Asus Router app, Account Binding.

[AStaUK]

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?

 

[LimJK]

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)

 

[AStaUK]

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.

 

[jksmurf]

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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.

 

[terrywang]

Interestingly, on the latest Asuswrt-Merlin 3004.388.8_4
Binding it with the app didn't automatically turn WAN access on, CONFIRMED. I am yet to figure out the benefits of the bind.

 

[rung]

Interestingly, on the latest Asuswrt-Merlin 3004.388.8_4
Binding it with the app didn't automatically turn WAN access on, CONFIRMED. I am yet to figure out the benefits of the bind.

The one benefit I had read and unsuccessfully tried to use was transferring a registered Asus DDNS name from an old router to a new one. However it didn't work for me. So I had to reinitialize the old router, claim the name, unregister it, then hurry up and claim the name on the new router.

 

[terrywang]

The one benefit I had read and unsuccessfully tried to use was transferring a registered Asus DDNS name from an old router to a new one. However it didn't work for me. So I had to reinitialize the old router, claim the name, unregister it, then hurry up and claim the name on the new router.

I did similar thing to get the old <subdomain>.asuscomm.com back on the new AX86U PRO and immediately bind the account with Asus account, hopefully I won't need to deal with the process any more next time I upgrade.

Using the web UI to do the DDNS part is always unreliable. Logging into the router via SSH and do `service restart_ddns` fix the issue most of the time.