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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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What’s your firmware version on the Newifi? You might want to reset the router and start from fresh to see if it works.

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@bolozinaction The article you mentioned talks about static IP address from your ISP. In general it’s not needed – setting up DDNS is a better solution in most cases.

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@echo Named devices will get static IPs from the router. It is convenient in case you need to use a fixed IP address for a device (e.g., manual configuration of a network printer). We don’t think there’s any downside to doing this. Access Control and logging identifies devices by their MAC addresses.

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You should be able to get above 500Mbps (if your ISP speed is more than that) with the device in the same room as the router, on the 5GHz band. You should exceed 60Mbps even on the 2.4Ghz band and several rooms away from the router.

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The reason we limit the number of WiFi VLANs to 4 (per band) is because some WiFi device drivers can only support a maximum of 4 SSIDs.

VLANs on the pcWRT router are just separate networks that are isolated from each other. Each has their own IP address space. The only exception is “LAN”, which has the ability to start communication to other VLANs (by default, but you can change that if you want).

VLANs are pre-created. What you can do on the router is to associate WiFi SSIDs or assign Ethernet ports to them. For example, if you assign Guest to Ethernet port 1, and create WiFi SSID bemyguest for Guest, then your computer connected to Port 1 and any devices connected to SSID bemyguest are on the same network (VLAN Guest).

By default any device connected to VLANs other than the “LAN” do not have the ability to log in the router. When you visit the router URL, you’ll only see a link to display the device’s IP address and a link for Ad block control.

We’ll need to create some new blog posts to explain things better. Thanks for bringing this up.

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The router does not treat wireless and wired connections differently when routing. So if you have Internet via Ethernet, you should have Internet via WiFi. Can you switch one of your wired device to WiFi and see if Internet cuts off? Also, run “nslookup www.google.com” from a command line to see if it’s a DNS problem.

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