The path to open-source wrt ac wireless routing-3

Let's take a look at the built-in user interface and detailed functions of Netgear to see what it can do.

Start

Open the machine and connect to your computer with a network cable. in the address bar of your browser, enter the default vro192.168.address 192.168.1.1 of Netgear. During the first use, it has a wizard to help you use it for the first time, you can complete the basic configuration step by step. The default management account is admin and the password is password. Then, it enters its home page. If you only use the original firmware, change the admin password immediately.

Familiarize yourself with its interface structure. The firmware version is displayed in the upper-right corner. If it is not the latest version and your vro is connected to the Internet, it will prompt you for updates, which is quite convenient, download and install the SDK and restart it once. Display language switching is also quite convenient.

Its main function layout is also the most popular. The left side is the function menu, and the center is the setting part. All functions are divided into two major parts: basic and advanced. The six icons in the middle of the home page give a clear and intuitive expression of the current system status. However, I don't quite agree with the method of explicitly displaying the wireless key on the home page. It may not affect general users.

Advanced Homepage

Let's take a look at the advanced homepage, which provides more detailed information about the current system status. There is only one visitor network (2.4 and 5 GHz can be set separately ).

I remember that Asus ac66/68u has three built-in wireless networks that support 2.4 and 5 Ghz respectively, and can control the time, traffic, and speed respectively. In this regard, r7000 lags far behind, in fact, the hardware is similar. In terms of functions, Netgear lags behind Asus in terms of development. However, I didn't buy it to use the original firmware, so it doesn't matter. For those who want to have as many random functions as possible and don't want to worry about it, it's right to choose Asus.

I remember a public wireless network called darejoin, which means you dare to connect to it? It is estimated that the vast majority of people will not try to connect, unless they want to compete with each other. Therefore, if there is no support for the firmware function, you do not dare to play like this, or you will not be affected.

Parental Control

One of my favorite features of Netgear is parental control, which is only available in English. I don't know if it can be used in China. Click any parent control icon, go to the following webpage:

The main benefit of this feature is that you can set it as long as you can connect to the Internet, without having to log on to the computer as you would on Windows/Mac, and providing web page Classification, parents can easily control their children's Internet access at different stages.

Time Control

The parental control function is supplemented by the time control of the network connection provided by the vro. It can be said that the parent can basically meet certain requirements. See:

It can be seen that it only supports one global schedule (Schedule) configuration, but there are not many, this is not as good as the Open Source WRT.

USB/NAS:

Two interfaces: 3.0 is best connected to fast devices such as USB hard disks, and 2.0 is used for slow devices such as printers. In general, r7000 does not support cloud access for common users (FTP/HTTP, printers, shared disks, and backups), but does not support Intranet MAC/Windows system backup.

According to his advanced settings, FTP and HTTP/HTTPS should be supported.

According to Netgear's readyshare introduction, the NAS function is implemented mainly by bonjour. Therefore, you need to install it separately on Windows-a separate bonjour installation package exists in the iTunes for Windows installation package, mac already comes with it. With bonjour support, both Windows and Mac can automatically find network hard disks and printers.

On the readyshare network of Netgear, readyshare cloud is supported. It allows Netgear router users to access any personal devices connected to the Internet (Windows, Mac, IOS, Android, and other devices) access the hard disk on the USB port of the router, but r7000 does not support it!

However, its unique function is to support windows automatic backup to a USB hard disk, called vault. Of course, it needs to install its specialized software. On the Mac end, it also supports time machines) backup, which is better than open source WRT.

It also supports sharing of the dlna standard and the iTunes library-only supports music, which is better than open source WRT.

Ddns Dynamic DNS service support:

It only supports Netgear, no-IP, and dyndns. Compared with the open-source WRT, it is a little small, but it is sufficient. Both are free. But in the same way, only one can be set, and the tomato can have two, because these free ddns is generally not as good as the business in terms of stability and timeliness, so there are multiple best.

IPv6 support:

VPN settings:

Wireless Network Settings:

Here, multiple time control parameters can be set for each frequency band separately. I do not know how to deal with the possible conflict with the above global configuration, and no test is performed. In tomato, the time control options for different frequencies are not displayed, and Netgear may win.

Traffic control:

This function is useful to users who strictly control the customer's traffic to ISP vendors.

Port ing

There are so many of us.

Remote control:

I wonder if encryption is supported. You can download a NETGEAR software to your computer and use it for remote control.

Visitor wireless:

There are only simple switch/password settings, and no time schedule can be used. I don't know whether the time schedule in the above wireless network settings controls the guest network at the same time.

Lan Configuration:

DHCP here

QoS configuration:

Three parts: WMM, upload and download, seemingly simple.

Connection Device monitoring:

Clear