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Review on Wi-Fi router ASUS RT-AC66U, black by Ada Freya ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

What you need, a cool purchase, I advise you.

You can play around with VPN tunnels, in particular, change your gray 3g modem address to white thanks to external VPN services, as well as set your own server in Hong Kong to a white address to combine networks (for example, dachas and Hong Kong) into one network and access to video surveillance of cottages from anywhere in the world. Bought for organizing video surveillance and coped with its task. only now it only supports old modems - this is a big minus. - even Huawei E3272 did not accept. it gets very hot, and I want to put a fan, but then it will be noisy. I do not recommend for those who want a fast mobile connection. but in order to knock from the outside on a remote camera in the country or on a network video recorder, it is enough. accepted the good old Huawei E-171 (173). I advise you to stick the modem into the port through an extension cord so that the modem itself does not heat up, but only the wire. The network coverage radius is quite decent - Wi-Fi works in the yard of 30 acres (the house is wooden, though, not concrete). . The second usb port went to the print server - it also works. I haven’t tried it at a frequency of 5 GHz yet. Other routers of the rt series are similar in firmware and appearance (only the hardware is different - processor, frequencies, antennas - that is, speed, and so . the same problems with modems and heating (I know this as in Hong Kong, as a VPN server, I put rt-n18u on a white ip address). And yet - the old dir-320 dlink set to repeater mode, with such a Wi-Fi chip throughout the site, one asus at the far ends of the site and beyond didn't cope.

Pros
  • fast speed, the presence of a VPN server and ready to create a virtual network for 10 hosts (computers) (feel at home everywhere and have access to your home devices from anywhere), also the presence of a VPN client that can be included in conjunction with a 3g WAN or with a wired WAN changing thus, the external ip address of the router or becoming a client of a vpn server via a 3g modem (for example, located in Hong Kong in an apartment - I have asus rt-n18-u as such a server)), a convenient web interface, the presence of a print server and various services related to storage data on a flash drive, + cloud services. To expand functionality and increase convenience, I advise you to flash the firmware from Merelin. It has even more convenience and information content, + additional functionality, in particular with regard to VPN servers and clients (very convenient).
Cons
  • Stupid setup of routes, they don’t want to change, the default route could not be changed. when connected to a vpn server, all traffic goes through it and does not want to change. On the zixel, this changes in two counts. right there the firmware was not made for people Sometimes it gets warm. Therefore, it is necessary to 1. put the router so that the sun's rays do not fall on it, 2. put it on a stand on the end, and not flat, as we usually used to put routers. The main disadvantage - Does not support modern mobile modems. I upgraded to the firmware "From Merelin" but I have not tried new modems with this firmware yet (since I already bought e-173 huawei). When I have time, I'll go to the market and check it out. But you can connect your android phone with a USB cable and it will recognize it and start using it as a modem. I recognized all my samsungs. Do not forget to press on the phone itself - turn on the USB modem. I haven’t tried it with IPone, I don’t have it, they always have everything not for people.

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