Asus routers

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Asus routers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Desired network configuration was impossible to achieve with Asus2025-10-28
App buttons lead to accepting Trend Micro EULAs by accident, and features require EULA acceptance2020-11-23
Device names with a hyphen saved, then broke the web UI's device list2017-05-10
Tunnel can't get through the firewall; fixing it means manual telnet iptables edits that get overwritten on update2014-02-12