TheLyppardMan
Very Senior Member
Excuse my lack of understanding of this but I just want to ask something relating to security, which will probably be easy for our forum experts.
This evening, I was curious to find out about the ASUS VPN Fusion feature, so I installed the ASUS official firmware briefly and set it up using my Surfshark account, of which I still have a few months left on my subscription.
It did work, but it seemed to reduce some of the protection that you get with Cloudflare (at least, that's what it looked like when I went on their test site) and also, GRC ShieldsUP! showed port 443 as being open and with a strong warning message. So I suppose, what I am asking is, what are the security gains and losses using something like the ASUS VPN Fusion and also, if that is recommended, is there a similar feature in the Merlin firmware?
This is what I saw when using VPN Fusion:
and this is what I normally see:
This evening, I was curious to find out about the ASUS VPN Fusion feature, so I installed the ASUS official firmware briefly and set it up using my Surfshark account, of which I still have a few months left on my subscription.
It did work, but it seemed to reduce some of the protection that you get with Cloudflare (at least, that's what it looked like when I went on their test site) and also, GRC ShieldsUP! showed port 443 as being open and with a strong warning message. So I suppose, what I am asking is, what are the security gains and losses using something like the ASUS VPN Fusion and also, if that is recommended, is there a similar feature in the Merlin firmware?
This is what I saw when using VPN Fusion:
and this is what I normally see: