Wireless Reviews

Features

One of the nicer things about the BC is that ASUS has given it most of the features found in its Broadcom-based routers. An obvious omission is the Game Boost menu with its WTF-based game performance enhancement features.

Blue Cave Landing page

Of concern to more buyers is that the full AiProtection suite is supported.

AiProtection menu

Adaptive QoS is also there, hidden under the Traffic Manager menu.

QoS Type Both Direction Both Auto Y

 

Adaptive QoS menu

A new menu (to me at least) is Alexa & IFTTT. You link your BC to Alexa using the former...

Alexa menu

...and IFTTT using the latter.

IFTTT menu

VPN also hasn't been forgotten with both PPTP and OpenVPN servers...

VPN PPTP Y IPsec N L2TP Y SSL N OpenVPN Y Notes Open VPN & PPTP servers supported. OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP client supported

OpenVPN server

...and PPTP, L2TP and OpenVPN clients. The composite screengrab below shows the Client tab and window that appears with a click of the Add Profile button.

VPN client options

The feature summaries below show other features I may not have described.

Features Type AC Port Speed 10/100/1000 WAN Ports 1 LAN Ports 4 CPU Intel (Lantiq) PXB4395EL (1.6 GHz, 2 cores) Switch in PXB4395E RAM (MB) 512 Flash (MB) 128 Firmware 3.0.1.4.383_19145 Storage Share Y Printer Share Y USB 3.0 Y Travel Router N

WAN Static Y Dynamic Y PPPoE Y PPTP Y L2TP Y WWAN Y Failover N Load Balance N Aggregation N IPv6 Y DDNS Y

Note VLANs and ability to enable/disable physical Ethernet ports are not supported.

Firewall Port Triggers Y DMZ Y URL Block Y Service Block Y Schedules Y

LAN DHCP Reserve Y VLAN N Port Control N