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BirdDog, wish me luck !
Just picked up an Asus AC3100
That puppy takes the Merlin firmware.
That should put a name on who is using what :)
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- I think he grabbed the whole folder and not just the current FW
- I think you're right. Dumb old man.....lmao. I guess treed download folders are too much for him. What's your excuse Gwalk? ;)
- New keyboard!
- Or time for new glasses! BTW, that thing looks like some kind of space ship. Bet it is really nice. My poor man's RT-AC56R has been working well in 1500 sq/ft single story home.
I put on a different pair of glasses (Bee goggles?) and connected the new router.
Really sweet interface but you do have to go through the menu choices carefully.
I opted to not enable the Sync and Remote Access features:
It just opens up to many back doors to suit my taste.
Nor did I enable any of the "AiProtection" features because they access data bases in real-time. I may enable later just to gauge the performance hit and data usage.
These features could also be source of "missing data" as they wouldn't show up in Glasswire or any other monitoring software. It will be interesting to see how this work out and if the Traffic Monitor recognizes the router itself as a "client" consuming data.
Different traffic analysis displays:
Overall:
By device:
By application per device:
Definitely the tool to have for those that are missing data and are unwilling to breakdown their network.
- I have the same stuff on my "cheapo" model and turned those same features off. Don't want anything that lets the router send and receive things behind my back.
The usage tools are sweet and has allowed me to know exactly where my data is going. As a test I enabled the following services:
Security Assesment: Done
Malicious site Blocking:On
Vulnerability Protection:On
DNS Fitering:On: OpenDNSEnabled at 2:37 PM
Remaining data:
47,488 Anytime
49,779 Bonus
29,000 TokenThe router does list itself as a client in the list of devices:
- OK, that is really cool.
Its not like I'm in danger of running out of data or anything like that.
In fact I just picked up a handful of wayward bytes that fell out of my laptops unused Ethernet port. Fortunately they were full-fledged Bytes and not bits so they were much easier to scoop up and jamb back in the Ethernet port.
Curious to see the amount and pattern of usage.
