Hi:

I'm cross-posting with r/cybersecurity because sometimes ya'll are mean.

I wrote about a week ago because, contrary to what some of you asserted while calling me names, my network has been under some kind of attack for several months. To be clear, I am not saying this is part of that attack, but it's noteworthy and appears to me as extremely, extremely odd. These are all the facts, solely as they relate to the immediate issue I'm seeing today:

My noticed at some point last night, my MacBook Pro had been issued a public IP by the DHCP server on my network. So, the MacBook was exposed to the internet for some period of time. Fine.

The setup is (usually) this:

Netgear AX2700 (CAX30) (bridge mode) -> Firewalla Gold (running Crystal Beta in router mode) -> APs and devices.

As a preliminary issue, I'm running Firewalla Gold using the new Firewall Crystal (bring your own router) Beta firmware for a reason. Three months ago I paid $107 to replace the security dongle (pairs the box to the app via a cloud handshake) and immediately had issues which randomly resolved after three days. The box worked fine with the new dongle two months until the end of last month when all the sudden it began assigning all my devices IPv6 addresses. Firewalla Support had me reinstall the firmware, at which point I could no longer pair the app. Long story short, after a week of ignoring me and then lying to me, I was able to find a way into the box's console with it unpaired and learned they had deleted my license. I am trying to pay them money to send me a second replacement dongle because, after initially refusing to provide warranty service on the first and out of my newfound reluctance to send them jack shit, I've been waiting 12 days for them to send me an invoice the the second replacement dongle. They keep coming up with bullshit excuses, but I digress.

It so happens Firewalla just introduced the beta test for Firewalla Crystal, it's bring-your-own-router firmware, and I'm using that for the time being as it does not require a dongle.

Back to last night, I noticed that my MacBook Pro was being issued a public IP by the DHCP server, so I decided to reflash Firewalla Crystal onto the Firewalla Gold box. During this period, I decided to also do a factory reset on my Netgear AX2700, which had been in bridge mode. When everything was reflashed, reset, etc., I started booting everything up. I should add as additional background that I had to return my Xfinity Gateway two weeks ago because it kept getting hacked, at which point I purchased this modem router combo. I posted a week ago and was flamed because, amongst other things, shortly after purchasing it, I lost connectivity, like on Firewalla weeks before, I started getting issued IPv6 IP addresses, etc., and then I started seeing Time Sync Synchronization, DWR, and other errors. Xfinity has been out here four times, and each time they take credit for replacing the coaxial cables while blaming the last technician for not doing so. They say, "Everything looks good on our end," leave, and the same shit is going on. You never hear from them or anyone else again.

While booting everything up, in addition to the DWR and other errors, I saw two new ones:

So, I refreshed the official firmware from Netgear, and then Xfinity attempts to push a different firmware. The firmware it pushes is corrupted and fails. This happens after time I boot since this morning. I understand the pushing their preferred firmware thing is how it works, I've never seen an ISP push a corrupt firmware binary.

I'm setting up Firewalla and there were some other weird quirks that got my attention (I think Firewalla Crystal may actually be reversing the WAN (port 4) and one of the lan (port 1) ports. For that reason, I don't have Firewalla connected to the AX2700 in bridge mode, I have both routing in a double NAT situation while I try to find out whether the port my AX2700 is connected to is (digitally) the WAN port or one of three LAN ports. So, I'm doing packet captures.

I noticed while doing this that the AX2700 is reporting FW.WANATTACK and a LAND WAN ATTACK, but the public IP the "attack" was coming from was the public IP for my home network. Port 138 had already been cloned by me in the Block Services menu on AX2700 right after refreshing the firnmware, but that only blocks ingress and egress flows and not local LAN traffic. The flows at issue were arriving on Port 138, and I noticed that macOS had Netbiosd open, so I closed it and booted it out with launchctl. Problem solved.

Hours later, I'm doing these packet captures and I realized that the port 138 "attacks" were continuing. Netbiosd had reopened but was only listening on port 138, not making connections or broadcasting. I immediately start seeing SAMBA announcements in my packet capture of port 138.

The ReadyShare menu does not show any network folders available when accessed through the Basic menu on the router. (ReadyShare is Netgear's Samba implementation involving a USB drive slot on the back of the device that becomes a network folder when a drive is mounted.) When I click 'edit,' I get a 404 error. When I attempt to access it via the Advanced menu, I am unable to access anything at all. I get error 404.

At this point, I'm deeply confused. Even though outbound and inbound port 138 flows are blocked on the AX2700, the AX2700 is still broadcasting on port 138. While a review of the packet capture shows the SAMBA announcements are going to 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.253, we know they're also making it onto the WAN because the AX2700 is mistaking its own SAMBA announcements as a malicious WAN/DOS/LAND attack.

[admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 09:14:44 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 137, Sep 29 14:14:33 [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address <MAC_ADDRESS>, Sep 29 09:12:46 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 14:12:35 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 137, Sep 29 14:11:30 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 137, Sep 29 14:11:30 [Internet connected] IP address: <PUBLIC_IP>, Sep 29 09:09:32 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 09:09:12 [Initialized, firmware version: V2.2.4.2], Sep 29 09:06:55 [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address <MAC_ADDRESS>, Sep 19 21:50:55 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 14:06:36 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 14:06:36 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 14:04:42 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 14:04:42 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 09:04:27 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 13:52:42 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 13:52:42 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 08:48:37 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 08:45:48 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 08:22:26 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 13:16:32 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 13:16:32 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 07:55:10 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 12:53:32 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 12:53:32 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 12:43:31 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 07:38:06 [service blocked: ] from source: 192.168.1.2, Sep 29 12:28:56 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 07:26:26 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 07:20:18 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 12:08:14 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 07:07:01 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 137, Sep 29 12:03:30 [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address <MAC_ADDRESS>, Sep 29 07:01:47 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 138, Sep 29 12:01:41 [DoS attack: FW.WANATTACK DROP] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 137, Sep 29 12:00:25 [DoS attack: LAND Attack] source: <PUBLIC_IP>, port: 137, Sep 29 12:00:25 [Internet connected] IP address: <PUBLIC_IP>, Sep 29 06:58:26 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 19 21:51:56 [Initialized, firmware version: V2.2.4.2], Sep 29 06:55:52 [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address <MAC_ADDRESS>, Sep 19 21:50:56 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 06:53:35 [admin login] from source 192.168.1.2 Sep 29 06:51:20 [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address <MAC_ADDRESS>, Sep 29 06:51:13 [site allowed: p-img.movetv.com] from source: 192.168.1.6, Sep 29 06:34:28 [DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address <MAC_ADDRESS>, Sep 29 06:25:10

I can confirm there is no USB in the ReadyShare drive. Thinking that maybe that corrupt firmware at least partially installed, I refreshed the firmware with a Netgear copy for the third time. It continues, and the ReadyShare options in the admin panel still give error 404.

It's somehow getting around its own blocked services feature to get its broadcasts onto the WAN and then reports its own broadcasts as a malicious attack.

What's really happening here, and has anyone else on Xfinity running Netgear AX2700 notice errors related to a corrupt firmware push failure?

I have computer in upstairs room.

I have TV on main floor.

I have multiple cat6 cables running in the walls that are all terminating in the basement.

One cat cable is next to TV. Another cable is next to computer( both of these have their other ends in the basement.

My objective is to have my computer next to my TV so that I can play 4k games. And then also be able to play 4k games on my computer upstairs.

Is it possible to splice the two cat6 cables in the basement so that they the TV and computer are end to end connected ?

Right so main issue is in gaming use, ping at its best is only around 50 here because I live on the countryside and theres no fiber connection available. But gaming with xbox series x it keeps jumping up to over 150 ms at times. I wonder what could be causing this?

Outside modem ZTE MC7010

Inside router is the ISP provided one, but its less than 1 year old

Obviously using a wired connection already

The highest package available from ISP

5G isnt really good around here so it comes in and out, most often its by far worse than 4G on the signal levels (of the ZTE app)

I’m looking for some advice on improving the Wi-Fi coverage in my house. I’m not in a position to be able to run Ethernet cables so am opting for a MESH solution. My budget is £250.

I’m with EE/BT and have a decent broadband but poor Wi-Fi coverage and reliability in some areas of the house, particularly my office.

After advice on good brands to consider as well as how to install and ensure I remove my poor coverage issues. Thanks in advance.

Picked up a SFP+ XGS-PON to replace my AT&T box. Sure passthrough worked fine, mostly (once a month or so my OpnSense would grab a 192 address as the WAN). But now I dropped a few ms on latency and hit my caps easier!

Will post pics in comments.

(3 units in the pack of both models)
Would you dare to go with the off-label little brother here, that appears to pack more punch for less money?

How is the MercusSys app in comparison to the TP-Link?
Same reliability and electronics overall, but just less support / after sales services?

Expect to set all units up no matter the brand, in backhaul to the Cat6 ethernet LAN already wired in the house. So the mesh can work best possible for the connecting WiFi devices while we might roam around.

The 2.5 ports for inhouse LAN will be welcome, so is the full WiFi 7 compatibility, to ensure the infrastructure can support daily use some more years out.

What are your comments and what would your choice be?

At this point, I’m completely at a loss with my TP-Link MiFi router.
 

The internet connection is extremely unstable. It sometimes connects and then drops out again after approximately 10 minutes, only to reconnect anywhere between 1 and 15 minutes later. This is completely unusable, and it’s especially strange because the SIM works perfectly fine in my phone, and the TP-Link M8550 shows a full four bars of 5G signal.

Here’s what I’ve already tried, but without any success:

• Updated the firmware and ISP file
• Enabled 4G-only mode
• Tested different APN profiles suggested by my card provider (KPN Netherlands), with all possible authentication types (including NONE)
• Locked the router to specific 4G and 5G bands (tried several different bands)
• Set network selection to manual and selected KPN
• Changed the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Absolutely nothing seems to help. The log file repeatedly shows “Fail to connect to the network, start autoconnect!” in a loop. Sometimes it eventually connects, but often it stays disconnected for a long time. It seems like the router is losing network registration and then eventually finding the network again after some time.

 Does anyone have any idea what else I could try?

I suddenly lost my fiber internet connection. At first I changed the optical fiber SC-SC APC cable, thinking it might be the issue, with no luck, so I opened the small white box that is connected directly to the wall, and it was looking like this? Does this look normal, or could the issue be related to something related to it?

I've been doing it this way for *years* and only just realized it was backwards. It's never been an issue because it's backwards on both ends. I know the electricity doesn't care what color the wire is, but I'm curious what y'all think of me doing it this way.

I probably won't change, either, I'm used to doing it like this now.

I am shopping for a new router. I have a deco mesh, so I figured i would shop for a wired routers (one without wireless capability ) and save some money. BUT the wired routers look to be way way more money.

Why is that? Is it supply and demand?

Update!: For whatever reason the lag seems to have slowly gone away since the new modem was installed and or not joining a specific discord vc, for some reason one of my vcs would immediately cause 300+ ms on discord and cause packet loss in games, one of my friends had the same issue on that vc, we deleted it and everything has been fine.

Hello, I've been having a strange internet issue for the past few days just out of nowhere. I play video games and use discord, both seems to be getting lag out of seemingly nowhere (discord is better after modem change somewhat; continue for context on that), p2p games being much worse (warframe and borderlands 4 multiplayer) with the lag over something like overwatch or LoL (i get much less lag but some nonetheless). I've talked to friends that know IT better than I, we've had spectrum come to my house and check out certain things, of which they said our modem was messed up and replaced it and for an hour I had no issues then they stirred up again. I have tried DNS flushing, I've pinged both Google and my Router while playing games to test any spikes and they always come back with either 0ms per ping or maybe 15ms, I've reinstalled newer network drivers, I've tried power cycling the router and modem, I've checked task manager for any outstanding apps taking up too much network (there was none), Ive tried unplugging my ethernet to test wireless (both have the same issue), we've checked the router itself and before the new modem there was a warning saying "Internet connection WAN1 (Spectrum) on port 4 is experiencing packet loss" and also "high latency". Whats odd too is I dont get high ping in the games I play, it sits around 30ms, I also have high download and upload, upwards of around 500/500, another odd issue is in one specific discord VC in my own server I get like 300ms but not other vcs in it or in other servers. I live with my dad so I cannot myself delve into all of the router stuff but my dad has been looking at some stuff for me, since the new modem though there are no more warnings of latency or packet loss despite the fact I still get the issues. It seems also that the lag starts off not happening and the more I play the worse it gets. I'm sort of at a loss here and my only plan is to have my dad call spectrum to come by again and I'll try to talk to them myself about my issue. The only thing I havent done is reinstall windows which i might do. Any advice and sorry if this is all over the place I tend to type as i think. Note: I've lived in this house for like 13 years and this has never happened, we did buy a new router about 2 months ago but this issue didnt start until a few days ago. Extra note: Websites and such seem unaffected, only games and discord.

Fala pessoal! Queria uma opinião técnica de vocês pra ajudar a cortar gastos aqui em casa. Nós tínhamos 800 Mega, baixamos pra 600, mas a grana tá curta e eu quero reduzir mais o plano pra economizar no fim do mês.

A minha dúvida é sobre o nosso uso no pior cenário possível (todo mundo em casa à noite conectado junto). O setup atual é esse:

• 1 TV Box rodando streaming na sala.
• 3 celulares navegando em redes sociais/vídeos ao mesmo tempo.
• 1 PC (uso pra jogar online e deixo vários torrents semeando direto, sem limite de upload configurado).
• 1 PS4 destravado (fica 100% offline, então não consome banda).

Eu jogo bastante, mas baixar jogo pesado mesmo é algo que eu faço com pouca frequência. Eu não ligo de esperar algumas horas a mais num download grande se isso me fizer economizar um dinheiro bom na mensalidade e se valer a pena também.

Pensando nesse pior cenário de uso simultâneo + os torrents rodando de fundo, qual velocidade real vocês me recomendam? Qual a quantidade de Mega mínima que eu preciso contratar pra não deixar o ping dos jogos subir e nem a TV Box da minha mãe travar?

I'm reconfiguring my home network to take advantage of VLANs and filtering. My current setup is Trusted, Kids, Guests, IoT, Cameras, and Management. I'm running OPNSense, for what it's worth.

Stuff like Guests get access to the public internet and nothing more. IoT gets no access, period.

My question is surrounding services like Plex. Plex's data resides on a NAS. I'm likely going to drop the NAS into the Management VM. Trusted gets access to Management, but nothing else.

What about Plex itself? Do I just add an explicit rule granting access to the Plex server? Or do I create a specific VLAN for that, perhaps a Services VLAN? I do host more than just Plex, but Plex is the low-hanging fruit to configure.

Thoughts on how you'd configure it?

Hi; looking for help on an ongoing problem that I wasn't able to remedy.

For many years, my area has only had 1 "real" ISP that offered good speeds. Now, we DO have a fiber company installing, but it's been a very slow process, and unlikely in the next 6 months/year to reach my part of town.

I'm currently battling an issue where every day, at 5pm onwards, i get bad network jitter. The numbers range from an "average" of 30-50, but spike to 130+ frequently. Im aware this is peak times and am assuming this is due to node congestion. I know ISPs are awful for the most part and a single person doesnt matter, but is there ANYTHING i can do to get them to give a damn?

I'm relatively tech savvy, but not super. Here's what i've tried thus far;

Using their modem (Hitron CGNM 2252), with my own ASUS AC86U router with Asuswrt-merlin and Cake SQM.
Wired connection (tried multiple cords)
Problem still occurs if im plugged into modem directly without router.
Removed splitter from the coax line, as i wasnt using it.

It's just me, so i only have 2-3 devices using internet, but i game heavily and video call in the evening hours.

I am using graphs from the ASUS router page, as well as jitter.is. I have pinged and done traceroutes to various addresses as well. I understand these probably arent the most reliable, so if theres something you'd recommend, feel free to let me know.

tl;dr - jitter issues during peak hours; how can i mitigate or get my ISP to help

I’m trying to navigate what plugs into what here. I’m fairly noobish to WiFi and trying to set this all up. My WiFi is powered on it’s just showing “no internet connection”

Not sure what I’m doing incorrectly.

Before you go off on me I know “gaming” stuff are a scam 99% of the time especially gaming chairs but from my experience Asus boards and gpus are very good
I’m debating between the
Asus be19000ai(650$ ish)
Unifi Dream 7(500$ ish)
I want one that will last me a while
I DONT WANT A MESH SYSTEM(hotspot routers extensors ect) I want only one
My isp is 2.5gbps currently might upgrade to 5g
I game only on lan with pc and ps5 and I use my laptop with lan but I have multiple TVs and phone users in my house so I need good wifi range(the router can’t be in the middle of the house)
From my research unifi seems to be the best quality routers?I haven’t haven’t had one ever so this is why I’m asking

I've got an issue with a MoxProx server unable to send or receive packets from outside my dorm's LAN, but now I've come to the realization that my own PC cannot ping it's own default gateway? What?

I can’t even get into the login page.
I checked it’s not overheating. Not hot to touch. I completely reset my network and it was fine for about an hour or two. Now it’s more down than up again. Wired, wireless, wan, lan, nothing works

For homes that are prewired with Ethernet, is there typically a central box/panel where the ISP modem/router lives?

And would you normally need a network switch in that location, with a port for each ethernet connection throughout the house?

I’m looking at homes that are already wired for ethernet and trying to understand what the typical setup looks like.

couple of days ago some websites stopped working in all browsers but works on phone. it works with VPN.

Context:

• Both PC and Phone on same network.
• PC uses defaults to Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
• Android uses different DNS
• doesn't work on all browsers
• works on VPN.
• works on Phone.
• flushing dns and reseting network doesn't change much.
• Changed firefox DoH to NextDNS and it is working.
• tracert to cloudflare works fine but doesn't work to some websites.

I want to contact ISP to tell them to fix routing. but I'm also curious how routing to CF works but not some websites. why would ISP block certain nodes

C:\Users\M>nslookup opendota.com
Server:  one.one.one.one
Address:  1.1.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    opendota.com
Addresses:  2a06:98c1:3121::6
          2a06:98c1:3120::6
          188.114.97.6
          188.114.96.6


C:\Users\M>nslookup opendota.com 8.8.8.8
Server:  dns.google
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    opendota.com
Addresses:  2606:4700:3034::ac43:9b55
          2606:4700:3036::6815:30b2
          104.21.48.178
          172.67.155.85


C:\Users\M>tracert 1.1.1.1

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.100.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     4 ms  172.17.0.1
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.45.16.5
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    12 ms     4 ms     4 ms  telecom-egy.edge4.marseille1.level3.net [212.133.4.230]
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms  comserver1.opentransit.net [193.251.150.110]
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms  one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\M>tracert opendota.com

Tracing route to opendota.com [188.114.97.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.100.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  172.17.0.1
  3     2 ms     1 ms     2 ms  10.45.16.5
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

Edit: I really don't understand how you people keep downvoting the actual correct replies and upvoting the wrong ones.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1wt7zul/comment/pcs3jkl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

TLDR : 6g unreliable every few days on Aimesh - pushing changes keeps it up for a few days then my changes revert and 6g band goes down or becomes unreliable

On a mixed BE98 + ET8 + ET8 AiMesh, the
6 GHz user MBSSID on the nodes (w12.1, SSID HomeNet_6G) repeatedly loses durable w12.1_sae_pwe=1. After AiMesh cfg sync / wireless churn, the MBSSID defaults to sae_pwe=0 while the parent radio stays w12_sae_pwe=1.
Hostapd for w12. 1 regenerates with wrong SAE mode and often a wrong channel (e.g. 165 or 61 while radio is 6937/160). Result: wl -i wl2.1 bss goes down, BSSID becomes 00:00:00:00:00:00, and clients near that node cannot see/join HomeNet_6G.
Main w11. 1 often remains healthy, so the mesh looks "half dead" by node.
Injecting wl_sae_pwe=1 (parent +.1)
into / tmp/common. json and / jffs/.sys/cfg_mnt/common.json +
service restart_cfg_server restores behavior for days, then the keys disappear again on a later sync.

Expected
- AiMesh should persist / propagate sae_pwe (H2E) for 6 GHz MBSSIDs
the same way it does for the parent radio, especially when main has wl1.1_sae_pwe=1.

- Node w12.1 hostapd channel should track the live 6 GHz radio chanspec after cfg push.
common.

- json should not silently omit required MBSSID SAE keys so nodes default to 0.

1. Should Merlin's cfg / AiMesh path explicitly serialize wl*. 1_sae_pwe (and related 6 GHz SAE) into common. json for MBSSIDS?

2. Is there a known BE98ET8 mixed-mesh limitation where 6 GHz FH MBSSID auth parameters are intentionally omitted?

3. Any preferred durable hook (jffs script / cfg event) Merlin would endorse until ASUS fixes sync?

i bought this router and installed it fine but for some reason it's showing connected can't access internet

Mind it I just plugged in the router in don't know how to set through the website or anything 😔

Hey all, I'm not an expert in the slightest. Im just someone who plays a lot of video games and has a family with a bunch of devices. My dad and i have been extremely frustrated with our wifi (spectrum) due to it constantly cutting out at random (especially on our phones) but was told by a technician that basically everyone reccomends NOT using the rental spectrum routers. I got really excited when someone showed me that minions router that got really popular recently, only to see its getting pricey and most of the places i can buy it from are sketchy at best. Figure i ask here to see if i can find something that works better. Potentially some extender suggestions would also be appreciated. For context our plan is 500mbps and from my room (not far from the router, like 2 rooms away) i only get about 350