small is beautiful

    I am an HFSC addict. I have read all cited papers from HFSC's paper and even all the paper's cited by those papers... The HFSC paper is only a dozen or so pages long, so it may be easier for you to cite a passage that proves that HFSC controls queue depth. I never saw such a passage. I could...
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    ER-X: small is beautiful

    Actually no, that is not a good writeup. They do not even understand the most novel feature of HFSC which is the decoupling of bandwidth and delay by employing HFSC's m1 & d parameters. Calomel says m1 & d set the "initial bandwidth assignment" which is false. That site is not well respected...
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    ER-X: small is beautiful

    To improve download bufferbloat, the most common way is to NEVER allow full use of your connection, which means preemptively limiting your max download speed. It always takes a small amount of time for a remote TCP sender to obey your request to slow down. If your max download rate is reached...
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    ER-X: small is beautiful

    HFSC literally has nothing to do with bufferbloat as it is only a scheduler (it decides the order, not queue depth). During a fully saturating upload, with my pfSense install, my HFSC traffic-shaping setup will have a 600ms ping with CoDel disabled. With CoDel enabled I get 35ms average and 55ms...
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    Do you consider cloud storage like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc a backup solution.

    If you encrypt before uploading or "have nothing to hide" (sarcasm implied), what major problems exist when using cloud services?
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    [Fork] Asuswrt-Merlin 374.43 LTS releases (Archive)

    Most people consider 40Mhz to be a bad idea on 2.4Ghz, especially in a congested WiFi situation like yours. 20/40 is likely fine on 5Ghz.
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    QoS Configuration Help

    I mean that you can only limit the maximum bitrate ("rate-limiting") of all (global) traffic, not individual traffic types. If you are interested in more info about QoS, my favorite intro is http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/qos-tutorial.68795/. It focuses on the "tomato" OS, but...
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    QoS Configuration Help

    Without a way to rate-limit specific things like YouTube and HTTP below your max download rate, those services always have the capability of saturating your download and causing latency/ping spikes. Simple priority-based QoS only allows global rate-limiting, which will not help your situation.
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    AC RT88U guest wifi access still able to ping

    Is the device in AP-mode or router-mode? I think AP-mode is unable to do client isolation (but it may be able to be manually fixed via CLI).
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    QoS Configuration Help

    What sort of traffic is clogging up your connection? For example: Netflix, P2P/torrents, cloud backups/uploads. The QoS settings you show seem too limited to offer much help though, so be ready for that...
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    Best choice for access point?

    Why are you using the device with the worser WiFi as an AP? and I would even say that DD-WRT has better routing capabilities. I would switch the device's jobs; e3000 as router and 87u as AP.
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    Please report back on your general experience with the ER-X. Plenty of us are very interested in that device. :)
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    Router advice

    You are right gary. There is no solution to your problem.
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    Router advice

    These things are not mutually exclusive. I think our primary confrontation is that it these monitoring solutions are not point-n-click, which is a valid problem. The netflow analyzer I mentioned is not a simple installation (for me), but I am a "power-user" at best, so these enterprise...
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    Router advice

    I think you are over-estimating the usefulness of L7 firewalls when encryption is used. "Normal" firewalls are useful enough.
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    Router advice

    Look at NASA's FlowViewer, a netflow analyzer which works with anything that can export netflow metadata. Yes, it can view real-time traffic (and I used it with pfSense). https://sourceforge.net/p/flowviewer/wiki/Home/
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    Enforce https in my home network to all devices

    There are many ways to "block" (or bypass) and ISPs cannot control all of them. China, for example, is nothing like your UK scenerio...
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