{"id":566,"date":"2012-12-21T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-12-21T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:44:55","slug":"dd-wrt-vs-apple-no-masquerading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"DD-WRT vs Apple&#8230; no masquerading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned this one the hard way. \u00a0After a lot of searching through DD-WRT forums and time with my cable company doing some communication checking, I accidentally confirmed an obscure item I found in the DD-WRT forums .<\/p>\n<p>If you have any Apple device on your home network (particularly iPad and Macbook), turn off the DNSmasq for DNS option in the DD-WRT Router.<\/p>\n<p>There is something with Apple devices that causes the wireless connection to drop for 5-15 seconds or longer every several minutes when this option is enabled in DD-WRT. \u00a0It&#8217;s very frustrating when you&#8217;re trying to be productive on the net. \u00a0It took me a while to confirm that this was the problem, until I mentally associated the start and end of the connection drops with my son coming into or going out of my house with his MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The best (and most painful) example for\u00a0Ocham&#8217;s Razor that I have ever experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned this one the hard way. \u00a0After a lot of searching through DD-WRT forums and time with my cable company doing some communication checking, I accidentally confirmed an obscure item I found in the DD-WRT forums . If you have any Apple device on your home network (particularly iPad and Macbook), turn off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologynetworking","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}