Asus website updating!

[Smokey613]

Just tried to check on the latest firmware for my CT8 units and got this. Too funny!

 

[Tech9]

What happened to ER7206 and Eero now?
Is this a new signature of the week or a new signature of the day?

 

[Smokey613]

What happened to ER7206 and Eero now?
Is this a new signature of the week or a new signature of the day?

It’s even better than that! I am actually waiting on my new Firewalla Gold to be delivered today. More extensive testing revealed the ER7206 was better than the Asus in failover but still not realiably so. During that testing I remembered why I had originaaly dropped using the eero system. If the eero does not have internet connectivity for any length of time even the local network goes offline. That is unacceptable, hence my returned to using the CT8 pair. They work great in AP mode with the third wifi band as a dedicated wireless backhaul. I will keep you updated on my testing of the failover capabilities of the FWG.

Untangle does dual wan perfectly but to get that capabilitiy you have to have the Home Pro subscription which is $150 annually. Not that big a deal but it would be nice if it was not necessary.

Had I come across your recommendation of the Synology RT2600ac before I ordered the FWG, I probably would have tried it first.

 

[Tech9]

waiting on my new Firewalla Gold to be delivered today

You are going to end up with bigger router collection than mine and much more expensive.

Had I come across your recommendation of the Synology RT2600ac

It does Dual WAN properly, but it's an older model, overpriced and bound to specific firmware only.

 

[Smokey613]

You are going to end up with bigger router collection than mine and much more expensive.



It does Dual WAN properly, but it's an older model, overpriced and bound to specific firmware only.

I returned both TP Link routers to Amazon, gotta love their return policy!

 

[Tech9]

Make sure you negotiate the return home policy before you tear the network down again.

 

[Smokey613]

Firewalla Gold is online and working great. WAN failover functioning has passed everything I could try. I am a very happy camper. I did have to replace the pair of CT8 with my two RT-AC86U units. It seems due to the dedicated backhaul on the CT8s Firewalla kept detecting any device connected to my node unit as orogination from the IP of the backhall wifi connection. No such issues with the AC86U setup and my remote node speeds are equal to what I was getting on the CT8 setup.

 

[Tech9]

I'll check your signature next week.

 

[Smokey613]

I'll check your signature next week.