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@warrenholt @sayssar What are your hardware models?

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@j1970m2 What’s your hardware model?

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Both have gigabit Ethernet ports, but the PW-AX1800 has faster WiFi (WiFi 6) as well as VPN speeds. Max speed for WireGuard is 500Mbps for the PW-AX1800 and 180Mbps for the CF-WR619AC. OpenVPN is about 25Mbps for the CF-WR619AC and 120Mbps for the PW-AX1800.

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This is not on the roadmap at the moment.

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Do you mean to block NTP time sync from devices connected to the router?

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General documentation would be technical and boring. What are you trying to achieve? We can give you specific instructions.

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Yes, we have an upcoming travel router. Currently on prelaunch: https://prelaunch.com/projects/pc-wrt-seattle-nano-world-s-smallest-dual-band-travel-router

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@pepper80 You’re probably not set up for cloud management. To enable that, you need to log in the local interface (usually http://192.168.10.1), go to the Cloud Settings page and enable “Remote Management” from there.

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It doesn’t monitor your maximum bandwidth usage. But you can use the bandwidth throttling function under Access Control to clamp down the max bandwidth and see if it affects your online experience.

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The router only assigns IPv4 addresses to your devices, so no need to disable IPv6 on every device.

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If Access Control is enabled, the selected DNS in the profiles takes precedence. Otherwise, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) takes precedence over VPN DNS service. So if you configured NextDNS with DoH, then NextDNS will be used instead of the DNS from your VPN service.

That said, you can override the behavior in the VPN client configuration by checking the “Force VPN DNS” box.

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The NextDNS URL comes from your NextDNS account – refer to the NextDNS screenshot before step 1.

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You can think of bridge mode and AP as synonymous for this purpose. In router mode, the router has two sides: LAN and WAN. In bridge mode, WAN is bridged with LAN so that the router can be used as an AP. The router firmware should shutdown DHCP when set to bridge mode.

You can use a router as an AP without switching to bridge mode too (e.g., when the router does not support bridge mode). In this case, you’ll need to connect a LAN port on the router to the upstream router, set a static IP address in the IP address range of the upstream router and disable DHCP yourself.

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I can’t explain that. Maybe you can send a copy of the Newifi backup file to [email protected] so that we can take a look?

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1. The secondary routers do not need VLAN support, if each one is used for one VLAN.
2. No.
3. It’s more preferable to have the secondary routers as access points, because then you can see all network activities from the main router. If you set up the secondary routers as “routers”, then the main router sees all devices connected to the secondary router as one device.

You can achieve what you want to do with this configuration:
1. Set Ethernet port 2 on the pcWRT router to X1 for IoT. Set Ethernet port 3 on the pcWRT to Guest for guest access.
2. If your other routers support bridge mode, set them to bridge mode.
3. Configure WiFi on Router 2 and Router 3 as you normally do.
4. Connect Router 2 to port 2 on the pcWRT. Connect Router 3 to port 3 on the pcWRT.

If you switched routers 2 and 3 to bridge mode, consult the manufacturer’s documentation on how to connect them to an upstream router.

If routers 2 and 3 do not support bridge mode, then you need to assign static IP addresses to them before connecting them to the pcWRT router. Assign IP address 10.159.158.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 to router 2. Assign IP address 10.159.157.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 to router 3. Then connect a LAN port from routers 2 & 3 to port 2 & port 3 on the pcWRT.

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