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    Advice on buying new router

    If you want high-end hardware like that, I think you'd be nuts to get an AIO router. Get a wired-only router and some wifi APs. The router will be good for years if not decades; the APs not so much.
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    Least expensive wired-only gigabit router? (TP-Link Festa FR205? Others?)

    TP-Link do not have a reputation for long-lived device support. If "it's way past EOL" is a top-of-mind concern for you, I'd suggest shopping elsewhere. Omada is the same company, but it's their business-focused division, and that product line has better street cred on this point. Other brands...
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    Why is the ethernet speed on my phone faster than my laptop when they are plugged into the same network with the same cable?

    I've yet to see a USB-to-ethernet gizmo that didn't have random performance issues. It's possible that your problem traces to one of the configurable settings --- I'm eyeing "EEE: Enabled" in particular --- but I don't have useful advice beyond frobbing them to see what happens.
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    Best 600m2 3 floor mesh system for good coverage

    You should not expect that brand X APs will have noticeably better coverage than brand Y APs. The limiting factors here are the laws of physics and the regulatory limits on transmit power, and those are the same for everybody. What you need if you have coverage problems is more APs. I concur...
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    Need help with WDS Bridge Setup.

    Hm, "randomized MAC address" does seem like it could be related, given the comments in those articles about how WDS works at the MAC-address level not the SSID level.
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    Need help with WDS Bridge Setup.

    TBH I'm surprised that that setup works at all. WDS was never standardized, so it'd be very hit-or-miss whether it works across vendors. This old SNB article (sadly now overstuffed with ads) goes into the problems with WDS. It does have some hints for ameliorating things, which you could try...
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    UPS to protect ONT, router?

    Yeah, APC makes good gear. I'm currently using several APC Back-UPS Pro BR1500MS2 units, but those might be overkill for what you're describing. Or not. What you need to ask yourself is how long you want the UPS to keep things running in a prolonged outage. At a rough guess, a 1500VA unit...
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    Asus AiMesh technology 802.11kv detected but no 802.11r

    Since my last post in this thread, I've switched to UniFi APs, and I'm interested to see that they do claim to support 802.11r, whether or not you're using RADIUS authentication. Re-reading wikipedia's article on 802.11r, it seems like there is some gain to be had by parallelizing some of the...
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    What's a good NON-Asus router to replace a GT-AX6000?

    In fairness, that reputation applies to their consumer gear. I gather that Omada (their business-oriented division) has better support practices.
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    What's a good NON-Asus router to replace a GT-AX6000?

    A plausible alternative to Omada is UniFi. I see their U6-PLUS model in stock in their UK store for £79, so you could get two and still be under budget ... or at least on budget after you add a couple of PoE power injectors, if you don't want to spring for a PoE-capable switch. A hardware...
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    Best CAT cable to block RFI and EMI?

    Run a long ping series between two machines on opposite ends of the cable. If you do see drops, you then have to move on to identifying what's dropping them; it still might not be the cable's fault. (A lot of gear treats ping packets as low-priority traffic.)
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    Effect of security cameras on LAN

    VLANs won't help you here, in fact they add (a tiny amount of) network overhead. If you can plug all the cameras and the NVR into the same switch, that would work to keep the traffic off the rest of your network. There's a separate discussion to be had about whether you want to isolate the...
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    How to interpret iPerf3 results?

    Nonetheless, both Microsoft and the iperf3 authors are telling you this is unsupported. You should not be astonished if it's not working. I looked through the iperf3 FAQ and found an interesting section "TCP throughput drops to (almost) zero during a test, what’s going on?", which seems to...
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    How to interpret iPerf3 results?

    Oh, that does ring a bell ... [ googles ] ... Here it is: Three Reasons Why You Should Not Use iPerf3 on Windows. I don't have a lot of use for Microsoft's idea that they can be an exception to everything and don't have to support standards, but nonetheless this probably tells you why you're...
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    How to interpret iPerf3 results?

    Exactly. The other problem is that the client side reports physically impossible transfer rates (many Gbps) for those first two seconds. Since we know the client side is sending in this test, a possible interpretation of the client numbers is that it was simply stuffing data into kernel-owned...
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    How to interpret iPerf3 results?

    Those iperf3 results seem seriously broken. What you should expect on a simple ethernet connection is pretty much rock-solid-steady throughput for the whole run, except maybe a bit of ramp-up behavior at the start, and possibly some wonkiness from a fractional-second interval at the end...
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    AT&T residential fiber's "Passthrough" mode and public IPs...

    What actual problem are you trying to solve?
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    MOCA 2.5 Help Needed - Why Are my Speeds Slow in 1 Direction?

    I've not opened it up to confirm, but the spec sheet says i226-V.
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    Did I set up my home network correctly?

    Sure, I didn't intend to imply that CPU speed is irrelevant. Only that you can't compare two routers strictly on CPU speed if you don't know what hardware acceleration circuitry they have.
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    iPhone on Omada APs

    Could just be a mirage: RSSI numbers tend to bounce around a little. But assuming it's real --- what are you measuring there, the AP's RSSI for the garage end, or the garage device's RSSI for the AP? What is the garage device anyway? @degrub's idea of reflections is plausible. I'm also...
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