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Don’t worry about giving out your secret router password to guests or acquaintances. Every ASUS router lets you set up a private ‘Guest’ network with completely separate login credentials. Downloadmaster is a built-in torent client that can be installed on your ASUSWRT router in a single click. It can even intelligently resume downloads that you’ve started from your PC, after its been shut down. Adjust bandwidth between individual devices on the network to make sure one persons’ streaming or downloading doesn’t hog all your bandwidth.

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The devices from Asus have a niche segment of a loyal fanbase. Not only its ever so popular gaming series ROG but even the generic Zenfones are quite popular among the masses. Being able to checkmark all the prerequisites without creating a hole in your pockets, well there’s nothing much left to ask for. Moreover, these devices are quite an active players in custom development. From here, you can hit the volume down button on the phone a couple of times until you see “Recovery Mode”, and then hit the power button to enter it. You’ll want to use the volume rocker to select “apply update from ADB”, and then hit the power button again. If you want to go the same route I did and attain as fresh an Android OS as possible stock firmware, you’ll need to unlock your bootloader in order to install a custom ROM.

I used an RT-AC88U unit for the screenshots below, but you can apply these steps to flashing any other model using stock or Merlin. The process is always the same — pick the hardware and firmware of your choice. 2) Asus Clone Mobile officially provides all the stock firmware files given here. So, if you face any issues while flashing the stock firmware on your device, contact their support team.

For this article, we hand-tested some of the best ASUS routers for any budget. Personally, I use real Linux as a router, and a separate WiFi access point behind it that gets as little trust as I can manage. If you want to play with openwrt, it’s a little saner to have two routers.

You can not downgrade to the lower version if your phone has an Android 8 or higher version. If you want to downgrade to the lower version, please go to the nearest Asus service center. Do note that the above procedure does not Install Stock Recovery it only installs the stock ROM.