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    Anandtech closes up shop

    That long? To be honest everything going to YouTube/videos is driving me nuts. A written article can be skimmed, you can jump to the parts you want, if on a mobile device you can consume it without needing to disturb others or cut yourself off from the outside world. Perhaps I'm just showing...
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    News RT-AC68U End of Life Announced by Asus

    Catching up on a (very) long thread on bug fixes and the ongoing WiFi issues, it was clear there are quite a few ex-Asus customers (more specifically ex-Merlin users) who have tried the Flint 2 as Asus AC routers have gone EOL. Had a bit of a chuckle at the discussion comparing the TUF AX6000...
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    News RT-AC68U End of Life Announced by Asus

    How have you got on with the Flint 2? Seems they're still working through the issues they had with 2.4 WiFi - though much improved with the more recent firmware. Or was it the headaches with the stock firmware that moved you to OpenWRT?
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    Compatibility Findings with AddOns with GT-BE98 Pro

    Do you mean by dnsmasq config or directly through YazFi? Presumably the dnsmasq side would be possible on 3006? (Still on an AC router I have no idea!)
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    Security update support list for the US market

    The law only forces companies to state when products may stop receiving updates - it doesn't specify how the companies position it or how long support must be. All Asus are doing is putting a timeframe short enough they can make a legally required statement while having flexibility to extend...
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    News RT-AC68U End of Life Announced by Asus

    I appreciate there is a limit to what Asus can share without immediately making the vulnerability easily exploited in the wild but the lack of detail gives users of older routers zero idea whether they are affected or not. That notice doesn't explicitly rule out routers used by many here (me...
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    why have a domain name in a home LAN?

    To the original question, yes it requires local dns but a lan based domain can allow free letsencrypt certs which mean browsers across a range of devices don't moan about lack of https and don't need self signed certs or CAs installed. (The latter of which can cause a general background whinge...
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    Announcement: 3006 progress report - it's a go

    I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment but by their nature, they are more likely consumers going for whatever is cheapest/happens to be available rather than repeat customers specifically choosing Asus higher end models. (I'd also say more likely customers with a higher support overhead...
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    RAID 5 vs RAID 6 ??

    Any disk replacement has the same impact - whether because the previous one failed, is aging or you just decided that shiny spare disk couldn't wait to be part of the array. This is why the parity setups aren't recommended for large arrays. Yes you can replace a disk that fails scrubs, SMART...
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    RAID 5 vs RAID 6 ??

    Nobody ever accused RAID10 of being cheap - that's not the point of it. The different RAID options give you a choice between speed, size, cost and availability. The question you need to answer is how long can your array be down for before its a problem - and given the backups are on lots of...
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    GL.iNet worth a try? Any advantage over ASUS?

    Haven't caught up on it recently but, from memory, there was quite a bit of discussion on the Flint forums around wireless issues and dropping back to the older snapshot to deal with a driver issue. A friend of mine is running one of these and says in general it's pretty solid - don't think he...
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    Release Asuswrt-Merlin 386.13 / 386.13_2 is now available for AC models

    While this won't help you, I'm not having an issue on the AC88U here. I tried your steps on the 386.12 install before upgrading to 386.13 and re-trying. In both cases it worked with no issues - even being smart enough to enable the filter if I didn't click the radio button before clicking the +...
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    Home Network Plan - Where and What

    Loads of technical stuff better suited to others but to start off, I can't get a decent zoom on the orange cables but my initial thought given all the other cabling is speaker cable. On the access points, I'd go for ceiling mount. There's been discussion on here about best mount points etc but...
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    Typical home NAS setup for family pictures/videos

    Free and unlimited until it isn't. A bit like ad-free until it wasn't. (And don't get me started on TV shows/films randomly rotating between free and chargeable!) I could possibly buy that argument as a reason not to invest in a NAS device but not to get rid of one - even then, I'd still go for...
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    Asus moving some devices to EOL while issues still remain

    I'd probably tweak that to "their $1000 Android phone that stops getting updates after two years and is the much bigger security risk because of the amount of c**p they load on to it". I also wonder, of the number of complaints about short Asus support, how many are also considering the modems...
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    Current plans regarding separate version branches

    Thank you for sharing - a timely post as I contemplate life beyond the AC88U. As one question, do you have any insights you can share on Asus plans for 3004 vs 3006 branches if/when 3006 is stabilised and they move it out of beta? I'm guessing they have little desire to maintain both...
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    Typical home NAS setup for family pictures/videos

    This! RAID is about data availability (how quickly you can get to your data), not data security (how sure are you it is safe when something goes wrong).
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    Typical home NAS setup for family pictures/videos

    I must admit, personally I think these days WD are trading more off brand loyalty and reputation of old than anything else. The debacle as they quietly changed from CMR to SMR on their Red series did them no favors. In terms of reliability, everyone's mileage varies but a friend has seen...
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    NAS Newbie. Be gentle. Let me think out loud here before I purchase.

    It's more the latter but also think about the array after that rebuild. Raid5 recovery involves all disks rather than just 1. The first raid5 recovery will probably be OK but it gets progressively riskier to replace a disk as the others are more and more worn. Simply replacing another disk...
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    NAS Newbie. Be gentle. Let me think out loud here before I purchase.

    Number of disks and RAID type is an important consideration. The move to bigger disks has increased the risk of a double failure - the second happening during recovery from the first (the recovery process is particularly disk intensive for RAID5 and RAID6). For RAID5 that's game over. While...
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