New ASUS wireless router has Bittorrent and hard drive built in

August 10th, 2006

This is the router for the avid software/TV/music/movie pirate. Not that we’d condone such behaviour. Just sayin’…The ASUS WL-700gE includes a 160GB 3.5″ hard drive as well as a BitTorrent client that can keep those downloads going while your PC is switched off. Because the Bittorrent client is actually embedded in the wireless router, the BitTorrent transfers don’t go over WiFi, which means your WiFi LAN speeds won’t be compromised by heavy P2P traffic. The hard drive is also shared as a home file server and can stream videos to Viiv PCs wirelessly…” (Read full article here)

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