If the title of this post means anything to you, then odds are you already know where to find the setting below:
Yeah, I know you probably think it’s a good idea to enable HTTPS login on your router so rogue clients on your LAN can’t steal your login info. In reality, the odds of that happening are pretty small, and I daresay a compromised client is more likely to attack other clients on the LAN – which are probably set to allow access from other local clients – than it is to attack your router. But I digress.
I’m not sure if what follows is due to how most browsers handle HTTPS certificates or a bug on ASUS’ part, but enabling HTTPS can easily lead to this on your next login attempt:
Among the joys of the above message:
- The web page never refreshes
- The client this message appears on isn’t disconnected from the router (thankfully)
- I’m not sure how one would “use the updated IP address and port number” as the RT-N66U doesn’t tell you what those are at any point during the process
Anyway, if you do happen to find yourself in the above predicament, you can fix it by switching to a different browser on any machine on your LAN and accessing the URL the error message is at. This should log you in to the router. Then switch back to HTTP and all will be right with the world again.
UPDATE 1: According to hotdog, point #3 above can be worked around by using http://router.asus.com or https://router.asus.com:8443 instead. I haven’t verified this with HTTPS enabled, but it’s worth a shot, especially if you’re doing remote admin as he said.
I switched it to https on an RT-n65U. I was able to re-access the router via https://192.168.1.1:8443 I was able to do everything as before but I could not set it back to http as you’ve indicated. I finally restore factory defaults to get my http access back.
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Sorry that didn’t work for you, perhaps that’s because you have a different router model?
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I have the Asus AC88U and under the “Administration” on the menu and “System” tab – the router displays the URL, allows you to change the port, and set a timer.
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The new login the router may be looking for is your public IP address but depending on what service you have this address mat be changing at a set interval dictated by your ISP. Also the port is user definable and I myself have inadvertently changed this with a trackpad set too sensitive. The imbedded DDNS feature on a lot of ASUS routers will give you access no matter the IP address by way of a unique login through their DNS or others like NOIP.COM.
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Thank you ever so much, asus rt n66r here, you saved my bacon! Many internet points to you good sir
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You just have to clear your browser’s cache and you are good to go.
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If you’re using Firefox, then you need to clear your offline user data for entries that match the router (by name or IP)
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In your Firefox preferences, in the security tab, at the bottom, there are the offline data. Find your router address and delete it. Reconnect to your router. You may have an invalid certificate warning, add the exception and you should be able to connect. Procedure differt on another browser, but I was blocked in both firefox and safari.
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I can confirm that using https://192.168.1.1:8443 also allowed me to access my DSL-AC68U after mistakenly thinking I’d be sensible and use https. Why on earth Asus don’t fix this is a mystery since it is an otherwise outstanding device.
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I was able to reconnect by erasing all stored data from the 192.168.X.X address from my web browser. Perhaps the router modifies the security certificates when updating firmware?
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That’s a great idea. How do you erase stored data for specific domains? Stupid question, I know, but I’ve actually never done that before.
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I own the ASUS RT N66R (I think it is a the same version as the U except for the labeling to prevent price matching).
The port number is given to you when you enable https (secured); you can change to a customized port number.
Initially I saw the same exact message and then I typed:
https://192.168.1.1:8443/
and I webpage asking me to give permission. I did so and
a pop up login screen showed up. I logged in and regained access.
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Thanks for the tip!
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Your site was tweeted by a friend yesterday. Decided I’d check it out. Best decision ever.
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I am unable to connect to the admin page. I tried connecting to https://192.168.1.1:8443 but I get an error that it cannot connect.
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The same crap.
What can we do to fix, do not have access, you need to write in Asus, what they think about it?!
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It appears that the certificate installed in the router is not accepted. Fortunately I had safari installed (never use it but now came in handy) which automagically accepts certs it can’t check the identity of(most browsers reject it by default). This allowed me to navigate to https://192.168.1.1:8433
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That’s interesting! Thanks for the insight, man!
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i don’t know about you, but if you do a lot of “remote administration” outside of your LAN, wouldn’t you want https? although you won’t have a site certificate, it’s still better than plain text via http through the WAN.
the default https port on the ASUS RT-N66U Router is 8443 but you can change this to whatever you want. i believe there’s even a built-in domain name so you can access your router by typing in
http://router.asus.com
https://router.asus.com:8443
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I don’t do remote administration, but I can see where HTTPS would be absolutely necessary for that.
Thanks for the URL alternatives, I’ve added your tip to the original post.
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Thank you for this comment! I had enabled HTTPS but couldn’t connect to the router with ipaddress:8443. I was almost ready to factory reset it thinking http was messed up. Based on your comment, I went to https://router.asus.com:8443 and got right in.
Wonder why it doesn’t work by ip? Anyway, thanks for your helpful post.
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Glad to help…. anything’s better than the time consuming factory reset.
Sent from Windows Mail
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it didnt work by IP because you still need to type https://IP:8443 for it to work. By using just the IP it assumes http unless specified.
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One may also try:
http://www.asusnetwork.net/
https://www.asusnetwork.net:8443
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Awesome, thanks! I’ve added those to the original post.
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hey you need to remove the Asusnetwork.net it’s a scam site and tells the user to install java. unsure if it’s infected.
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Removed, thanks.
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I have to disagree, regarding removal of http://www.asusnetwork.net. If you look up the domain registry, you see that it’s owned by an Australian company, has been since 03/28/2012, expires next year on 03/28/2019. Sure seems legit to me. The URL does work for me on my RT-AC68U and I’ve never been prompted to enable anything – it just takes me to my router.
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none of those work for the rt-ac68r. If you log in with router.asus.com you get this message:
Settings have been updated. Web page will now refresh.
Changes have been made to the IP address or port number. You will now be disconnected from RT-AC68R.
To access the settings of RT-AC68R, reconnect to the wireless network and use the updated IP address and port number.
So basically I have no idea what to do short of reset to factory specs. I am so bummed out about this, having just put my buffalo n router to a shady retirement. It never gave me any problems, but it didn’t have 5g which so far is useless anyway.
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obviously its telling me to use router.asus.com:8443 or whatever, except that doesn’t work. Maybe if I start at 0001 and go all the way to 9999 I will find one, lol. very frustrating.
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Unlike Netgear – for example – it seems ASUS router OSes differ widely from model to model. I’m guessing that’s why it’s not working for you.
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Well I regained access when I went to IE plugged in https://192.168.1.1:8443 …… It stated that the certificate was invalid but I gained access.
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Well, I can tell you this, from experience when working for a large mainframe company, the pressure to release products–either for competition or to stay on schedules promised to customers- who bought based on those promises, it seems a lot of the 802/11ac stuff is not ready, is full of bugs, is unstable, and basically, hit and miss. If its not the router its the adapter cards, the 7260 in the laptop or the others –all with driver issues. Its pathetic. I am going to send it back and either stick with n for now or go with cisco small business stuff. Its a little more money but it works and its something that can be serviced vs “try loading new firmware”. “try doing a factory reset and reloading”, all of which require hours of setting up printers again and wireless devices through the house. NOT IMPRESSED ASUS. Not impressed.
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Well a lot of 802.11ac stuff isn’t certified (yet) to begin with, even though the spec’s been finalized. I’m still on .11n on this end for that reason, and also because I tend to use routers until they break.
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FCXV
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I get the dreaded “Settings updated” error after about 5 minutes of being logged in to my NT65U, once it happens I can’t get in on any browser from any machine.
The only thing I’ve found so far is to power cycle the router which is less than ideal given that I only get 5 more minutes.
None of the above seems to help and, for me, https is already turned off.
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That should be N65U, not NT.
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I had the same problem on my N65U after upgrading the firmware to version 3.0.0.4.376.1665. I solved it by downgrading to version 3.0.0.4.374.4422 (both firmware versions was downloaded from the Asus website).
In order to upload the firmware to the router before the “settings updated” error is thrown (for me it happened after 10-30 seconds) I went directly to http://192.168.1.1/Advanced_FirmwareUpgrade_Content.asp
Also, I got this error with https turned off.
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Thanks for the info! Due to external security concerns I wouldn’t recommend downgrading your firmware though.
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I have been reading some of the forums on this issue, and it seems like I need to download a different firmware. I can’t access my asus config page no matter what I type in. Also I can’t download the proper firmware because I can no longer access the internet ( I’ve reset everything possible and I’m using an Ethernet connection)
Any suggestions
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You could also just factory reset the router.
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I am having the same issue. None of the suggested URLs will load either, even on 2 separate PCs. Not even on my phone using Safari! Guess I am going to have to reset my router to factory. Quite annoying!
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It’s nice to see when I search “asus router ssh can’t login” on google your post shows up at the top of the list. I’ll still keep ssh enabled as I have reasons to use that level of security and will just login via the ssh port/link as posted in the comments — thanks for posting!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Isn’t it funny that since those “old” models, this strange behavior is still present on RT-AC87U?
Yes, this is my router and yes “To access the settings of RT-AC87U, reconnect to the wireless network and use the updated IP address and port number.” is my message.
That message was on Firefox. No other approach was useful, by name or by IP.
Started IE, used IP and I’m in.
After that, I’ve deleted all that I’ve found in Firefox options, related to certificates from the router.
Result: was able to enter by IP.
I’m still looking after a solution to use the name.
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Most router OEMs use basically the same firmware for all their devices with features enabled or disabled per model.
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The only problem here is that “please refresh” page is set to cache, which is admittedly a pretty hilarious (but still real) problem.
Ctrl+Shift+R
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actually, you’ll notice in firefox, if you look in options -> advanced -> network tab, the asus router is storing offline data which is “intercepting” your requests for access from the router. You can clear the offline data, refresh the webpage and it should give no problems.
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Thanks for that tip!
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huge! thanks! worked on my rt-ac68r!
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“in firefox, if you look in options -> advanced -> network tab, the asus router is storing offline data which is “intercepting” your requests for access from the router. You can clear the offline data, refresh the webpage and it should give no problems.”
This works for me in firefox, too, for an ac66u. I had this problem several times. Maybe after firmware updates.
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After accessing the router via https://router.asus.com:8443/ I was unable to restore access via IP by just switching the authentication back to HTTP but after I went to the LAN IP tab under the LAN section and hit Apply without changing anything it magically worked again.
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Thank you Mouse!! OMG I’ve been looking all over the net for the answer and http://www.asusnetwork.net/ is the ONLY thing that works!! THANK YOU!!! ❤
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Fun fact: it’s your cr*ppy Firefox (and I’d bet Chrome does it too, but firefox is getting really low in terms of quality, like only unintelligent decisions were accepted there – no surprise – a big business-in-the-first-place corporation trying to pose as open source underground)!
Serious browsers don’t do it (Opera Presto, IE). Flawed design of the above browsers and the state of the art web design based solely on bad practices forced me to move to Firefox (using Chrome as a backup for even worse web design) and Opera for this simple stuff.
One step forward, three backward. At least we have javascript for animated “parallax” effect and tracking how many of our friends clicked a certain crippled site. On the other hand just a mere gazillion of workarounds can get us to normal simple web browsing. And we of course get router web-configs as a mobile “apps”. How uncool is that!
Funny is that the search function of the FF address bar does not work on misspelled websites, however FF changes the manually entered IP “intelligently”. It’s not that easy to restart the misbehaving router in the café you are at anymore. You must ask the not really helpful bartender to perform the tedious task of flipping the switch on and off for you…or still fire up your less foxy trusted browser for this task.
Part of a fail on ASUS’ side is that 192.168.1.1 might not be complete without “/Main_Login.asp”. No index.htm(.php) for you mush!
router.asus.com is also funny – needless, but quite a workaround for the aforementioned browser behavior, but makes your nonstandard IP settings useless, as anyone can enter “router.asus.com” without having to know if it’s 192.168.1.1 or 192.140.0.100. ah the good old days!
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I am using the RT-AC3200 and ran into the same problem using firefox-browser in Linux. https://router.asus.com:8443 did not work for me either. I installed google chrome then and could access the routers web-interface again on both https://192.168.1.1:8443 and https://router.asus.com:8443.
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I use Firefox and have the https login problem on my RT-N66W. Frikkin annoying!!
The easiest workaround i use is to change to “Private Mode” in Firefox and then i can access router with https://192.168.1.1:8443 because then you get the option to make an exeption of the faulty security cerificate.
So:
1, swich to Private Mode in Firefox
2, enter https://192.168.1.1:8443
3, click Advance
4, click Make an exeption
5, click Confirm security exeption
DONE
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Thank you for that tip.
I don’t use Firefox, but found a similar solution in Google Chrome (I have a localized version, and apologize if the english words below are not quite right).
1. Click on the icon to the left in the address line showing e.g. https://192.168.1.1:8443
2. In Exceptions: Pop-up-windows: Select ‘Always enable on this website’
3. Refresh the page
4. Ignore the warning and click the “advanced” link
5. Now enter the login page of the asus router.
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Same here, I have logged a trouble ticket with ASUS, on an RT-AC5300 which is a cracking router. Except when you enable https for remote admin.
🙂
Will update on results of trouble ticket as and when.
Adrian.
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Thank you Thank you Thank you! That solve the problem. Now I can access AICloud, use the Router app remotely no issues. I have just about given up after configuring so many ports forwarding rules through my modem and router wondering why the heck it was not working. The ASUS app try to force you to use http – so just cancel out of it when it asks.
Thanks again,
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np, glad it helped 🙂
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With havin so much content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or
copyright infringement? My website has a lot of exclusive content I’ve either created myself or outsourced but
it seems a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my permission. Do you
know any techniques to help protect against content from
being stolen? I’d genuinely appreciate it.
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There’s nothing you can do to prevent that except hope Google & Bing rank your content higher because it’s original. AFAIK Google already has measures in place that mostly mitigate the problem and it hasn’t been a huge deal for me.
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Thank you very much.
I was can’t disable this ******* https on my router. When I try to disable it, router redirect me to logout page and is no changes was save on router.asus.com:8443.
But when i go in asusnetwork.net:8443 I was disable https.
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I finally reached the router login page but it’s not accepting my username/password any longer, which I’m sure is correct. Is there anything I can try before having to do a factory reset? Please help!
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My advise to all of you is install Merlin WRT firmware if your device is on the compatibility list:
https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/
This keeps exactly the same GUI and features as the original ASUS but fixes so many things on the buggy ASUS firmware it is unreal.
I even donated money to the guy!
Adrian.
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Merlin WRT not solve the problem, if https is enable I can’t log in via https from wifi device. But still I can log in via LAN. You can set BOTH in settings then you can log in by http from wifi or WAN. Maybe there is problem with certificate because few months ago all worked great.
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Hi Cathy. Given telnet is enabled on the router, you can putty into the router (over telnet) to test your credentials.
Further, once you are logged in you can run:
nvram show | grep http
In the output, you will see your username, decrypted password, lan port to be used for https, etc.
I was able to fix my issue by using:
nvram set “https_lanport=8443”
(As I chose a non-listening port when I changed to https.)
Good luck!
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Clear up offline info saved for your router in the browser and you will be able to login.
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I just want to thank you. You saved me I was decided to make hard reset of the router. https://router.asus.com:8443 work great and I’m keeping https login enabled because I access router over the internet.
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I was able to fix this in Firefox by going to “Tools –> Options –> Privacy –> Click ‘clear your recent history’ –> select Time range to Clear: Everything, Cache checkbox, and Offline WebSite Data checkbox”. After clearing, I enabled both https and http access in my router just to be safe for the future.
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Like everyone else here is saying, Thanks! You saved my butt! 🙂 Didn’t think to remember the port number displayed in the setup. Once I had that info I was able to log back in. Asus RT-N16 here. Thanks again!
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On my RT-AC68U, https://router.asus.com:8443 did NOT work, but https://www.asusnetwork.net:8443 DID work. I didn’t try the cache clearing, but I’ve done so in the past. I’m just saying, there is a difference in how those links work, at least on my router (latest FW update).
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Thanks for that had this problem today on my RT-AC56U router. could not log in.
the link with the 8443 on end worked and reset the router to accept both
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OMG thank you! Saved my as*. Using a different browser and machine didn’t work but going to https://router.asus.com:8443 did. Yeay! Able to gain access again and switched back to http. Not liking the whole scary “not secure” aspect when going to the router settings page and having just experienced a “This network is compromised by an unknown 3rd party that may view and alter your communications. An Attacker is attempting to decrypt this network and may view and alter your communications” scare from Nortons on 3-27-18, I found a wonderful suggestion on ASUS Support webpage: “How to enable HTTPS and create a certification by using ASUS Let’s Encrypt?” Posted just a few months ago. Ummm….yeah, no. Not really so wonderful. Clearly I don’t know what the hay I’m doing! Thanks cutie! Could NOT have fixed this w/out your posting!
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article was helpful and so were the comments – thanks! I also found this link while searching that might be of use:
How to enable HTTPS and create a certification by using ASUS Let’s Encrypt?
https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1034294/
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This https://router.asus.com:8443 saved me.
I forgot I set up HTTPS for LAN logins.
It would’ve been a pain to reset all the settings I had made there…
Thanks.
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This this the magic mystery I’ve been looking for. Router was new worked great. Using the asus app. Get a mesaage and it suggested turning on https. Cool right? No NO NO… When you turn it on it freeking locks you out of the router login. App will update and bingo it reverts back to. Then the massage pops back up when you login via the app hey turn on https. Did it again locked me out. 3rd time app updates and it goes back to default. Leave it alone and it work all the time. Knock on wood 2 months and I can get it. Before I was going bat sh|t crazy. Reboot factory reset. Asus blaming comcrook for blocking ip. Yada Yada…. It’s that stupid setting when you tell is yes Asus God, make me https the mother flubbed locks you out. I’ve been trying to figure this out 8 months and this is the answer NO do not enable https it will screw you and lock you out of your own network. Man wish I stumble on this article sooner. terrible terrible. That asus great idea but in real world if it anit broke don’t reinvent the wheel.
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Great Article! It is very informative Article.
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