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AStaUK

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I’ve been taking a look at the Asus Router app for iOS and one of things it allows you to do is to bind your Google account (in my case) to my router, but I can’t seem to find any explanation as to what it does, does anyone have any info?
 
I’ve been taking a look at the Asus Router app for iOS and one of things it allows you to do is to bind your Google account (in my case) to my router, but I can’t seem to find any explanation as to what it does, does anyone have any info?
Some weeks back, I was curious so I played with it. From my observation, basically,
Benefit:
  • it allows you to managed multiple Routers / AiMesh Network (I managed my 2 daughters Family Networks)
Risks: I observed Binding arrangement, by default, automatically turns on WAN Access to the bonded Routers. That was not acceptable to me!
  • I manually, TURNOFF WAN Access via the respective Router's GUI
Nett: with that, I can benefit from using the Asus App to manage multiple AiMesh Router sites, but, only on Premise or over VPN (WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPSec, or Instant Guard)
 
Yes, I also noticed that WAN access was enabled along with the app, I also turned it off. Otherwise I’m still to work out the benefit of it, it doesn’t replace the standard router logIn or link It to a cloud account, so why have it.
 
Risks: I observed Binding arrangement, by default, automatically turns on WAN Access to the bonded Routers. That was not acceptable to me!
  • I manually, TURNOFF WAN Access via the respective Router's GUI
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I recently tried this App out again after a shortish hiatus but did not experience the automatic turning ON of the WAN Access (it does however ask if you want to do this to which I replied NO).

Has anyone else had the same (recent) experience, just want to make sure the behaviour has indeed changed.

Reason to use the App is to try out Alexa integration.

k.
 

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