DNS Director

[plapic]

I would like to know if there is a feature similar to DNS Director that allows you to globally force devices on your network to use specific nameservers (DNS) on a specific band for eg 2.4g.
I would prefer this for a community router that has many users and keep members on a restricted DNS channel but have admin users on unrestricted DNS channel on 5g band.
I know with DNS Director you can use global redirection and set specific devices to bypass it with a client rule but that is tedious if you have a large number of admin users and getting them to provider their mac addresses.

 

[Tech9]

Single consumer router is not a good choice for this task to begin with. Most support about 30 active users per band and the performance close to this limit will be bad.

I’m currently in a hotel with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network, 3 floors 22 units each, I counted 18x APs and they are perfectly placed and tuned on very low power. 10m away from an AP and the devices switch to the next. This is how Wi-Fi for many users is done.

 

[RMerlin]

3006.102.1 can do that with a Guest Network.

 

[plapic]

Single consumer router is not a good choice for this task to begin with. Most support about 30 active users per band and the performance close to this limit will be bad.

I’m currently in a hotel with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network, 3 floors 22 units each, I counted 18x APs and they are perfectly placed and tuned on very low power. 10m away from an AP and the devices switch to the next. This is how Wi-Fi for many users is done.

Thanks for your response however it doesn't even address my question. My query was in relation to filtering domains based on bands instead of individual devices. Nothing to do with performance.

 

[Tech9]

Then you need BE-class router with Asuswrt-Merlin support. Only BE routers currently have 3006.102 version.

 

[plapic]

3006.102.1 can do that with a Guest Network.

I had a look at 3006.102.1 and it mentions it supports Guest Network Pro (also called Self-Defined Networks, or SDN) and implemented DNSDirector webui for SDN. According to Asuswrt-Merlin only RT-BE96U or GT-BE98 PRO models are supported. Then on ASUS website they have ExpertWifi EBR63 that supports SDN and I think you can setup DNS independently per SDN but I dont think it supports merlin.

 

[Tech9]

According to Asuswrt-Merlin only RT-BE96U or GT-BE98 PRO models are supported.

RT-BE86U and RT-BE88U will be also supported soon.

 

[bennor]

According to Asuswrt-Merlin only RT-BE96U or GT-BE98 PRO models are supported.

RMerlin has indicated the following routers currently are supported by Asus-Merlin 3006.102.x firmware:
RT-BE96U
GT-BE98_PRO
GT-BE98 (Gnuton fork)
And he has indicated the following routers will be receiving 3006.102.2 Asus-Merlin support soon.
RT-BE88U
RT-BE86U

Asus-Merlin Pre-beta test builds