Asus mess up with their Routers

[SpyderTracks]

Now, I've got a lot of Asus products, I heavily favoured their routers for years until where I currently am simply because BT offered a full mesh network under our contract, but requires a BT router. But I still have my trusty Asus DSL-AC88U which I got precisely because it supports both ADSL and Fibre inputs, and fully intend to use it when we switch away from BT.

I've been a huge fan of Asus and promoted them heavily right up until AM5 really, but there have been some huge issues recently generally across some of their products. And it's not really the issues that are the problem, it's the way they've dealt with them.

This is a truly major mess up though!

Botched Asus Update Kicks Routers Offline Worldwide, Company Apologizes

A faulty AiProtection definition update is the suspected culprit.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[SpyderTracks]

Asus just cannot buy good puclicity at the moment...it's from one issue to the next

It may not be a popular opinion but I am a foirm believer in "If my ISP provide a router, then I'll use it". I've been with Plusnet for 16 years now, have only ever used the routers they have provided and they have always given me the best line speed possible with no issues, security or otherwise.

ISP supplied routers are fine for home use, but if you're doing something like running a server or have a static IP, they're totally useless in the main. The BT ones are the worst as they lock out the DNS to their own DNS which is incredibly out of date, and often doesn't have new website listings, so you can find sites blocked for no reason.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Gaming latency also hugely benefits from a decent router.

 

[Scott]

I think I've managed to avoid that as I tend not to allow automatic updates of Firmwares on Routers. Learned that one the hard way haha.

 

[SpyderTracks]

My IP address is static, only changes if I switch the router off.

That's not static, then, that's dynamic. A static IP is a dedicated Public IP address, never changes.