About yorkytime1

LOL right.  It is the best purchase I've made since becoming a hughesnet customer. ... View more

GabeU,  I have a fairly large home with laptop computers throughout that I use depending on which room I'm in.  Plus my tablet that I can carry around.  I have a laptop connected to my embroidery machine so I can send designs from my main computer to my embroidery machine through the network.  Plus smartphones and hubby's kindle.  It is so great to have this router now that keeps track of everyone's usage.  Like today.....hubby left his kindle connected and the data began to drain.  I caught it immediately and told him to disconnect.  Then there are also two wireless printers and the wireless cameras.  Great now to see what all devices are doing during the day.  And hubby uses his desktop computer too.  This ASUS is just fantastic. ... View more

Gwalk,  I think your recomendation for the ASUS is fantastic.  I've gotten all devices and outside wireless surveillance cameras all set up and running smoothly.  I did have to put in a repeater for the camera that is farthest away from the ASUS router...but so far it is getting excellent signal. ... View more

Oh Gwalk I just saw your post.  Thanks.  Now I get it.  I remember Xoxo was getting one. ... View more

Thaks GabeU.  Just wondering.  why the D-Link.  I was advised to looks at the ASUS router.  BTW I am so far very happy I did get the ASUS.   ... View more

Gwalk,  Is this a new router you purchased?  Looks interesting. ... View more

BirdDog,  Now that makes a lot of sense to me.  The ip address is always changing on the cameras for some reason.  Maybe I will just let it choose an address them assign that number to it manually.  Sorry about the static thing....let me know what you find out.  LOL ... View more

GW,  that makes sense.  I'm having issues with my wireless security camera.  It was set up with a wired connection.  Then moved to remote location.  Wonder if that is why the IP address was static?  Slowly I'm learning.  I've had routers for years...but never have looked into WHY they work.  LOL ... View more

ok BirdDog.  Got the lan set up...yes manual was enabled.  Is there any advantage in assigning an IP address to a device?  Will go look at my devices now to see if they are 5GHZ capable.  Thank much.  There is so much to learn! ... View more

Oh and how do you run the 5GHZ side?  How does one know when to utilize the 5GHZ speed? ... View more

ok BirdDog,  I see some of your devices are DHCP, manual and Static.  How do you change those settings?  What determines IP address type? ... View more

I"m pretty pleased with this router right out of the box.   ... View more

Absolutely Gwalk.....happens here all the time.  Did I say we are OLD.  LOL that if you re-run one its like seeing it for the first time. 🙂 ... View more

Yes here is my main laptop....again two images for one single page. ... View more

BirdDog,  I get my NetFlix through the mail on CD's.  Serves us well for the few movies we want to watch.  <G> ... View more

BirdDog.....I'm pretty happy with the firmware that came installed in my ASUS router.  Does all that I wanted it to do.   ... View more

BirdDog....that is way way too many devices for me to monitor.  Remember I have a daily limit!  Doubt I wil ever have a smart TV or more than one smartphone.  LOL ... View more

BirdDog is this with the merlin update? ... View more

This is two images of ONE page.  Shows all client traffic.  Below is device list with MB download per device.  Below can see each device by selecting the name...then you see all webpages accessed for that single device.  I know there are different settings but I have not investigated those yet.  ... View more

okay here is the device list...with all current active devices.  One laptop, two cameras, two printers and a repeater.  ... View more

Give me a few minutes Gwalk. ... View more

Yes I know how bad cloud can be on data use.  But I have "unlimited data" between 2 am and 7am.  Setting the upload to only be active during those hours is no problem for me.  I do have oodles of large USB drives and gosh oodles of backup hard drives.  I even keep a master copy in a fire proof save.  LOL  Still paranoid of losing thousands of purchased embroidery files and archived photos/documents.  Never hurts to have yet one more backup....which is free from threat of hurricanes, tornadoes, and fires.  ROFL  Once data is uploaded it most probably will not come down again unless my "earthly" backups fail completely.  ... View more

Well I am back.....and WOW!  I've had an adventure.  A pleasant one I might add.  This ASUS router is simply awesome!!!  I have spent the last couple of days getting to know my new router.  I've gotten the network up and running.  Also a repeater for my outside wireless security cameras which have never worked this well...signal is really great.  yada yada yada.  LOL  This router has way more options than I will ever need.   So far I've found..... Surfing the net seems to be way faster than with the Linksys router I was using. EACH device in our home.....computers, tablets, phones, cameras etc are all shown on the device list....along with how long that device as been connected,  how much data that device has used, what websites that device has accessed.  How much data is downloaded and uploaded PER device.  Just amazing!  It is called traffic analyzer.   Even if a device is asleep it still is active in the device list.  Think tablets and smartphones and kindles....this serves as a reminder for us to be sure the take the device completely offline when not in use. Data limits can be set PER device.....think teenagers that want to hog the download data.  Or too many movie downloads to TV,  Especially useful for Hughesnet customers I think.  LOL   Also can block certain websites should the need arise.   It is 2.4GHZ and 5.0GHZ.  But I haven't found how to use the 5.0GHZ yet. It has USB support 3.0 and 2.0.  These ports can be addressed from anywhere in the world via Internet and can be used to upload to the cloud. Of course firewall, and all kinds of other little goodies for protection. ASUS offers free 5GB cloud storage and 200GB cloud storage for $29 per year. I'm considering this since they also offer seamless uploading of files to the cloud.   The user interface control panel looks like something out of Star Trek.  LOL Overall this router seems to be an amazing piece of equipment.  I am not sure I need to update the firmware with the Merlin version??  This firmware seems pretty darn complete to me.  I don't think I've even touch the surface of all the benefits of having this router.   Thanks Gwalk for your suggestion of the ASUS router.   ... View more

hahahaha will do.  I'm old too so we will be in good company. ... View more

okay thanks Gwalk.  Will wait to BirdDog to chime in. ... View more

yes I agree it would really be nice.  Actually I've never had to replace the CMOS in any HP laptop.  I've used HP laptops for many years.  So I too was surprised when I really looked at the thing.  I've seen it before when I opened the back but never really paid much attention to it.  But one does need the exact replacement part number or the exact laptop model number to get the correct one.  And I advise stay away from the ebay chinese sellers.  ... View more

Gabe,  that is true.  The wires plug into the motherboard right in that area.  No cannot use just a walmart brought button battery.  These are available on ebay for a reasonable fee.....but need the battery part or computer model to get correct one.  I buy most of my computer parts from ebay.  So far have had great luck with batteries, hard drives, replacement cooling fans, replacement laptop keyboards and some wiring harnesses for HP laptop computers. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xhp+pavilio... ... View more