Netgear R7000 VPN
People My kids are moving away from home and I want to connect their new house and our old house together from a networking perspective. We both use the same ISP, and they allocate a fixed IP Address....
View ArticleUSB modem not connecting with latest Merlin (HUAWEI dongle)
I have an AC68U and a HUAWEI E3276s-150 (not HiLink, as far as I am aware) 3G/4G dongle connected to the ASUS router. I am from Portugal and my ISP is Vodafone, as such, my APN is...
View ArticleNeed advice. AC-66U and AC87U.
Hello guys. I have AC-66U and AC87U. Tried to set 87 as a main router and bridge 66 to it. Failed... tried for months no sucess. So recently tried merlin on both of them and still no win. Bridge works...
View ArticleRt-ac68u in combination with Nexus 5 speed
Hi guys. I have a Rt-ac68u (John's fork V15) connected with a few wireless devices. I tried to use iperf to check the connection speed to my Nexus 5 (on AC 433mbps) and it got about 130mbit. On the web...
View ArticleBonding / Link aggregation in RT-AC87U
Hello As ASUS write on case router RT-AC87U this router support Bonding/Link aggregation (teaming) on port LAN 1 and 2. But FW still not support this. Why ? ASUS cheated users who buy this model... and...
View Articleperl issue on optware-ng
Hi all, i have a problem running perl scripts (e.g. mrtg), i'm getting this error about unresolved symbol: "/tmp/mnt/optware/optware-ng/bin/perl5.20.1: can't resolve symbol 'Perl_eval_pv' " What should...
View ArticleAC68U Ethernet port link lights?
Hi, just new here and have a question. Hope this aint a daft question but here goes. I bought the AC68U a few days ago and noticed that the ethernet port link lights for WAN & LAN don't light up or...
View ArticleMU-MIMO or AC3200 ?
Hello all, I have been running Apple Airport Extremes for some time and am quite fed-up with the lack of control and range issues. I have finally decided to update my home based network and am now...
View ArticleHome network equipment
Hi, I'm glad that I found this forum. I hope I find useful information and advice here. I'm building home 1Gbit network and I would appreciate any suggestions with router, switch and wifi AP selection....
View ArticleReplacement antennas for RT-AC87U?
One of the antennas on my RT-AC87U has become very lose and refuses to stand up straight (I am currently propping it up so it stays vertical) and I have been looking at replacement antennas. Anyone...
View ArticleMerlin on Tenda W1800R ?
I've read that the hardware for the Tenda W1800R/W1801R is the same as the AC66U (but with 16Mb flash). See specs here: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Tenda_W1800R I have 2 of them on order that I'm going...
View ArticleHow to verify QoS traffic app categories.
Adaptive QoS Is there a process available to verify that traffic on my network is getting assigned to the correct "app category"? I want to make sure that the traffic is being classified correctly, so...
View Article378.56, DHCP manual assignments and hostnames
There has been an option to add manual DHCP assignments in a way, that hostname will not be set by DHCP - by means of including "invalid" hostname into the entry (this entry will then be assigned as...
View ArticleCrazy Airplay issues - What to check next??
Hey guys, I have spent the past 3 days trawling the internet trying to work out what I cant get Airplay to work in a number of different configurations on my home network. Something's really wrong but...
View ArticleCan I connect my USB drive 24/24h on my router?
I have a Asus RT-AC66U and I will flash the firmware with Asuswrt-Merlin. I read that disk spindown is something possible with Merlin. So should I just let my USB drive plugged in all the time in the...
View Articlenat-start question
I have a question for the nat-start script. I want that a port is only available from one specific ip address. So i added the following line: iptables -t nat -I VSERVER 3 -p tcp -m tcp -s [specific ip]...
View ArticleAsus n18u - xbox one problem
Hello, I bought Asus N18U router and Xbox One in Black friday, and i try to use it. I set up everything, but I notice that I can not download games from Xbox one - something goes wrong. Then I try to...
View ArticleCustom DNS servers with USB modem?
Hi, It seems one can only set custom DNS servers on the WAN configuration, but these have no impact on the USB configuration, which I'm currently using (there's just no other way for me to have...
View ArticleWill ASUS next High End router RT-AC5300 be supported by Merlin ?
I am looking to improve my networks in general. I know this router has just been released so this inquiry is by no means a "pushing" request for a release... But does Merlin or anyone else know if this...
View ArticleHow to store wireless data and then send over GSM?
I have two buildings within 100 meters. I called them and building A building B. Between buildings A and B is two audio channels and one data channel. In building B I need laptop/PC with relevant...
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