Hi,
Hoping someone can help answer a few questions prior to purchase. I have old Netgear routers, buggy and now slow however although the software is generally awful they had a couple of nice features going for them:
1. Address reservation: I do this to try to avoid IP clashes but also to group devices to make things easier to manage. I know devices don't always agree by reserved IPs but this is not going to be my point. One of the things Netgear did well was to allow selection of a device from a table and reserve an IP for it. Although this was slow and clunky generally unreserved devices were at the bottom of the table making them easy to identify. I notice Asus use a drop down box. If a device is chosen and an IP given does that device no longer appear in the drop down, i.e. is it easy to identify those without already reserved IP's?
2. Naming: Netgear also allowed a device (client) name to be set during address reservation. I'm guessing from what I've seen they are two different screens for the Asus router?
3. Access control by MAC: This info I can't find. There appears to be wireless MAC whitelist/blacklist control but not LAN. Again Netgear allow any device, connected by any means, to be blocked. So anyone plugging in ethernet (yes, I know they obviously need physical access somewhere) could automatically be blocked. Is there a similar concept on this router?
Hoping someone can help. Have a good day.
