The Parental Controls are a very important part of every router which assume the role of filtering the content that all the members of the family can access (blocking adult or malicious websites), as well as when the Internet connection will be enabled (so your children won’t stay up too late on schooldays). The Parental … Read more
Very recently Linksys went under fire because of an info disclosure exploit which seems to affect around 20,000 devices and, since the manufacturer has yet to release a patch for its affected models, the only solution, so far, is to flash the routers with a custom firmware, such as OpenWRT (Project LEDE). If you want … Read more
In this article we’re going to explore some of the most popular (and easiest) ways to reset a Linksys router to the default factory settings (via software and hardware means). Some of the reason why you may want to restore a router to its default settings is when you want to do a fresh installation … Read more
Let’s say you got your brand new Linksys router, you plug in the power and the Internet cables, connect the device to a computer (via an Ethernet cable) and … nothing seems to work. Before sending the router to the tech heaven (or back to the retailer), here are some of the most common Linksys … Read more
After I tested the Linksys WRT3200ACM several times throughout a period of four months and documenting any change that may have occurred in its performance, I decided to leave behind the default firmware and install OpenWRT in order to test some of its capabilities, from which, the popular adblocker (obviously, these steps will also work … Read more
The Asus RT-AC86U and the WRT3200ACM are two relatively high-end routers, both being well regarded by a large portion of users, the former router being the successor to the popular dual band Asus RT-AC68U (featuring most of the new Second Wave 802.11ac features along with some gaming-related enhancements), while the latter is a bit older … Read more