Now this is where the excitement comes in. Once you get it all setup you can go into the app and configure more settings. There is even a WIFI analyzer built right in that will help speed up the connection by looking at the other WIFI signals nearby and finding a less congested WIFI channel. Its automatic. My old one you would have to login to the web interface and manually select the WIFI channels you wanted after doing your own analysis using a separate app and hope you got it right. This is automatic and super simple. Now on top of that you can do a security check and it will check for open ports, back doors and other things that it can optimize automatically. The only notice I got was that my SSID and admin password were the same at the time of setup. I changed that and its now super secured.
The app also tells you what devices are currently connected and how much they are using in bandwidth which is perfect for a family so if you have a kid that is downloading something while your watching a show you can boot him off. Or is your roommate hogging all the bandwidth boom they are booted hahaha.
There are so many features in the app and web portal I a just surprised. The one last thing I will write about is the WIFI signal strength setting. Not that I am going to change this in my house because there is no one super close to me but if you live in an apartment or super close to another house you can changed the distance the signal transmits. This is helpful if you want to be super cautious about people trying to hack your signal. Honestly I am pretty amazed at this "off brand" routers capabilities built in and the speed at which the portal operates and how fast the signal is.
For the sake of being picky and trying to find a negative or something I would like I would say it would be nice if there was a speedtest built into the app or web portal. This way you could test the speed at which the router is getting internet from the modem to diagnose and resolve any WIFI issues or distances from the router. As most people might know the 5Ghz frequency is the fastest but doesn't transmit as far so you have to take into consideration if you are really far away from the router your speeds might not be as fast as you hope. Having a built in speed test would tell you what your speed is at the source and then you can either troubleshoot or figure out if your connected device is having WIFI issues or just has an outdate not AC WIFI card.