Getting DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE error on R8000

Certainly!  I'll preface this that I'm hardly a router or networking expert.  I'm a long time telecommuter who needs to balance the network; my son has been home the last year doing grad school and an internship, plus there's many other devices, roku's using netflix, etc.  Probably like everyone else these days.  I use remote desktop a lot, and it has to work well.  Zoom and teams calls need to work well also.

Oh and a key piece: I'm fairly rural, so I have 10mpbs up and 1 mpbs down.  But when it's working, believe it or not, it works well.  I have urban coworkers who brag about their gigabit connection, but who seem to also have frequent problems.  That speed doesn't always mean good latency.  But it sells well!

We've only used FreshTomato for a day, but so far it looks really stellar.  The UI seems really tight, I am not seeing anything buggy.  The breadth of features is amazing.   I am really stunned at how much the hardware is capable of that is hidden in the stock firmware.

I am particularly intrigured by the QOS and bandwidth limiting features, and also the monitoring features.  There are beautiful pie charts that you can use to drill in to what device is hogging bandwidth.  I'm just starting to experiment with different priorities...although to be honest, things are working great so far, so it's probably best if I just leave it alone...I just can't help myself, it's a new toy!

I think I said in a prior post, I had used DD-WRT on an old Linksys WRT54G.  And I was amazed that it seemed to work really well for us.  But it's interface is not nearly as pretty; it's harder for someone like me to really understand all the tweaks.  FreshTomato spoon feeds it quite nicely.

But I am confident that, in the future, when I'm doing something and think "why is this so damn slow", I'll have a lot more capability of finding the offender pretty easily.

Another problem I've had in the past is that when I do uploads, it seems to gum up the whole network.  I'm talking about like uploading photo's, doing a backup.  I'll be curious to see if those problems go away as well.

Oh and, my ping spike and DNS Probe issues seem to have gone away entirely.  So as far as I can tell, those were both related to the stock firmware.

I will make a point to come back to this thread and comment in a month or so after I give it a more thorough test.