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I have Cox fiber. Our story starts when I started getting lots of captchas. On every page. Everywhere. Then, I started getting errors with Netflix about being unable to serve content. Then Venmo stopped working, etc, etc. I ran virus scanners, malware scanners, etc. I run Linux, and I am pretty careful with updates and firewalls, so it seemed unlikely, but I thought maybe I had some malware somewhere. However, when I VPN'd to another network, the problems went away. If I used any other device with any other OS, Windows, Android, MacOS, or otherwise, I continued to have problems unless I switched on the VPN.
OK, fine, I thought, I'll try to reset my IP address... but Cox's panoramic rent-a-crap doesn't have the option to do that. Many phone calls and weeks later, I finally was able to get the thing to get a new IP. You may be wondering at this point why I didn't ditch Cox for someone better, say, a snail carrying a thumb drive. Well, we don't get a choice around here. Cox is the only game in town if you want anything except satellite or OTA 10 Mbps internet.
I decided, hey, I'll buy a new router. I was looking at a Wifi 7 setup anyway, so why not splurge a little? I bought a ASUS RT-BE96U after reading what I thought were pretty good reviews online. I set the rent-a-crap aside and resolved to take it back and save a buck or two. I was really happy with the RT-BE96U. It could do separate VLANs for IoT stuff with the ability to prevent those devices from talking to anything else on the network, AiProtection, lots of neat stuff. I searched many, many threads on these forums that helped me not only get back up and running, but also to be nicer to my neighbors as well. Thank you!
But Cox wasn't done with me. Oh, no, my friends, they decided to have multi-day internet outages. I started to miss work. Work is stressful enough without me missing a day and having to catch up on tons of email with people snarling at me that I missed this or that deadline.
I found the dual WAN feature today as I was biting my nails wondering what terror will befall me tomorrow when I am able to get back to work. I understand that especially on the stock firmware, it doesn't work well, in fact I might not be able to get it to work at all, but if I could get the second OTA 10Mbps wireless, I could at least have a backup. But I don't want to give up AiProtection or the other features in order to use it.
So, TL;DR: Are there any alternatives to AiProtection or other features I may be missing if I am somehow able to get dual WAN working?
TIA.
Signed,
An Idiot.
OK, fine, I thought, I'll try to reset my IP address... but Cox's panoramic rent-a-crap doesn't have the option to do that. Many phone calls and weeks later, I finally was able to get the thing to get a new IP. You may be wondering at this point why I didn't ditch Cox for someone better, say, a snail carrying a thumb drive. Well, we don't get a choice around here. Cox is the only game in town if you want anything except satellite or OTA 10 Mbps internet.
I decided, hey, I'll buy a new router. I was looking at a Wifi 7 setup anyway, so why not splurge a little? I bought a ASUS RT-BE96U after reading what I thought were pretty good reviews online. I set the rent-a-crap aside and resolved to take it back and save a buck or two. I was really happy with the RT-BE96U. It could do separate VLANs for IoT stuff with the ability to prevent those devices from talking to anything else on the network, AiProtection, lots of neat stuff. I searched many, many threads on these forums that helped me not only get back up and running, but also to be nicer to my neighbors as well. Thank you!
But Cox wasn't done with me. Oh, no, my friends, they decided to have multi-day internet outages. I started to miss work. Work is stressful enough without me missing a day and having to catch up on tons of email with people snarling at me that I missed this or that deadline.
I found the dual WAN feature today as I was biting my nails wondering what terror will befall me tomorrow when I am able to get back to work. I understand that especially on the stock firmware, it doesn't work well, in fact I might not be able to get it to work at all, but if I could get the second OTA 10Mbps wireless, I could at least have a backup. But I don't want to give up AiProtection or the other features in order to use it.
So, TL;DR: Are there any alternatives to AiProtection or other features I may be missing if I am somehow able to get dual WAN working?
TIA.
Signed,
An Idiot.
