After that, it's still a big topic, I will come back to as you, feel free to ask me questions.
One positive point is that it works on linux router with WRT base adapted by Asus.
Asus seems reactive on upgrades firmware, but mostly, they are helped by a certain Merlin who is Canadian and develops the firmware itself separate version and suddenly, Asus gets ideas for this developer with his agreement, will see his site [...] or the site of
This is very significant, because the tilting of a FW Asus towards Merlin and back, is very easily via the interface with the same file format.
The interface is multilingual and quite nice, but a bit confusing, there are some features in unexpected menus.
It seems possible to run the machine as Tomato or DD-WRT.
Perfs look good wireline level, I did not push testing in WiFi, but it looks okay and I have no peripheral supporting 5GHz. The firmware can cut the wifi by the WDS button (either Wifi WDS or switch) and the more you can cut only the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz or 2 to choose from. There is also a schedule management Wifis with operating ranges and programmable days hours.
Both bands have their own wifi separate settings, it can be very convenient.
I enjoyed the OpenVPN service (server and client) incorporated by Merlin, the customer is easy to configure and works perfectly.
There are just ready all the features one would expect of a modern router, just a little lack of log management and native impossibility of sending the log or email alerts.
There are some services included by Asus, your storage cloud service, with automatic DDNS Asus (useful for dynamic address).
Not being a great expert linux, I fight just now on the interpretation of logs, and I try to set up a syslog server.
The management of USB devices is perfect, the JFFS is supported you can place a USB device in the cloud, and DLNA streaming ...
