Merlin is just modified stock firmware, so no need to flash back to original 'AsusWRT', but a reset is recommended first if you've enabled a lot of services (and reset after flashing of course). But whatever the policy says, when they add a vague sentence somewhere about how they will use the data and it says something like 'we may also use it for our own business purposes', that's them saying 'but forget everything else, we're gonna do whatever we want to do'."Use ASUS Firmware Restoration Tool for ASUS router initial flash (*.TRX file)" In a privacy policy it sounds good when it has some language like 'we will protect your data and only use or handle it securely'. But the privacy policy doesn't say they won't save it, and it does say they will use it in support of their own interests, aka they may use/sell it commercially. All of that is required for the services from Trend Micro, sure.
I think Trend Micro is another issue though, when I read through their privacy policy it made clear that they will collect your data including sites visited, metadata about what clients you have on your own LAN, application behaviors, your network architecture/topology, information from 'suspicious emails' and 'suspicious' attachments. The 5 Ghz SSID serves our work PCs, and I don't care to let our employers have a device on the LAN side of my firewall either. The third 2.4 Ghz SSID serves devices like TVs which don't need LAN access since they can WiFi Direct for screen shares, with no bandwidth limiting. The second 2.4 Ghz SSID serves IOT type devices that I don't care to have poking around in my LAN, and which don't need much bandwidth so I have it severely limited. Use this forum for posts about all versions of this alternative firmware for ASUS wireless routers. One of the 2.4 Ghz SSIDs serves guests, and I have this moderately bandwidth limited so they don't take too much. Basically, it's all just to protect my LAN by isolating untrusted devices which are going to be connected to my LAN for internet connectivity. Just in case you only read this far to find out why I have four guest networks. It seems like I'm going to be doing that also. Why doesn't Asus just copy their work into AsusWRT? Does anyone know of a fix other than Merlin? I noticed in another post about AsusWRT bugs that someone said they just installed Merlin and never looked back since it fixed "95% of my issues". This is troubling though, why would such a basic bug exist on the stock firmware when a group of programmers has made an open source project that has fixed those bugs. In the end, I installed the latest version of Merlin, and now the guest networks all work as expected. Interestingly, the 5 Ghz guest network operated as expected. Which defeats the entire purpose of the guest network. The 2.4 Ghz guest networks are not allowing the connected devices to access the internet, however, unless I set "Access Intranet" = enable. I did make sure I was running the latest firmware. Developed by Eric Sauvageau, its primary goals are to enhance the existing firmware. This is the basic purpose of the guest network concept, to allow devices internet access without having access to your devices on your LAN. Asuswrt-Merlin is an alternative, customized version of that firmware. I have a GT-AX6000 that I just purchased last week, and I have three 2.4 Ghz and one 5 Ghz guest networks setup, all four of them were restricting intranet via the setting "Access Intranet" = disable in the guest network GUI.
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