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    DNSSEC DNS on RT-AX86U Pro causing some websites not to load properly

    If I use Quad9 DoT or Cloudflare DoT, that site loads perfectly fine with or without DNSSEC support enabled on my AX86U Pro. The only time that site doesn’t load properly is when using my ISP’s DNS with DNSSEC support enabled on my router. 1. Quad9 DoT with DNSSEC enabled = site loads properly...
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    Quad 9 WAN DNS Settings

    Glad to hear you've sorted out your issue. Hopefully your experience with Quad9's performance is better than mine, and that your ISP is routing you to Quad9's closest resolver to you. I'm located in Toronto and while my ISP would route me to Quad9's Toronto POP most of the time, sometimes I...
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    Quad 9 WAN DNS Settings

    OP, I had your exact setup (plus DNS Director’s Global Redirection set to “Router”) a few weeks ago and everything worked fine.
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    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 3004.388.7 is now available

    One thing I wish Asus would implement is an “AC/AX” option for the 5GHz band to prevent N-only clients from connecting. Currently, the options are Auto, AX only, Legacy, and N/AC/AX mixed. I know you can just force all N clients to use the 2.4 band by separating SSIDs (which is what I’m doing)...
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    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 3004.388.7 is now available

    Same here. Incredibly solid performance on my AX86U Pro.
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    Perhaps… But all of my 5GHz-capable clients are less than two years old. And my router is an AX86U Pro…
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    This is interesting. If the article linked below is to be believed, it looks like max transmit power for UNII-1 used to be 200mW but the government changed it in 2017 and it’s now 1W (just like UNII-3). Having said that, if I use channels 36-48, there’s a noticeable degradation in range across...
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    I’m in Toronto (Canada). Should be 200mW for channels 36-48 and 1W for 149-161.
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    Understood :)
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    But locking it to 160 also means using one of the lower channels (36-48) around these parts. And those lower channels have significantly less transmit power, resulting in poorer coverage. Locking to 80 and also locking to one of the upper channels (149-161) would provide a better balance of...
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    @sfx2000 - that’s interesting. So if individual clients can dynamically adjust channel bandwidth, I’m curious as to why even use the “20/40/80” option on the router? Why leave it up to the router to dynamically adjust the channel for ALL clients when individual clients can do this themselves...
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    I believe it’s the router that selects the channel’s bandwidth when it’s set to 20/40 (for 2.4GHz) and 20/40/80/(160) for the 5GHz band, but I’ll defer to the experts to chime in and confirm. Up to you if you want to keep 160 enabled or not, but my experience with it enabled is that it was far...
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    @jayd - correct re the 2.4 band…leave that locked to 20MHz. For the 5GHz band, you can try locking it to 80MHz and see how that goes for a while. But if your area is congested, I’d suggest leaving it at 20/40/80.
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    5GHz channel bandwidth - "20/40/80" vs "80"

    Been using a fixed 80MHz for my 5GHz band for almost two weeks and everything has been working great. I live in a detached home (corner lot) so I don’t have any interference from neighbours.
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    Smart Band Steering

    Perhaps I missed it (apologies if I did), but why not just use two different SSIDs for 2.4 and 5? Then, for the devices that should only connect to 2.4, connect them to the 2.4 SSID (and “forget” the 5GHz network if still connected); and for the devices that should only connect to 5, connect...
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    Smart Band Steering

    +1 I’ve been running separate 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks (i.e. different SSIDs) for years and everything is rock solid. The 2.4GHz band is only for my IoT devices (cameras, doorbell, thermostat, etc). Everything else (all my bandwidth-heavy devices like iPhones, laptops, and Roku sticks) are on...
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    DNS pointing to a Kazakstan server: anyone seen this?

    That’s why I like my ISP’s DNS too…the performance is unmatched. It’s just a shame they don’t (and likely never will) support DoT.
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    DNS pointing to a Kazakstan server: anyone seen this?

    Yes. But I suspect EDNS is less private since I’m assuming additional data gets sent to the authoritative servers for more accurate geo-locating? Out of curiosity, what DNS resolver are you using?
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    DNS pointing to a Kazakstan server: anyone seen this?

    That’s Google DNS. I was talking about Cleanbrowsing. When I was using their service, my pings to Google.ca would spike and I was routed to Piscataway. I’ve never used Google DNS and likely never will. As I said before, I trust them even less than my ISP.
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    DNS pointing to a Kazakstan server: anyone seen this?

    Thanks. I tried Cleanbrowsing before but found their performance a bit lacking. Pings to Google would spike to over 120ms. And I was always routed to their Piscataway server in NY/NJ. I don’t want to use Google because I just don’t trust them to not collect and retain my data. I trust them less...
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