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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. news? by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't anything new. According to the RIAA, you can download music without even owning a computer.

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    1. 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.

  2. Natural extension by Bromskloss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, now let's put into it _all_ functionality we expect from a computer! ;-)

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  3. Where is TheTorrent? by junglee_iitk · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's with not using the word torrent in the whole summary?

    Here is the part of the article:
    "Applications lets you enable/disable the router's inbuilt applications - Download Master, Download Daemon, Download Share, Photo Album and Media Server, as well as do some basic configuration like specifying the port range and default seeding time for the BitTorrent client, and the default web server port. You can also configure the settings for an attached USB webcam, enabling to run via a web interface, and even turning it into a security camera controlled by the router, which can enable motion detection and email alerts. And finally, locally-attached USB printers can be configured and shared out - ready for connection from UPnP-enabled clients."

    And here is the link :)
    http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/939/5/page_5_syst em_features_configuration/index.html

  4. Power consumption? by slapyslapslap · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have to assume that power consumption is going to go up to power this thing. If I was turning off my PC to save power, I don't think I'd want this thing.

  5. 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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  6. Re:Why not just use a computer? by livewire98801 · · Score: 5, Informative

    $260 on newegg
    linky

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  7. Is it vocab or grammar nazi? by ArcherB · · Score: 5, Funny
    from TFA:
    There's a rapidly-expanding section of the home electronics market which revolves around "devices". The reason for the parentheses is that it's difficult to know how to label these gadgets, because they don't fit easily into any pre-defined categories.


    Isn't a parentheses one of these ( )?
    And aren't these " " called quotation marks?

    Sorry, but it's hard to take an article seriously when the author doesn't know the difference.

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  8. Re:Why not just use a computer? by xQx · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your script are belong to us.

    It does take a painfully long time to hack your computer tho, I'm like:

    CD \windows
    dir
    [wait for you to disconnect from the web, plug the modem into the PC, run 0wned script, plug back into the net]
    cd system32
    dir
    [again...]

    Well, that's where I'm up to anyway...

  9. This morning I saw that HIV was cured by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I thought wow, this is by far the best news of the day. Then I saw that there is a new drug just like morphine, only non-addictive. And then I thought, wow, I thought AIDs being cured was a big deal, but that's nothing compared to this. And now I see that I can download porno movies without even turning on my computer. God I love /.

  10. 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.

  11. Re:That's nothing! by AoT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but it is just because they hate sharing so much.

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