Only stock router has this feature. Third-party routers don't have. As mentioned by the fellow forumers above, you want best experience, invest on a good router. If i were you, I would avoid d-link and tp-link brand.

You can find the feature under Advance section. Source.

Both router not recommended for these days. Get yourself with a ax56u and avoid ac68u as well. Better processor, better wireless coverage, better firmware support. An entry level ax router costs ~RM420 - AX56U.

I just made huge leap-over to ubiquiti gear.

"wow. That is really great."

I am avoiding consumer-grade routers for privacy concern. I am pretty sure that you're well aware we can't use most 'features' in a router (any brands) due to EULA agreement made to allow us our data to be gathered if we want to use a "specific" feature. I ditched out Chrome and Google (search engine) long away go and opt to duckduckgo with hardened firefox for this.

Answering to your second question, the process is quite slow since I only rely on wired over wireless. So ubiquiti gear -> a gigabit switch to route incoming/outgoing traffic to physically connected device. I begin with ubiquiti gear and the requirement of adding/mod exisiting network system may change according to the requirement during the present time in the future.

This post has been edited by Jjuggler: May 4 2020, 09:09 AM

Dedicated wired router brand: Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter or Mikrotik. Models varies for your needs.

Huawei box is modem or BTU. Netis is known as router. If you want to change the network equipment, you only can change the router which is Netis in your understanding. There are a few brands available in the market as the best alternative towards unifi's stock router. Each brand offers similar purpose, to provide you a gateway to the internet, but it may differ in terms of features offered. Each router model is like a car's accessories. Some may seem cheap, with less feature and this applicable for higher range router. I don't recommend D-Link and TP-LINK (only for their standalone router models) if you intent to use this for long term. Their mesh unit good for act as an access point. If you want a decent, feature packed router, pick ax56u instead.

Yes for the bolded text. Unless the Netis was not configured as a router+modem combo (because you should do some tweaking to make the third-party router to work), then you should be fine. If you're looking for a proper mesh system, go for brands like TP-LINK. ASUS is quite expensive and normally I won't recommend their mesh system (since most find it out of their budget) due to being an expensive, but you will get a few firmware patches/security fixes (only if issued) from ASUS till it reaches its EOL status.

This post has been edited by Jjuggler: May 5 2020, 06:58 PM

you're welcome mate.

I will suggest AX56U instead. Yes, there are no proper AX clients yet, this is the current cheap, affordable, secure router compared to its AX competitors, but it is better to future proof your home network with a newer router with newer hardware. It has better processor compared to the AC66U_B1 and AC68U and retails at RM450++ est. Avoid AC66U_B1 and AC68U since it's already considered old. I have already shifted from AC68U to Ubiquiti.

Do not rush into buying a new router. Save the cash (usually there will be some promos). Just like me, was waiting for AX86U, but Ubiquiti caught my attention. Once moved towards Ubiquiti, there is no turning back to ASUS or other consumer-grade router.

My friend, setting up Ubiquiti router is pretty simple. You can refer to this guide and the process of setting up Ubiquiti is faster than setting up any consumer-grade routers out there.

BTW, its good you don't upgrade your stock firmware to the latest one. Because the newer firmware has Game mode and OpenNAT feature and its quite buggy. ASUS made the AC68U as a gaming router already. Perhaps the cheapest AC gaming router for ASUS networking gear line-up.

At least their Innatech RGX4400 is way better than Netis. The C1200 is a good router, I will have to be honest here. It is just the firmware has so many bugs that causes the CPU performance to shoot up without no reason (kernel panic without no reason, or poorly coded firmware) that causes the router to freeze and then reboot.

This post has been edited by Jjuggler: May 12 2020, 06:33 AM

Don't feel my friend. Everyone has to go through some learning process. Some people have budget issues and maybe that's the reason why they are not keen to listen to the advice, at-least gears like TP-LINK are way cheaper than ASUS with better hardware offerings at a cheaper price with the bonus of a "good-bye" after one year the revision released. Good thing, TP-LINK actually good, it is just they should stop releasing revision and focus more on solving bugs in the present revision just like ASUS. This is why ASUS progress better than TP-LINK and D-LINK or even brands like Tenda or Mercusys.

Have you tried to update to Merlin-firmware. The model is now supported by Merlin. I believe most of the problem present in the stock firmware should be solved in their recent signature release.

It is an american company. Warranty wise, it depends on our local distributor. In my case, I bought from SUBtel. They are quite famous for being Mikrotik Distributor, and I bought a unit of Mikrotik for myself last time before sold it to brother soonwai.

I agree with your point there, globalize the firmware for one model for all region. At-least they are way better than D-Link. Sudah bikin one written guide mah... . Enter pppoe username and password, walao terus connected to the internet. I haven't fully explore the Ubiquiti yet lol.

It is a good question brother. Well, Merlin firmware is an alternative firmware of ASUSWRT, think of a normal stock Bezza with Bezza + Gearup kit. It adds a few extra features that don't available over stock firmware such as selective routing (some addressed it as policy routing) for VPNs since setting up VPNs in the stock firmware will cause all the clients connected will be routed through the VPN tunnel, if your VPN provider like this one supports unlimited device, then okay. Another good feature Merlin has is DNS-over-TLS and supports a few scripting such as Diversion (router level ad-blocking, enhanced firewall, Skynet uses AiProtection's log to protect your device as claimed by the developer of the script itself. And Merlin firmware tend to be ahead by solving bugs compared to ASUS engineers, and some power users able to give feedback based on the alpha-and-beta firmware released before a final version is released for the public. This is why most of the time, merlin firmware is slightly stable compared to the stock firmware. And merlin supports AiMesh feature, with condition, the master node shouldn't be running on stock firmware. If the master router runs on merlin and mesh node runs on stock firmware is supported. However I am not sure if the AiMesh stability issues solved already or not, since I am not keen into using AiMesh due to WPS feature that has to be enabled that may cause your pro neighbor or some random guy with a hood on top of his head to tap into your home network and do all the illegal stuff. .

Additionally, merlin now supports both AX56U and AX3000 (AX58U) so shouldn't be problem for the next 5 years.

I publish the guide on my site. Brother posthumous had answered your questions. The EdgeRouter 6P costs me RM1190. Bought from SUBtel through Lazada. I just make the Deco M4 as the wireless signal broadcaster, cheap wi-fi solution lol.

Just use the remaining ac router as wireless broadcaster. Can save some cash.

The stock settings (default-settings) blocks all port and the result obtained from Gibson's Research Corporation site passes with flying colors.

You cannot change your PPPoE (Unifi) password. You only can change the router login credentials. As for the password, you can get it from unifi's service form (the form given to you after installing the service in your residence/office) or give a call to customer service center or login into the router to get it (refer to this guide). There was a thread dedicated for this topic.

You're welcome mate.

Why you want to trouble yourself? Just invest in a decent smart switch (usually this is recommended because who would waste other remaining ports for IPTV right?) / dumb switch (if you connect the RG4332 from LAN 4 port of your AX3000) then you're good to go.