What a horrible
router this one is. The whole GX system is meant to be for snooping on people. Here are my extremely bad review.
1 - no option to reserve IPS internally. Will force you to convert it into a modem and waste power. Even when Wi-Fi bands are disable only the SSID goes private. They still consume power and the real router (as this is now a modem) nearby will have less range as this modem is emitting same 2.4 + 5ghz frequencies.
2 - my friend at isp showed me their Backend panel where all
DNS queries made by customer were visible. So I switched to typical
Google and Cloudflare DNS resolvers added with my
pi-hole ( a local dns resolver to filter ads)
3 - 2 freaking lan ports. In 2022. Wow
4 - ever heard of custom SSID? forget about it now. You pick a phrase eg - home. And the GX will make two networks. Home & Home_5G. No way to make it Home5G without the underscore. If you do the Airtel thanks App can’t recognise the network and all settings via app don’t work.
5 - there is a captcha while login in the gateway portal.
6 - GX had new terminology of their on. Every section has an open / close label on top. So weird to read ‘open’ my wireless. ‘Close’ my
mac filtering
😕