The Amazon reviews of Asus routers are near useless as all models are mixed up in a steam of reviews, with most reviewers failing to mention their model number. That’s why I came here. Excellent review by the way. There are 3 things I wanted to know most: 1. Can this piggy back off e.g. a hotel’s standard WiFi or a captive WiFi portal (where you have to log in) then redistribute the WiFi to multiple devices? 2. Having done the above, can the ax57 act as a VPN so that devices connecting to it are now using that VPN. 3. Can this router utilize popular VPN providers like NordVPN, Windscribe, etc?
Thank you for appreciating my work. I will try to answer your questions:
1. I don’t know. I didn’t test this scenario and can’t provide you useful information. Sorry! What it can surely do is use an Ethernet connection from a hotel room as the internet source and redistribute it to your device through Wi-Fi.
2. The router can act as a VPN so that all your connected devices can use that VPN.
3. The router can use NordVPN, CyberGhost, and other popular VPN services that offer OpenVPN configuration files for you to add to your router’s settings.
I hope this information helps.
I will also ask a contact at ASUS to see if that person can answer your first question.
Will let you know if I get more info,
Ciprian
Digital Citizen
Hi Noel,
I received a reply from an engineer at ASUS who said that this router can do what you want, using a feature named WISP mode, which is found in its firmware.
So, the answer to question Nr 1 is Yes, it can. 🙂
mike
9 days ago
jo one thing: not able to get that thing. to connect to android phone only able to provide mobile hot spot on channel 149.
the router does not see the mobile hot spot @ 5ghz ! bought in the eu.
they promoting the thing as travel router but see above + not able to create a 5ghz network with channel above 140 cuz no channels about 140 selectable (not there) + no way to change the country / “continent” in the settings..
+ the minimum should be this thing beeing able to connect to channel 149 / all channels… if its not able to create networks cuz “eu / us version and fcc shit.
pls can u contact you asus guy and ask wtf they did here. + fu** that fcc thing. you cant tell everyone hey here is a travel router and than this??
I’m not sure I understand what issue you’re having. I was able to create Wi-Fi on the 5 GHz using the 160 MHz channel bandwidth. Also, the control channel can be set to Auto, or you can choose a specific channel yourself.
EU samsung phone creates 5ghz wifi mobile hotspot on fixed channel 149. there is no way to change it on the samsung phone.
the asus-rt-ax57-go does not see channel 149 of the phone when using wisp mode. pls can u contact you asus guy and ask wtf they did here.
The Amazon reviews of Asus routers are near useless as all models are mixed up in a steam of reviews, with most reviewers failing to mention their model number. That’s why I came here. Excellent review by the way. There are 3 things I wanted to know most: 1. Can this piggy back off e.g. a hotel’s standard WiFi or a captive WiFi portal (where you have to log in) then redistribute the WiFi to multiple devices? 2. Having done the above, can the ax57 act as a VPN so that devices connecting to it are now using that VPN. 3. Can this router utilize popular VPN providers like NordVPN, Windscribe, etc?
Hello,
Thank you for appreciating my work. I will try to answer your questions:
1. I don’t know. I didn’t test this scenario and can’t provide you useful information. Sorry! What it can surely do is use an Ethernet connection from a hotel room as the internet source and redistribute it to your device through Wi-Fi.
2. The router can act as a VPN so that all your connected devices can use that VPN.
3. The router can use NordVPN, CyberGhost, and other popular VPN services that offer OpenVPN configuration files for you to add to your router’s settings.
I hope this information helps.
I will also ask a contact at ASUS to see if that person can answer your first question.
Will let you know if I get more info,
Ciprian
Digital Citizen
Hi Noel,
I received a reply from an engineer at ASUS who said that this router can do what you want, using a feature named WISP mode, which is found in its firmware.
So, the answer to question Nr 1 is Yes, it can. 🙂
jo one thing: not able to get that thing. to connect to android phone only able to provide mobile hot spot on channel 149.
the router does not see the mobile hot spot @ 5ghz ! bought in the eu.
they promoting the thing as travel router but see above + not able to create a 5ghz network with channel above 140 cuz no channels about 140 selectable (not there) + no way to change the country / “continent” in the settings..
+ the minimum should be this thing beeing able to connect to channel 149 / all channels… if its not able to create networks cuz “eu / us version and fcc shit.
pls can u contact you asus guy and ask wtf they did here. + fu** that fcc thing. you cant tell everyone hey here is a travel router and than this??
I’m not sure I understand what issue you’re having. I was able to create Wi-Fi on the 5 GHz using the 160 MHz channel bandwidth. Also, the control channel can be set to Auto, or you can choose a specific channel yourself.
the problem is exactly as written above.
EU samsung phone creates 5ghz wifi mobile hotspot on fixed channel 149. there is no way to change it on the samsung phone.
the asus-rt-ax57-go does not see channel 149 of the phone when using wisp mode. pls can u contact you asus guy and ask wtf they did here.
channel 149 is allowed in the eu. thx