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    Just upgraded to RT-AC66U, price dropped, should I get something else?

    If all you're going to do is surf the web, watch some streaming video, listen to some music, and transfer files back and forth from a basic NAS (connected not to a USB port, but to one of the LAN ports), the RT-AC66U will be more than sufficient to handle your needs. If you are a "set and...
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    L&LD: Here's something to get you started: https://cve.mitre.org/ and this: https://nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures and this: https://danielmiessler.com/study/vulnerability-database-resources/
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    I think sfx2000 misspoke; Asus was previously slapped by the FCC, not the FTC for its sale of routers that transmitted signals at powers that exceeded permitted levels. As we all know, Asus was required to change its firmware to prevent this (and hence we have all manner of people here trying...
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    I see a common thread of misunderstanding expressed by some here about the purpose of the FTC and how it operates: First, prosecution, by its very nature is "selective", i.e., someone has to complain first to get the process initiated. While Merlin has pointed out numerous other examples of...
  5. J

    No access to certain sites through the router

    The problem you are experiencing may be entirely unrelated to your router at all. It could be a problem with the site you are trying to access not using SHA-256 certificates, especially if you're using Chrome as your browser of choice. You can read about the main issue here...
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    Problems with RT-AC66U and HP M680DN

    I presume you're referring to your printer waking up. I'm sorry, but I have no idea and am unable to answer further. Perhaps HP can provide some info, or someone else on the board will have some helpful info.
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    Double NAT

    I'm sort of curious about the statement that there are apps that have trouble or which "are already struggling to work properly through a single layer of NAT." I may be the outlier here, but I have never experienced any app that has had any difficulty or struggled to work properly with a...
  8. J

    Double NAT

    While already mentioned in this thread, in all fairness to Gibson, the page from GRC.com regarding double-nat that was posted upthread is really old, and doesn't really properly explain what Gibson was recently proposing regarding running three routers, i.e., a single "dumb" router, and creating...
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    RT-AC68U DHCPREQUEST(br0) DHCPACK(br0) ???

    Colin: Right you are. Didn't catch the digital time read outs in his post first time around. So if the DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPREQUEST calls are unrelated to the network map, what are they related to? I believe you said above that they are caused by mobile devices checking for emails, and other...
  10. J

    RT-AC5300 vs RT-AC3200

    Trebuin: My setup is almost the same. Two-story home, cable modem (SB6183) located in study upstairs. AC3200 router upstairs, and downstairs, two AC66U's, one running as a repeater, and the other as a media bridge, along with one other bridge (a WD AC1200 Bridge). All bridges and the...
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    RT-AC68U DHCPREQUEST(br0) DHCPACK(br0) ???

    @ColinTaylor: You may be right, but I believe the network map issue causes these inquiries more often than once an hour. My AC3200 running Merlin 380.57 at home usually has anywhere from 16-28 devices connected (depending on who is doing what), and devices that are not being used generally poll...
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    Problems with RT-AC66U and HP M680DN

    As Merlin notes, it's a "known issue" in both his and Asus' current firmware. Until his new code comes out, I think your best bet is to manually configure the "sleep mode" schedule on your printer, so that it won't wake up during periods when you know you will not be using the printer. See...
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    RT-AC68U DHCPREQUEST(br0) DHCPACK(br0) ???

    My understanding is that this is known issue, and is caused by the network map polling for devices. As Sanna1967 says, you can hide the DHCP queries from showing up in your log, but the router will keep polling for devices anyway.
  14. J

    Fork 380.57 HGG-FINAL

    With all due respect, I find that sentiment to be utterly nonsensical. You say he's offering a "private build"? I don't think that is consistent with the history of what he's done: First, he made his FW available the general public via links that were formerly available here at SNB; then...
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    Proper setup:Routers, switches, wireless

    You say you don't want to hear about court cases (and yes, I'm a lawyer so not reading the law or being aware of case authority interpreting and applying the license is no excuse....as in "ignorance of the law" does not excuse a willful violation), but the GPL does impose restrictions on what...
  16. J

    Bad UI Design Sabotages Security of ASUS SoHo Routers

    It may provide no advantage, but it doesn't provide any disadvantage either.... And with all due respect, an enabled service that merely provides redundancy doesn't necessarily create a performance hit.
  17. J

    Bad UI Design Sabotages Security of ASUS SoHo Routers

    Not even then,IMHO. No danger running multiple hardware firewalls in that scenario, and no reason to disable them either.
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    Bad UI Design Sabotages Security of ASUS SoHo Routers

    Other than perhaps in a testing environment, why would one ever turn off the firewall? The RT models that the "security" guy with his hair on fire is writing about, are, for the most part, not targeted for professionals, but for consumers. So why not just remove the ability of consumers to...
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    Router behind router - how to prevent second router clients from accessing first router clients

    I think so. But I'm not sure that it would even be necessary to implement VPN/IPsec to the gateway at all. When you create the two completely independent LANS, they can't talk to each other, not only at an IP level, but also at the Ethernet level, which is why Steve Gibson thinks the...
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    Router behind router - how to prevent second router clients from accessing first router clients

    Nullity, My only point was that as Steve Gibson explains in greater detail in his podcast, the three-router method of isolating independent LANs is easy, cheap, and it just works, and it would achieve exactly what Bobby is looking for as expressed in his original post. Obviously though, as...
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