Fr Robert Ballecer, SJ Hi Padre, just watched episode KH 190 and thought I 'd give you a heads...

[G+_Zoran Ananijev]

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Hi Padre, just watched episode KH 190 and thought I'd give you a heads up on another router that has had the same features as the Synology router for the past year or more and it is a combo modem router to boot. https://www.asus.com/au/Networking/RTAC68U/specifications/

 

This is the one I use, but there are newer models with more features as well.

 

It even has its own touch screen via a very usefull iPhone management app.

 

Just keeping you on your toes :-)

 

Z

https://www.asus.com/au/Networking/RTAC68U/specifications/

[G+_Albert Rios]

Great router I purchased and used it a while until I got verizon/Fios service and I am sad to say fios does not allow me to use this router unless I use it in conjunction or after the fios modem/router. Has anyone been able to connect fios service on this router?

[G+_Gustavo Domínguez]

Albert Rios Just DMZ from your FiOS modem router into you router of choice so it becomes transparent, disable Wi-Fi also, if it offers it. Use a different subnet or, disable DHCP in the FiOS router or limit it to just on allocation, your other router's, then in that other router modify DHCP to not include both routers IP addresses.

 

It's a very easy process.

 

e.g. 1

 

FiOS router 192.168.3.1

Client ASUS router 192.168.3.2 (ASUS' WAN side)

DMZ into 192.168.3.2

Wi-Fi off.

 

ASUS LAN side 192.168.0.1

DHCP range 192.168.0.100-200, note that in most decent routers you can assign IP addresses outside the DHCP range. This is actually preferable.

 

e.g. 2

 

FiOS router 192.168.0.254

DHCP range 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.1 (one allocation only) or turn completely off and assign the ASUS router static values. And point to the FiOS router.

DMZ into ASUS' WAN side.

 

ASUS WAN side 192.168.0.254

ASUS LAN side 192.168.0.1

This might be a little more tricky since a router's function is to connect networks, so it may not allow this.

ASUS' DHCP range 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.253

 

I wouldn't give more than 50 DHCP clients to these consumer routers because they're generally not that powerful, and reading from the specs, they sound too wow-factor-y. Just scroll down and listed as special feature there is "Multiple SSIDs," that's a given for a basic router these days, and a requirement for a dual-band router. Also, turn the DHCP lease time way down, something like 1800 seconds so if you have many guests it releases the IP addresses quickly and doesn't exhaust its DHCP pool--and memory.

 

One last thing, DMZ is a dangerous feature, but since you'd be DMZing into another firewall, it'd be just as if you were connecting from that device from the beginning, so that's that. Also you can use one router for DHCP and WI-Fi and another for NAT; you could also use the second router to connect [your whole network] to a VPN killing Verizon's ability to snoop on you packets. Seriously your choices are a million, don't give up on that router yet.

[G+_Michael Belew]

That's the one I have and several friends too...

[G+_Walter Riggs]

Just got mine up and running.  It only supports up to 2 TB external drives.  Sucks since mine is 5TB.

 

Love love love the controls where I can filter specific devices as well as set their schedules.

[G+_Michael Belew]

can it use multiple partitions?

[G+_Russell Williams]

Question related to the Gibson bit on 3 dumb routers. If you're router is running dd-wrt/Tomato etc. it's capable of VLAN support. So would you need 2 additional dumb routers or just a decent one running one of the firmware options mentioned?

[G+_Rud Dog]

Found it interesting the router you showed from Synology actually can configure it four Gb ports using vlan. Now back to my RT-AC87u to check if it can do this and if now boy did I make a bad choice in routers.:(