BirdDog, wish me luck !

[Gwalk900]

Just picked up an Asus AC3100

That puppy takes the Merlin firmware.

That should put a name on who is using what 🙂

[brianj1313]

Pointless if you don't have the speed from you're is

[Gwalk900]

You would call traffic monitoring by MAC address pointless on a data capped service ?

Do you see how many complaints there are related to "missing data" most of which are likely rooted by activity of wireless devices ?

Speaking of speed I have been getting 19 to 27 Mbps. Not bad by satellite standards.

[BirdDog]

It monitors usage by device, wise choice old man. Speed is divided among devices when connected at the same time. Again, wise choice old man.

[Gwalk900]

I haven't installed it yet but I downloaded the Merlin firmware.

A whopping 463 MB zip file. That's fat one for firmware.

[GW]

That's huge. The FW update for my ASUS was 6 MB.

[BirdDog]

Lol, and there it is once again. Me thinks you have the data to spare.  🙂

It is top of the line and most likely has lots of bells and whistles my old school RT-56R does not. I think time to change screen name to McDuck.



Um, 44 MB according to my screen: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/6tx06ijxrcctn/RT-AC3100

[debbie.jean.bro]

Nice! Congratulations!

[C0RR0SIVE]

So, when you gonna delve into PFSense? 🙂


Logon Page:



Main Page: Shows everything at a glance, from traffic stats and real time traffic, to system activity.



Monitoring, lets you view pretty much anything from CPU/Memory usage, to latency and throughput in many different intervals.



DHCP Leases: Comes in handy when you are trying to find someone snooping on your network if you register DHCP leases in the ARP tables.


Firewall Rules: Little difficult to setup, but once you figure it out, it dawns on you how simple it can be.


Gotta love local proxy cache and being able to blacklist anything you dislike.


Traffic monitoring.  This is a bit more detailed than the system monitor, it's an addon package.


Gotta love when people visit bad websites. 🙂

[Gwalk900]

Very impressive corrosive, alas I have not the room for another "box".

Besides that even following your PDF guide it would be a steep learning curve 🙂

[C0RR0SIVE]

Believe it or not, you can get a PFSense box as small, if not smaller than most of todays routers. 😛

[Amanda]

While you make this leap.. we make on in our personal lab... I got one of our older XP computers replaced with a new Acer desktop and will be installing Linux Mint on it! jerza would be proud.

[Gwalk900]

Speaking of jezra, did he prove the Earth was flat by falling off the edge ?

[BirdDog]

[GW]

Oh my! Too funny Gwalk.

[Gwalk900]

Laugh if you must GW but I KNOW its flat. The edge is right behind my property 🙂

[CharlesMcCool]

How funny I just bought that same one a month ago, Great minds think alike

[CharlesMcCool]

also under Adaptive Qos we have the ability to log web history per device

[CharlesMcCool]

He downloaded the ZIP file of the current and all previous files 

[Gwalk900]

Did you run it out of the box or install the Merlin firmware ?

[CharlesMcCool]

Merlin, I havent ever run the stock FW