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Download Torrents With Your PC Turned Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-your-hardware-with-steroids dept.

Mr.Tweak writes to tell us that they have a review posted of a new wireless router from ASUS. What sets this router apart from others is that in addition to being a wireless router/gateway is that it also functions as a thin client system with a pre-installed 160 GB IDE drive (no SATA support sorry) and three USB 2.0 ports for peripherals. If you happen to use one of those USB ports for another drive the router will also support RAID 0 and 1, quite a bit more than the average router.

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  1. Smoothwall anyone? by Vrejakti · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's so new about this? http://smoothwall.org/, http://ipcop.org/ and http://m0n0.ch/wall/ could easily be custimized to perform a similar function. Easy as installing a bittorrent application, and using SSH.

    By the way, these 3 options happen to be free and upgradable.

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  2. But it needs...... by ericdano · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It needs more than the ability to run Bittorrent. You need something like Peer Guardian running to filter out all those "bad" IP Addresses.

    It's more of a NAS meets Wireless router. Which is cool, but....yeah....so?

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  3. Why not just use a geek? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "It seems like a full computer would be better than this in just about every aspect--price, power consumption, etc."

    Heat! Time! Remember not everyone's a geek, and shouldn't have to be to get some of the offered features.

  4. Re:news? by Uruviel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's not shoot ourself in the foot now. There are perfectly legitimate uses for torrents. Like downloading your favorite Linux distro. Which you could then install on your machine when finished with a wake-on-lan call from that very same router. See the possibilities are endless and all you think of is music.

  5. Security Ramifications by duplo1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find it crazy that people are running more and more applications directly on their Internet router. The more applications and services there are running, the more likely a serious security flaw will be found in the device. Do they really think this through? This is just going to be another attack vector for script kiddies to own peoples' networks. Several months after they release this, another vendor will be releasing a seperate firewall/router to protect this device.

  6. Re:news? by TheDugong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Torrents have never killed anyone.

  7. Re:news? by KDR_11k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Explosives are restricted to those who have a legitimate use for them. Who has Bittorrent but no legitimate uses for it?

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