I heard some stories about the Asus WL-700gE, aka “the bittorrent router” a couple of months ago. It was announced as the ultimate gadget for torrent freaks, so I decided to buy one as soon as it was available. That was three weeks ago.
After two weeks of extensive testing I think I’m able to write a proper review (of the bt part). Lets start with a general overview of the specs:
bittorrent router asus
# 160GB Built internal 3.5″ Hard Drive
# 3 USB 2.0 ports
# Web/FTP Server
# Photo Album/Message Board Wizard
# Auto bandwidth management (downloading + web browsing)
# Plug ‘n Share USB Storage + RAID mirroring
# iTunes Server + UpnP AV Server
# Power usage (approx) 30watts peak (restarting router) and 15watts “idle”
and a lot more
The router comes with a setup utility, thus configuring the router is pretty easy. The goal of this article is to review the bittorrent related functionalities of the router, but I have to say that the router does pretty much everything it promises. To name a few things:
# The Itunes server works like a charm, and is very useful if you want to access your mp3 collection with other gadgets or computers.
# The FTP server allows you to create multiple users with separate access levels
# The plug and play USB backup works like it should.
# The Wireless signal is excellent, it has no problem to bypass the two steel-enforced concrete floors in my house.
But now the Bittorrent part. The Asus WL-700gE comes with a “download master” utility that supports ftp, http, and bittorrent downloads. There are two ways to download torrents, you can upload a torrent with the “download master” utility on your pc or you can access the “download master” in your web browser.
