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Originally Posted by jay152
General what were you going to mention about the WIFI on an earlier post?
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you pay for what you get and the good thing about buying a proper router in addition to performance and stability are options. You have one menu for setting up "your" 2.4ghz and 5ghz networks with the ssids and passwords etc you want and then there is a completely different menu for guest networks. If someone comes round to your house and they ask for your wifi password because they want to do something you don't have to worry about them having access to everything on your lan or screwing everything up. You can setup multiple guest networks very easily with individual names which will restrict access to your lan and can be time sensitive whether it be for 1 hour or 1 day and when the time has elapsed (e.g. if your neighbour comes round for a coffee) it just disappears as if it were never there and you don't have to worry about a messy gui and having to delete everything and clean it up.
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Originally Posted by jay152
Also what does this mean and what will It do exactly?
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I'll try and keep it simples. When you ring your mum on your mobile phone you ring "mum" in your contacts list but you know your phone is actually ringing 07123 123456. Websites are the same and when you go to amazon.co.uk you are actually going to 52.222.239.109. When you type a website name (url) into your browsers address bar your pc fires off a request to the dns server (like an address book) for the ip address of the name you have entered.
You think of routers as the superhub or the thing you want to buy for you home network but there are obviously bigger ones and the thing which your vm connection connects to is VM's router (cmts) and in addition to providing your router with an ip address for your home connection it tells your router what it's default gateway is (the ip address of vm's router you are connecting to) and the dns server. One of the many reasons why the shub's are rubbish is because any good router allows you to set your dns servers manually but the shubs don't because vm want you to use theirs.
The problem is that if your dns server goes down you think your internet connection is down because your browser throws up an error message of some sorts. The thing is that your connection is actually fine and if you knew the ip address of the site you wanted to go to you wouldn't have a problem but you don't know the ip address of each and every site you want to visit.
Using the isp's dns servers isn't bad per se if they work but the problem is that vm's dns servers break far more than they should and if often takes them at least half a day to fix it. If you use another provider's dns server (e.g. google) which has a higher level of redundancy (and google care a lot more) it is just one of many things you can cross off your list of not having to worry about. This is what I mean when I say to people "you need to buy a proper router" and there are multiple reasons for it. Changing the dns server is a very simple thing to do and takes seconds but it is such a huge benefit which you probably won't even notice. The funny thing is that when vm's dns servers go down you won't even notice because you aren't using them and you'll be plodding along quite happily at home doing whatever you are doing. It is only if you visit this forum or equivalent that you'll see a tonne of people posting messages from their smart phones asking what is going on and you'll see smug ****s like me saying "buy a proper router".
In case you are wondering, the reason why VM don't let you set your own dns servers is because of what I have already described above; if you screw it up it can give the appearance that your connection is broke when it isn't. If vm let you change stuff like that around then it is one more thing for the ming mongs in India to have to deal when trying to troubleshoot network connectivity issues.
So, as an example, atm you are using vm's dns servers and if you go to a command prompt (windows key, cmd, enter) and type "nslookup" and hit enter you'll see the ip address of vm's dns server you are currently using. When you override that on your router when all the clients on your network retrieve their configuration information from your router by dhcp they'll get an ip address, the default gateway (the lan address of your router) and whatever dns server you specify and that will apply to all your pc's, tablets, phones, TV's etc so it is well worth doing. This is what happens when you change it so you know it is working properly.
Following on from what other users have described above this is the screen in the Asus gui where you would set it along with the other things I have talked about in previous posts such as addressing schemes and setting static ips for the known devices on your network. It is very easy, you click on lan and dhcp and everything is there.