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    VoIP Strategies

    I would put the VOIP on its own DSL line and have the users on the other line. 1 megabit up isn't a whole lot to work with when there's 20 people.
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    Will I see an appreciable difference upgrading from N66U to AC68U?

    Unless all your current devices are AC devices the answer would be no. If you need better coverage then maybe upgrade to the AC but have the N66 as a repeater to provide needed coverage.
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    QOS User defined priorities

    In theory if the link becomes over-saturated, the connections in the lowest priority tier could be starved. But you would have to stream a lot of HD for that to happen. Whats with the other person? Tell them to knock off their illegal activities or you will cut them off.
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    What DNS do you use with your Asus/Merlin

    Because the router would send out extra queries that it technically did not need to, placing load on those servers that got queried--what I read, not what I advocate. Plus different dns servers are configured differently. One dns server might give you an address to a site, while another blocks...
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    What DNS do you use with your Asus/Merlin

    Well you could configure the router to use all three public dns servers (Google, OpenDNS and your ISP) with the following option in dnsmasq: all-servers dnsmasq will query all three and use the first response it gets back. But this is not considered good practice. This way if one server is...
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    Asuswrt-Merlin 380.58 is now available

    Put this on my N66 and noticed when configuring it that there was no option for preamble type for 5Ghz frequency?
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    [RT-N66U] Slow internet and streaming on Wi-Fi but fast with ethernet

    You could also try reorienting your antennas to see if that will improve your situation.
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    Question on LAN security?

    You can blacklist the devices that you don't want in Firewall -> Network Services Filter. I've never had to do that so I can't even begin to walk you through it.
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    RT-N66R ... preferred firmware? Longtime DD-WRT user.

    I myself am using an older Merlin firmware: 35-4 SDK5. The wifi is stable and performance is good.
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    What router should I buy?

    Yeah, for sure. At 100Mb/s and higher, there really is no need for QoS for downloads, but since cable connections are typically asynchronous, QoS helps uploads while possibly hurting downloads. A full featured firewall like pfSense is probably overkill because the likelihood that you are the...
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    What router should I buy?

    You cold piece together a pfSense box but that would be quite a bit more expensive than a router. But the pfSense box would do much much more, which is a good thing. I've been looking at new hardware for such a box and its in the $600 range.
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    HW acceleration on RT-N66U

    Or you have something else going on that is hogging the CPU cycles thus reducing download throughput.
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    QoS settings help

    What connection speed will you have? If you have something fast, you can probably do without QoS. I'm on Comcast Blast (150/10) and am doing fine without QoS. Also you should shop around for a VoIP provider. There are probably cheaper options out there.
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    Generic DHCP question

    What it means is to reserve an address that is outside of the DHCP pool of addresses, which should be 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254 if you didn't modify the range. This way, DHCP doesn't give out an address that you statically assigned as two devices cannot have the same IP address. What you...
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    Modem side firewall & Router side firewall

    That would depend on the capability of the modem's firewall. Does it also do IPv6? Can you add rules to it? Does it blend?
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    Windows 10 "loses" network device, or something like that

    I've noticed Windows 10 doing something funky with my laptop's wireless. On boot-up wireless connections are not available unless you reboot the machine immediately after booting up. Might be corrupting wireless configs or something.
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    RT-N66U Looses WAN

    What ISP? What model modem? Could also be a problem with those two.
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    pool.ntp.org time not updating

    When the router first boots up is when you should this message because the router itself doesn't have a clock source. It syncs with an NTP server every time it powers up.
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    Help with creating file in JFFS

    Don't forget to format the directory too. Why not just use vi to create it?
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    very slow on 2.4ghz

    Yeah, more than likely the 2.4 channels are crowded because of your new living environment. I too will be in that situation (going from a house to an apartment) soon myself. The only thing I can suggest is to use the 5Ghz channel or tune the 2.4 channel's settings to be more tolerant and...
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