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I guess I'm not updating my routers anymore then. Sucks though. It seemed to be the only Asus product that wasn't garbage.
Look into OpenWRT. It is more complex to setup but it is a Swiss army knife.
Sadly, many ASUS routers use Broadcom chipsets, which has major compatibility issues with openwrt. Notably, Broadcom has refused to allow open source drivers, and OpenWRT only uses open source. So installing any kind of OpenWRT on a Broadcom router will effectively cripple it, because even basic functions like WiFi will be unavailable due to the lack of drivers.
That sucks too because you miss out security fixes. I would rather run a secure and up to date firmware that leaks data to ASUS than one with known security exploits. If those were my only options.
I'd rather update it as well. But the routers are behind my ISP router and aren't externally accessible. The attack surface is smaller in that regard. I'm not happy with the thought of an unpatched router. Maybe I can hold out long enough for merlin to support my routers.
I dont think the latest few updates I did mentioned any security updates. Only bugfixes.
I'll tackle the problem when it presents itself I guess.
I'm sure asuswrt-merlin won't have this nonsense.
Routers aren't supported by merlin unfortunately :(
Do you mean modems?
I mean my Asus router models aren't supported by merlin. Only 1 of them functions as an actual router.