ASUS RT-N16 Router Review

👤by Connell Parr Comments 📅30-06-10
Configuring the RT-N16

Once I had connected the router’s three aerials, given the router power and connected it to the BT Home Hub, I was ready to begin setting it up. Inserting the included Utility and Manual CD I was presented with the following menu.


Having installed the utilities from the CD, I used the device discovery utility to find the RT-N16. Of course I could have typed the router’s IP address into a browser but should you have changed the IP address of the router (as can be seen I had to in order to stop a conflict with the Home Hub) this provides a definite way of knowing you can find the router and configure it.


Once logged into the control panel (with the standard admin/admin for username and password) I was presented with a network map. This network map shows a simple over view of how many computers or devices are connected (labelled clients), if a USB device is connected and the status of the connection to the internet. To the right of this is a quick settings bar where having clicked on “Clients” I could view all connected devices or having clicked on the router I can easily change the SSID of the router, the passphrase, what type of encryption to use for the wireless and a few more options.


Moving onto the features the RT-N16, this is a feature rich router! As well as AiDisk which Dave went over in his review of the RT-N13U, the RT-N16 allows media on USB storage to be streamed to UPnP devices and bandwidth management to ensure time critical traffic is given top priority.

Clicking the “Advanced Setting” option opens a plethora of settings. These range from security, to managing features and IP addresses to logs and port forwarding. Using these options you can setup all things from MAC address filtering, URL filtering and configure the FTP access of a USB storage device.



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