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  1. thiggins

    NETGEAR Nighthawk AX12 Router Outed by Qatar ISP

    Qatar-based ISP Ooredoo today spilled the beans on an unannounced NETGEAR AX router. This Gulf Times story described Ooredoo's intention to "roll out first-in-class fibre home devices to "Qatar's Future City" Lusail to ensure Qatar’s first smart city is fully-connected". The first device is...
  2. jpr105

    Issue accessing my RT-AC68U using PHP and SSH2

    Hello, I need to access my RT-AC68U in SSH. So I configured the router as follows: Enable SSH = LAN Only Allow SSH Port Forwarding = Yes (not sure this is necessary) SSH port = 2222 Allow Password Login = Yes Enable SSH Brute Force Protection = Yes When I connect from my iMac or Raspberry...
    • jpr105
    • Thread
    • php radio ssh wifi
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Routers
  3. D

    How to exclude guest access from VPN tunnel on wireless router running openvpn client

    I have an Asus RT-AC86U running the latest Merlin firmware. I have an openvpn client setup. Currently all traffic goes over the VPN. However, my goal is that wireless clients that connect to the guess WiFi are not routed through the VPN tunnel. Is there a policy based routing rule that will do...
    • DTS
    • Thread
    • guest wifi routing rules vpn wifi
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: VPN
  4. thiggins

    Razer Debuts Gaming Router

    Self-acclaimed "leading lifestyle brand for gamers" company Razer today announced its Sila gaming router. Sila is a three stream tri-band 802.11ac router (AC3000 class) with Gigabit Ethernet WAN (1) and LAN (4) ports and one each USB 2. 0 and 3.0 ports. The spec link rates look like it sports...
  5. thiggins

    11ax is dead. It's now Wi-Fi 6.

    Just as the Wi-Fi industry is racing to get draft 11ax products to market, the Wi-Fi Alliance today said it would like us all to adopt a new naming scheme. The Alliance's announcement briefly describes the new naming scheme, which includes renaming 802.11ac to Wi-Fi 5 and 802.11n to Wi-Fi 4 and...
  6. sfx2000

    Clever Hack - Router on a board - old machine and wifi

    Somebody used one of these to connect a Classic Macintosh (SE/30 with a Dayna ethernet card) to WiFi... This is basically a router/bridge on a card - Mediatek Router SOC w/802.11 b/g/n with a fast ethernet port on the other side - runs an old version of OpenWRT under the hood. But the fun...
  7. W

    [Official Beta release] Lyra series AiMesh beta support

    Hi Everyone, This is the 1st beta release of Lyra series models for AiMesh support. Release note: - First beta release (based on 9.0.0.4.384 branch) - Work with all ASUS models with AiMesh supported. - Lyra series covered: Lyra(MAP-AC2200), Lyra mini(MAP-AC1300), Lyra Trio(MAP-AC1750) -...
  8. thiggins

    Quantenna and Plume Buddy Up With 5x5 MIMO AX

    Quantenna and Plume on Monday announced they are integrating Plume’s Adaptive WiFi "AI driven" mesh solution with Quantenna's Wi-Fi chipset portfolio. The announcement focused on Quantenna's QSR5GU-AX PLUS chipset, which was announced Sept 12. This is the first draft 802.11ax device to support...
  9. cdysthe

    No "Smart Connect" on the NETGEAR R7800.

    Hi, I've been working on my home network after my old R7000 died and could not be resurrected. In another thread here I've been advised to step up my game and get a R7800 which is more likely to utilize my gigabit connection through my NETGEAR CM1000 modem. I have ordered a R7800 so I can test...
  10. sfx2000

    New Science Project - WiFi/BT scanner and Security Tool

    Inspired by the article here.... floating out an idea... As part of the poll - some options are below the price to develop, some break even, some give me a bit of profit.... I can do it - handheld and battery powered, with a local display, and a couple of buttons to change modes, totally...
    • sfx2000
    • Thread
    • bluetooth kickstarter scanner scienceproject security wifi
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Other Discussions
  11. thiggins

    NETGEAR Debuts An Expensive Gaming Router

    NETGEAR announced the Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR700 WiFi Router at IFA yesterday. The XR700 takes a path similar to the NETGEAR's XR500, by reskinning an existing router and powering it with DumaOS. This time, it's the AD7200 class R9000 that gets gamified, bringing along a 60 GHz 802.11ad radio...
  12. thiggins

    TP-Link Introduces Intel-based Router

    TP-Link today announced it will be shipping a four-stream router based on Intel technology later this year. The Archer C2700 is a four-stream AC2600 class router supporting maximum link rates of 1733 Mbps in 5 GHz and 800 Mbps in 2.4 GHz. It follows Phicomm's K3C and ASUS' Blue Cave to market...
  13. R

    RT-AC5300 all wifi networks reverting to 20MHz bandwidth

    Hi all I'm having a problem where all wifi bands (2&5) are reverting to 20MHz and performance is basically non existant. Rebooting the router puts them back at 80MHz for 5 and 40MHz for 2 and performance is temporarily restored. I seem to be able to trigger this bug by making small changes to...
  14. R

    Rt-Ac 5300 5G-1 network >10dBm lower than 5G-2

    Hi all Trying to fix a weird problem. My 5G-1 seems to always be at least 10dBm lower (sometimes 15-20 lower) compared to the 5G-2 network. I can't work out what's going on. This is perhaps related to another problem I am trying to fix with Wi-Fi...
  15. thiggins

    Devolo Debuts Mesh WiFi System With Powerline Backhaul

    Devolo will announce its Magic Wi-Fi system at IFA 2018. The system pairs dual-band Wi-Fi access points with second-Generation G.hn powerline to produce a Wi-Fi mesh system that uses powerline for backhaul instead of Wi-Fi. The company said the product provides mesh Wi-Fi with fast roaming...
  16. R

    ac68u wifi wan throughput

    my setup is ONT <-PPPoE-> AC68U(using Merlin, 800Mhz cpu, NAT acceleration CTF (Cut Through Forwarding) is enabled.) ISP speed is 600Mbps I did basic test with iperf, run iperf server on PC connected to ethernet and mbp 15” 2016 connected to wifi(ac 5gh) transfer speed was about 650Mbps All...
    • ressac
    • Thread
    • iperf throughput wan wifi
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: ASUS Wi-Fi
  17. S

    Help me build a Top of the Line Setup

    Hi there, I have spectrum 1 gig internet and a 15-20 year old really crap router currently and I am looking to redo my entire setup. Currently I have many devices hard wired (cat6) which are going to a switch that is set up in my networking closet (My tv's, desktop, and some cat 6 jacks are...
  18. U

    New attack on WPA/WPA2 using PMKID

    Source: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html Clientless improvement to brute force, offline dictionary attacks on WPA/WPA2 PSK (Pre-Shared Key) passwords. Begin Quote This attack was discovered accidentally while looking for new ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard. WPA3 will...
  19. B

    Upgrading to new router advice

    Hi everyone, I've been going back and forth trying figure out what wifi router I should by. Any advice is gratefully accepted. Okay, I live in a 2 storey + basement house. About 2800sf. I currently use an Asus RT-N16 router with stock firmware in the basement and this handles all wifi...
  20. cammelspit

    VLAN Guest WIFI isolation, AP Mode

    Hey guys, I am in need of some help here. I am in a situation where I have a large number of rommates/guests connected to my WIFI. I am using an ASUS AC5300 as my access point. DHCP and everything is handled my a pfSense instance running on my unRaid server. Here is my problem. When I set the...
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