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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • For life is tricky considering “end of life” products will typically still work reasonably well for decades after being obsolete, but might be susceptible to future exploits that end up unpatched, and you really don’t want to become part of a botnet.

    With that said, I’ve had an Asus RT-AX88U for over 6 years now, it’s receiving regular updates, and there’s a third party firmware (Merlin) that adds some features and keeps being upgraded as well.

    My house is 20m square, but I have a shed outside with some gardening automation going on, so overall it stretches 34m from router to last device. I have two Asus Zenwifi AX mini mesh-nodes, one upstairs and one in the rear end of the house (about 18m from the router and 14m from the last device), and I don’t have any connectivity issues.

    Overall there are 22 devices permanently connected, plus another 4-6 randomly (two laptops, 2 phones, plus visitors).

    Never had an unscheduled reboot, though I do install new firmware every 2 months which takes the network down for about 5 min.


  • There’s one near my house, and it has no mute button whatsoever. No buttons at all, in fact. You tap your card to the reader, then lift the pump of whichever variety you need, and that moment the ads start. With sound on full blast as well.

    I’ve left a negative google review and make sure to update it monthly so that it stays on top, and drive to another station quite a bit further off just to avoid this crapshoot.