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  1. JoeHz

    Is Unifi worth the upgrade?

    For most people, yes. When it comes to home networking, I have NEVER ever been most people. I was always pushing the limits of high end consumer gear to the point I ran Netware 3.12 in my apartment in the 90s. When we bought our home (still pre-wifi), the very first thing we did was have the...
  2. JoeHz

    Is Unifi worth the upgrade?

    One of the things I found was that I was demanding a bit too much in the way of features of my old RT-AC86U for the amount of memory it had on board (it could do all of the things, just only for a while until someone's stray memory leak ate it all). So yeah, I found that problem too, but there...
  3. JoeHz

    Is Unifi worth the upgrade?

    Gotta be honest here, I was thrilled with Asus and AiMesh until the day I wasn't. What killed it for me was an older AC device I relegated into AIMesh duties stripped off VLAN identifiers from the packets it was passing on. This is an unacceptable failure mode for any product. Unmanaged...
  4. JoeHz

    Move from RT-AC88U to what?

    GNP will eventually work quite well I think. Just the new features GNP offer end with at router or mesh node that is running 3006. Older Asus models will limit you by the number of networks they can share, and (if you see my experience in a recent thread) will also try, but silently fail to...
  5. JoeHz

    VLAN Issue/Sanity Check Appreciated

    The DreamMachine SE was on order before you posted that, but thank you for trying to help.
  6. JoeHz

    VLAN Issue/Sanity Check Appreciated

    I know I won't be pushing Ubiquiti to the edge of its featuresets. They have customers doing far more complicated stuff than what I would be doing. Conversely, anyone who is using AsusWRT_Merlin is, by definition, doing things with their Asus routers that Asus is okay with them doing, provided...
  7. JoeHz

    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 3006.102.5 is now available

    Just dirty upgraded and I still have issues with DNSDirector (or not using DNSDirector) where my guest networks have to have their DNS Servers explicitly listed or they cannot resolve names. It's worth mentioning that my DNS is defined by running the NextDNS.io CLI, so this might be their bug...
  8. JoeHz

    Small (very small) NAS

    Isn't everything? You can not like it all you want, but you can't redefine the term. NAS == Network Attached Storage.
  9. JoeHz

    VLAN Issue/Sanity Check Appreciated

    In my case, I can. Mesh is a nice-to-have feature for me, but if I have to go AP only to get my VLAN functionality working, I will. If this means I have to buy new product that supports VLAN, I'll do that too. But under no circumstances would I go back to the manufacturer that forced that...
  10. JoeHz

    VLAN Issue/Sanity Check Appreciated

    Of Ubiquiti products to soon-to-be former Asus Customers? Why yes. Yes, it does. I am on record that the RMerlin firmware is the only reason I have any loyalty to Asus products. It provides the functionality I want. Planned Obsolescence as a way to sell more product is not a very good...
  11. JoeHz

    Small (very small) NAS

    I can buy that it's not recommended bc there are better ways to do this, but this is literally the definition of a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
  12. JoeHz

    Small (very small) NAS

    What router do you have? Many have a USB attachment on them. My first baby NAS was an old hard drive put into an enclosure and attached it to my Asus RT-AC86U. The router itself made it available over SMB to windows devices. Doesn't get that much simpler than that, but it did use memory on the...
  13. JoeHz

    VLAN Issue/Sanity Check Appreciated

    To be precise, I've never installed YazFi anywhere. I was simply hoping it would fix this problem if put on the 3004 firmware router/aimesh node. What I observed was that the smart plug had no issues connecting with strong signal strength to the iot network wherever it was, but when connected...
  14. JoeHz

    VLAN Issue/Sanity Check Appreciated

    We just took the plunge on home automation with some Amazon Echo devices and KASA smart plugs. 1) So I went and created an IoT network in GuestNetworkPro with its own VLAN ID and subnet and discovered a hiccup. The plugs all worked fine when they were connected to the main router (An...
  15. JoeHz

    Security -- Beating to Quarters on DSM 7

    Yeah, I think a VPN for the people who need it is appropriate. The fact it's only happened once is a pretty good indicator of it not being low hanging fruit. I figured I'd have found out immediately if it was a problem but it actually took over 18 months.
  16. JoeHz

    Security -- Beating to Quarters on DSM 7

    Yeah, I see router attacks all the time, and I don't even know if Windows Popup messages are a thing anymore but they were pervasive, but Synology aimed attacks seem to be new (at least for me). This is the first time in opening that port 18 months ago that I've gotten an automated login bot...
  17. JoeHz

    Security -- Beating to Quarters on DSM 7

    I just got a mega bleep ton of login attempts alerted to me this morning. Someone from Lausanne Switzerland 179.43.145.42, but it appears to be a VPN originating from privatelayer.com. Check your login attempts folks. And disable the default accounts.
  18. JoeHz

    Help replacing ISP provided modem/router

    I'm aware of Omada. It's just targeted at a different market than the OP asked for. I mean, how many users new to SNB should be going straight to that level of product? My point is that nobody goes for the consumer TP-link stuff in their homes and is proud of the decision. And if they need...
  19. JoeHz

    Help replacing ISP provided modem/router

    To be brutally honest, I'm just trying to address the OP's concerns, and in all fairness, you've made a better point for Asus than I did: OP didn't ask too much about performance. He did care about features, and like you point out, Asus offers them, if not through its own firmware, but Merlin's...
  20. JoeHz

    Help replacing ISP provided modem/router

    I might suggest its biased for a reason, but again, hey, you do you as well :-) Certainly from what the OP asked about, in the ASUS vs Netgear debate and anything aimed at a tech savvy user looking for good consumer level stuff, the existence of the Merlin custom firmware (and Asus' endorsement...
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